9-14-05 - At least 53 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the New Orleans area have died since coming to Texas, medical examiners said Wednesday. In Harris County, which includes Houston, most of the ...

9-14-05 - Texas' highest criminal appeals court on Wednesday refused to consider the case of a Houston woman convicted of killing her cheating husband by running over him in a hotel parking lot after...

9-14-05 - Southwest Airlines has canceled all service to Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans with no immediate schedule for returning. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines had been the busiest ...

9-14-05 - Emergency crews have removed a suspicious object that prompted the evacuation of several buildings at Tinker Air Force Base. Officials say the device was found today by an employee ...

9-14-05 - Powered by a new state law, the Dallas city attorney's office has sued five spas, bathhouses and tanning salons for promoting prostitution and giving rubdowns without a license.

9-14-05 - A federal agency has said that operators of the Longhorn pipeline cannot delay indefinitely a mandated inspection of the 700-mile gas line. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety ...

9-14-05 - A sanitation worker sorting through debris at a city-owned landfill found the body of a woman inside a suitcase Tuesday, authorities said. Assistant Police Chief Thomas Esparza said the death...

9-13-05 - A man found dead along a highway in Bonham had been in the Fannin County jail a few days before. Tx-Dot workers found the body of 55-year-old Richard Chisom late Tuesday afternoon ...

9-13-05 - A Sherman family is living in conditions that sound more like New Orleans than Texoma. Raw Sewage is standing both inside and outside their home, and neighbors and city officials call it a health ...

9-13-05 - An Oklahoma company's plan to drill natural gas wells in Wyoming is drawing criticism from environmentalists. Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy is proposing to drill up to 1,250 gas wells...

9-13-05 - Tuesday is an historic day for Denison as a marker is dedicated honoring the city's education and civil rights struggles. Terrell High School was the last African American school in the city ...

9-13-05 - Texas schools won't get federal emergency funds to pay for additional teachers and textbooks to accommodate students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, according to a memo released by the ...

9-14-05 - A proposal to increase state fuel taxes was overwhelmingly defeated Tuesday. 87 percent of voters said no to a proposed 5-cent per gallon hike in gasoline taxes and 8-cents on diesel fuel.

9-13-05 - Six Flags Inc. is closing its Six Flags AstroWorld theme park at the end of the year and is looking for a buyer for the 109-acre site that sits near Reliant Park, Houston's entertainment district ...

9-13-05 - This past weekend was the first one where you could buy beer and wine in Sherman. That's good news for those tired of driving out of town but bad news for Denison business. It's the day they had ...

9-13-05 - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Monday she wants more of the costs of educating schoolchildren displaced by Hurricane Katrina covered by the federal government, some education requirements ...

9-13-05 - A judge has thrown out a slander lawsuit accusing the former wife of President Bush's brother of spreading rumors that Neil Bush fathered a child out of wedlock. State District Judge Randy...

9-13-05 - The number of Hurricane Katrina refugees in shelters statewide decreased Monday as officials worked to move people into more permanent temporary housing by the weekend. On Monday...

9-13-05 - Unlike last year, condemned Texas inmate Frances Newton can't count on the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to spare her from the death chamber Wednesday. The panel, in a 7-0 vote Monday...

9-12-05 - While the hunt for an escaped inmate from Marshall County enters it’s 2nd week, authorities are explaining why local police were not contacted in the hours after the escape was discovered.

9-12-05 - Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president," three days after losing his...

9-12-05 - Here in Texoma, the Red Cross is stretched to the max caring for more than 180 evacuees in Grayson and Cooke Counties alone. Currently, they are running short on manpower and are in ...

9-12-05 - A large portion of Los Angeles was blacked out Monday when electrical power was lost. The power got knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. after two power surges. Traffic lights throughout ...

9-12-05 - The family of a mentally handicapped woman in Bryan County says she had been found and is OK. 49-year-old Vickie Slover is also a deaf mute. She drove off Saturday and hadn't been seen since.

9-12-05 - With the bang of a gavel, the Senate opened confirmation hearings Monday on the chief justice nomination of John Roberts, a young conservative who could shape the Supreme Court for a generation.