Month: August 2012

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ A jury is to receive the case against a suburban North Texas high school teacher accused of having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home. Closing arguments are set [Read More…]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ Anthrax experts and veterinarians are warning ranchers to watch their herds for sudden deaths after more than 100 animals died in anthrax outbreaks on ranches in Colorado and Texas in [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ Dallas-area officials have launched an aerial assault on the mosquito population in the hope of ending a West Nile virus epidemic. That epidemic has sickened at least 230 Dallas County residents and [Read More…]

CUERO, Texas (AP) _ A Texas jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a Union Pacific worker who sued the railroad after claiming he was infected with West Nile virus while on the job. A [Read More…]

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) _ A suburban Dallas boy has been barred from playing  peewee football because the league says he’s just too big at nearly 300 pounds. Mesquite Pee Wee Football Association President Ronnie Henderson [Read More…]

NEW YORK (AP) _ A Texas man charged with plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States will have to wait until next year for his New York trial. An October trial date [Read More…]