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Homeboy Nolan Ryan Wins Auction For Texas Rangers
Former all-star Texas baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan will be leading the state's beloved team, the Rangers, for years to come, now that an investment...
Greener Amtrak Trains Run on Beef Fat in Texas
Amtrak is testing the viability of alternative fuel passenger trains by launching a biofuel pilot program using rendered beef fat. The beef...
Texas Rancher An Unlikely Environmentalist
Ranchers in central Texas aren't known for their fondness for government regulation or the Endangered Species Act. But one rancher — a...
Texas Urban Schools Win $1 Million Education Prize for Third Year
The Aldine Independent School District outside Houston has won the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education, the largest education award in the country, and...
Texas Man Brings Hope to Forgotten Disabled Iraqi Kids
Brad Blauser lives in war-torn Baghdad, where he doesn't earn a paycheck and is thousands of miles from his family. But he has no...
US Restores Texas Wetlands Out of Toxic Stew
More than 2,500 acres of coastal wetlands have been restored and enhanced in Port Arthur, Texas, as a result of a cooperative agreement between...
Texas Legislature Aims for Solar Dominance
The Lone Star State leads the country in wind power. Now Texas aims to ramp up its solar production, too. This...
From Minnesota to Texas, Wind Power Sweeps New Jobs Into Old-tech Towns
Hundreds of workers lost their jobs after the printing press factory closed in Cedar Rapids in 2001. The hulking empty shell sat idle...
Wal-Mart to Purchase Wind Power for Texas Stores
Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Thursday that it had entered into a partnership with Duke Energy to have wind power supply up...
Texas Schools Win $1 Million Prize for Advancing Poor Students
The border city of Brownsville, where nearly all students come from low-income Hispanic families and where 4 in 10 are not native English speakers,...
On Texas Prairie, Wind Power is Resurgent, Boosting Economy
Today, West Texans love the wind! Wind farms are transforming the rural area's economy as well as its treeless horizon, while delivering...
Navy Ship Arrives in Texas for Hurricane Cleanup
Navy sailors on the Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship Nassau answered the call of aid for Galveston shorelines, devastated by Hurricane Ike, arriving on the...
Billionaire Texas Oilman Bets Big On Wind
A legendary Texas oil man is turning to wind power with a plan to spend $10 billion to build the world's biggest wind farm....
Wind Power Lifts Dying Texas Farm Town
Roscoe, a small farm town in Texas transforms into Wind City U.S.A. — collectively one of the biggest wind farms in the nation and...
Nearly Wiped Out Decades Ago, Bighorn Sheep Thriving in Texas
Bighorn sheep have flourished in the rough and dry West Texas mountains going back to prehistoric times. But unregulated hunting and exposure to disease...
Expanding Coverage to More Pregnant Women in Texas
From the Student Operated Press comes this good news for low-income pregnant women. A U.S. program expands access to prenatal health care in nine...
13-year-old Successfully Undergoes World-First Treatment to Cure Rarer-Than-Rare Wild Syndrome
A 13-year-old has become the first in world history to successfully undergo liver surgery for Wild Syndrome, a condition so rare it's only been...
Good News in History, May 16
306 years ago today, Maria Agnesei was born in Milan. She is the first woman in the Western World ever to be appointed as...
Good News in History, May 12
565 years ago today, Jodhpur, the "Sun City," the "Blue City," was founded amid the stark lands of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India....
World’s Oldest Bird Named Wisdom Lost Her Mate But is Courting New Suitors at 72
The world's oldest bird may have lost her mate, but she's now courting new suitors in her 70s.
The Laysan albatross named Wisdom, was photographed...