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Blinn College is offering students the chance to study abroad. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Blinn art coordinator Kristi Hext: Press release from Blinn College: Blinn College students can spend New Year

TYLER, Texas (AP) _ A Tyler special education teacher with a passion for music was fatally stabbed Wednesday morning in a Texas high school classroom. Police took a 16-year-old student into custody. Todd R. Henry, [Read More…]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Thursday’s scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Kenneth Mosley. Mosley was to die for the February 1997 shooting death of Garland police Officer Michael [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ British oil giant BP wants more time to implement new safety requirements at its Texas City refinery. That’s where a 2005 explosion left 15 people dead. BP’s request comes after the U.S. [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ Houston police have charged a man arrested in two sexual assaults with killing a woman who was one of six victims dumped near churches in a tight-knit but struggling Houston neighborhood. Police [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ A Texas DNA exoneree expected to receive nearly $4.1 million for his time in prison has sued his attorney, who wants $1 million from the settlement. Steven Phillips filed his lawsuit last [Read More…]

BALTIMORE (AP) _ ACORN has filed a lawsuit against the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman [Read More…]

BANGKOK (AP) _ The world’s largest AIDS vaccine trial is being hailed as a watershed event because it’s the first time an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the virus. The result also surprised scientists [Read More…]

The Bryan City Council took action Tuesday night on a number of items to continue the revitalization of the downtown area. Click to hear the story from WTAW’s Chris Clift: Every member of Council voted [Read More…]

Funeral arrangements for community leader Mell Pruitt have been announced. Visitation is Friday from noon until 6 p.m. at the Brazos Valley African American Museum. Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Margaret [Read More…]