Month: August 2011

HOUSTON (AP) _ Triple-digit, record-breaking heat is smothering Texas and energy providers are asking for conservation as the state sweats in one of the hottest, driest summers ever. Houston’s mercury tied a once-before-seen 109-degree record [Read More…]

ROSHARON, Texas (AP) _ Forty Texas prison inmates make up the state’s first class of seminarians studying to become ministers under a new program operating totally behind prison walls. The inmates all are serving lengthy [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos says charges that have been filed against a Houston pathologist may force autopsies to be re-examined in nine murder trials. The Houston Chronicle reports Lykos’ office [Read More…]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) _ The Texas Rangers are providing no additional information on the condition of a male fan knocked unconscious after falling 21 feet in a stairwell while leaving a game at Rangers Ballpark. [Read More…]