Updated: 9:05 AM 9-19-05 - Premier Parks went on a shopping spree in the late 1990s that would be the envy of any fun-lover. Among the items: Elitsch Gardens Amusement Park in Denver, Waterworld USA ...

Updated: 8:30 AM 9-19-05 - For the first time since New Orleanian Rochelle Hart and her family fled Hurricane Katrina's wrath for shelter in Houston, she didn't stand in line to fill out seemingly endless forms for housing, financial ...

Updated: 9:36 AM 9-19-05 - There are 16,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees staying in 145 shelters in Texas, according to the most recent figures from the state Division of Emergency Management. State officials say ...

Updated: 8:22 AM 9-19-05 - For about 18 months, a gay burglary convict was sold as a sex slave and repeatedly raped behind bars while prison officials ignored his pleas for help, he says. The ACLU sued on Johnson's ...

Updated: 9:02 AM 9-19-05 - America's system of colleges and universities is famously decentralized, producing experimentation and variety, but making it hard to tackle big-picture issues such as ...

Updated: 8:14 AM 9-19-05 - Three killings were under investigation after a 13-year-old girl was found stabbed to death at home and two more bodies were discovered in a burned car in this rough border city, authorities said ...

Updated: 9:14 AM 09-19-05 – Cheerleader Jordan Page of Dickson was killed Friday Night on her way to the Dickson-Sulphur football game. The accident happened around 7:30 on highway 199 near Providence Road.

Updated: 3:23 PM 9-16-05 - The Choctaws have come through in a big way in their effort to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. Chief Gregory E. Pyle has presented a check for $443,911.33 to representatives of ...

Updated: 9:51 PM 9-16-05 - KXII first reported several weeks ago about a group of Denison students who came down with a form or staph infections. Now it is spreading to other schools in Grayson County.

Updated: 2:54 PM 9-16-05 - Average honey bees were responsible for attack on a Pontotoc County man three weeks ago. 84-year-old Joe Daniel was stung over 100 times by a swarm of bees while he was fishing ...

Updated: 1:34 PM 9-16-05 - Americans across the country joined Friday in a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for victims of Hurricane Katrina, looking for lessons in the vast suffering and seeking the strength to ...

Updated: 1:31 PM 9-16-05 - A family of five thought missing from Ardmore has now been found with the help of the Ardmore School District. KXII reported Thursday that 26-year-old Pedro Mata of Duncan had gone to visit...

Updated: 10:29 AM 9-16-05 - TXU Electric Delivery crews are close to restoring electric service to a critical coal port, International Marine Terminal, in Myrtle Grove, Plaquemines Parish. International Marine Terminal is located

Updated: 8:57 AM 9-16-05 - Higher education leaders selected a vendor and approved funding Thursday to create a Web-based system in which students can track their progress toward meeting college entrance ...

Updated: 8:45 AM 9-16-05 - Gas prices continue to fall below $3 per gallon as disrupted refineries and oil pipelines get back online after Hurricane Katrina, according to a weekly AAA Texas gasoline price survey ...

Updated: 8:46 AM 9-16-05 - An unlicensed Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of signing preprinted prescriptions for motorized wheelchairs and subsequently cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of nearly ...

Updated: 8:32 AM 9-16-05 - A few dozen refugees who watched President Bush's speech to the nation about Hurricane Katrina Thursday said they felt slighted because he never visited the shelter where they're staying ...

Updated: 8:47 AM 9-16-05 - The Peaux Boys, a blues band formed out of two displaced New Orleans musicians, rocked a RiverWalk British pub Thursday night with sounds that made the Crescent City famous.

Updated: 8:29 AM 9-16-05 - Officials in the now-defunct Wilmer-Hutchins school district deliberately inflated student numbers to obtain more federal funds and misused that money to buy items such as furniture and artwork ...

Updated: 7:57 PM 9-15-05 - Ardmore police are concerned that a woman and her three children could be in danger, after they disappeared along with her ex-boyfriend. They say Pedro Mata has a history of domestic violence.

Updated: 7:57 PM 9-15-05 - Hundreds of college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina are finding ways to continue their education, often times with the help of local educators. Three college students from Louisiana...

Updated: 2:47 PM 9-15-05 - Mayor Ray Nagin announced Thursday that large sections of the city will reopen next week, and the historic French Quarter the week after that. "The city of New Orleans ... will start to breathe ...

Updated: 2:38 PM 9-15-05 - Hurricane Katrina has become the most destructive such storm ever to strike the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. Katrina's sustained winds...

Updated: 2:30 PM 9-15-05 - A participant in an East Texas contest popularized in a 1998 documentary film left the event early Thursday, broke into a nearby store, retrieved a shotgun and killed himself, police said.

Updated: 3:12 PM 9-15-05 - The president of the Coalgate Chamber of Commerce goes on trial next week on auto theft charges. Rebecca Washburn was arrested on June 15th on charges stemming from ...