CHICAGO (AP) _ Keep young kids away from the pet food. That advice comes from researchers who are reporting the first known salmonella outbreak in humans linked to dry pet food. Most of the victims [Read More…]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ After a decade of poverty, the Texas Democratic Party’s campaign coffers have been filling for the past five years. That’s as a new generation of affluent Texas Democrats have come [Read More…]
GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Rangers are investigating the fatal shooting of a central Texas man during a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies. The incident happened late Friday in a quiet subdivision near the northern shore [Read More…]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ BP says the cement sealing the busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has hardened as crews prepare for the final phase of drilling a relief well. The oil giant [Read More…]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A recent study says at least 16 percent of Texas inmates are mentally ill, a problem that could grow worse as the state considers reducing beds at psychiatric hospitals. The San [Read More…]
HOUSTON (AP) _ Some Texas legislators are asking state environmental regulators to solve a permit dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that has left some of the nation’s largest oil refineries in operating limbo. [Read More…]
VIDOR, Texas (AP) _ Authorities say a grandfather and his two grandchildren were killed in an early morning fire in Texas. Sgt. Chad Hogan of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office says the bodies of 59-year-old [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Democrats have turned to the courts to challenge the eligibility of new Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell. Birdwell won the central Texas seat in a special election after the retirement [Read More…]
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) _ A polygamist leader in West Texas has agreed to pay child support dating to 2003, when his then-wife left the sect with their eight children. Frederick Merril Jessop, the bishop [Read More…]
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) _ A California company is recalling about 1 million pounds of ground beef products after seven people were sickened by E. coli contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that Valley [Read More…]
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