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  • Squatters in Texas Town Use Arcane Law to Claim Vacant Homes

    Published January 05, 2012

    District Attorney in Tarrant County, Texas, says crooks are trying to use a decades old law to conduct a new scam. 

  • Horse Slaughterhouses Could Return to U.S.

    Published December 23, 2011

    Horse slaughterhouses could soon open back up in the United States. In 2006, Congress ended the funding for inspections of horse slaughterhouses. It had the effect of shutting them down. 

  • High-Tech War Room Trains Security At U.S. Nuke Facility

    Published December 16, 2011

    If you were driving East on I-40 in Amarillo, you might not even notice the large group of buildings set back from the road. Even the name, Pantex, may not ring any bells. But beyond the barbed wire, there’s important work going on, work that is largely out of the public eye. 

  • Texas Town Braces for Battle With Atheists Over Nativity Scene

    Published December 14, 2011

    Henderson County commissioner Joe Hall says he received the shock of his life when he found out a Wisconsin group was demanding that the nativity scene be taken down.

  • It's Your Land: Enormous Pipeline Impacts Thousands of Homeowners in Six States

    Published April 26, 2011

    Walking along with Eleanor Fairchild, it’s easy to see why she and her late husband fell in love with their property in East Texas. It’s more than 300 acres of heavily treed hills and wide open grassy meadows now dotted with wildflowers. It also has a 4 acre lake where Fairchild, in her 70s, still ...

  • Group Says Texas Proposal to Increase Speed Limit to 85 Will Lead to Fatalities

    Published April 14, 2011

    I insurance industry officials say any increase in speed whether it’s on an existing freeway or new one could cause more accidents leading to more injuries and fatalities. 

  • Controversial Texas Government Website Will Stay Up, Amid Objections

    Published March 11, 2011

    A controversial website launched last week by the Texas Department of Agriculture that has been allowing border ranchers and farmers vent frustrations over immigrants – and at times -- advocating violent action against them – won’t be taken down any time soon.

  • Educating Our Children: The Evolution of Home Schooling

    Published February 09, 2011

    Anne Gebhardt’s kids are learning about geography -- in her dining room in Bedford, Texas. It’s not your typical schoolhouse, but it’s one that Gebhardt says is serving her six children well. "We can teach our religious values to our children freely,” says Gebhardt. “We can teach anything that we ...

  • Road to Recovery: What's Working-- Houston Consignment Shop Finds Niche in Down Economy

    Published December 01, 2010

    In this sagging economy, when lots of people are hesitant to part with pennies, more and more people are checking out consignment shops like The Guild Shop.

  • Road to Recovery: What's Working - Wind Turbines

    Published October 27, 2010

    A handful of high tech workers are assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle. It may not look like much now, but soon it will become the finished housing for a wind turbine engine. The group of workers assembling it was hand-picked and trained in Germany by a German company called Nordex. These workers will soon be doing some of the training as Nordex USA expands in Jonesboro where the company plans to add up to 700 jobs in the area by 2014.