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Tourniquets make comeback with police

HOUSTON – Rushing into a Houston home, police officer Austin Huckabee encountered a drunken, combative man bleeding profusely on the kitchen floor. He quickly realized the blood was spurting...

DATE: Jul 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Is a forest the answer to curbing pollution?

A partnership in Texas explores the possibility

DATE: Jun 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Cities try to restore wild urban rivers

HOUSTON – The Buffalo Bayou is everything Houston city planners once despised: The small river that winds through glassy downtown hi-rises has gentle curves, a slow, meandering current and n...

DATE: May 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

National plan’s health may hinge on Texas

HOUSTON – Sara Rodriguez recently received a $4,000 bill for a six-hour emergency room visit to treat a fever. She says she can’t pay, but she’s also not planning to buy health insurance thr...

DATE: Mar 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A way to cut fracking radioactivity?

HOUSTON – Researchers believe they have found an unlikely way to decrease the radioactivity of some hydraulic fracturing wastewater: Mix it with the hazardous drainage from mining operations...

DATE: Jan 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Sentence in Texas teen’s fatal DWI wreck stirs ire

HOUSTON – “Affluenza,” the affliction cited by a psychologist to argue that a North Texas teenager from a wealthy family should not be sent to prison for killing four pedestrians while drivi...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wintry storm threatens holiday travels

A large storm already blamed for at least eight deaths in the West slogged through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest on Sunday, leading to hundreds of flight cance...

DATE: Nov 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Frackers take to recycling water

Popular recent change reduces use of freshwater, waste creation

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Military base shootings shake sense of security

Armed guards stand at the gates. IDs are needed to pass through electronic barriers. And uniformed members of the American military – trained and battle-tested to recognize the enemy and kil...

DATE: Sep 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas abortion providers fear shutdowns

Some clinics won’t be able to afford new requirements

DATE: Jul 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mayor of Oklahoma town familiar with tornadoes

MOORE, Okla. – Glenn Lewis looks out at a pile of twisted metal, broken wood, smashed vehicles and torn school books. This is what is left of one of the two schools in his Oklahoma town that...

DATE: May 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World