Article Archive for September 2011
Booker High School had a surprise visitor Friday night at its football game with Hooker, Okla. It was Gabriel Elizondo.
As fires tore through hundreds of Central Texas homes, Austin officials dispatched nearly 200 of their firefighters to help across the region and issued an urgent request Sunday for 25 off-duty firefighters to report to …
U.S. Border Patrol reported seizing close to 7,000 pounds of marijuana over Labor Day weekend.
Fort Bliss will increase its security measures this weekend in response to the Pentagon’s raised security level at military bases nationwide.
Amid one of the worst droughts in Texas history, Sen. Kel Seliger said Wednesday formalizing a statewide water plan needs to be a priority as lawmakers look toward the next legislative session.
A federal agency hopes to create what it says is an unprecedented plan to protect threatened and endangered birds from wind turbines across a broad swath of the United States, from the Coastal Bend to …
Less than a week before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, security concerns forced the cancellation of an American Airlines flight at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Wednesday morning.
Firefighters gained ground Wednesday against one of the most destructive wildfires in Texas history even as the state said the number of homes lost reached almost 800, and an elite search team set out to …
It may be called “water witching,” but Spencer Powell insists there’s no black magic involved in finding water.
Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are siting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother …


