July 24, 2008 RSS feed / News

Weaver completes basic training

Air Force Airman Ron K. Weaver has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. More...

Planners talk combining water systems

Members of the North East Texas Regional Water Planning Group (Region D) Wednesday focused on the need for regionalization of small water supply systems, water quality concerns such as the growth of non-native aquatic plants on area lakes, and a re More...

TEXAS TODAY

Rio Grande Valley waits for Dolly's wind and rains to pass before assessing damage: BROWNSVILLE (AP) - Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places an More...

Vast oil and natural gas reserves estimated in Arctic

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some 90 billion barrels of oil and nearly a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas remain untapped under an area north of the Arctic Circle, government scientists estimate, in the largest-ever survey of the area's energy p More...

No plastic bags in LA stores beginning July 2010

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles shoppers soon won't hear the question, "Paper or plastic?" at the checkout line. The City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic shopping bags from stores, beginning July 1, 2010. More...