Vote clears way for Senate debate on healthcare

| |Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

All 60 Democrat and independent votes were needed to advance the bill.Read more

Fall Sports Blowout levels playing field for disabled athletes

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Able-bodied athletes will square off against disabled athletes in Denton.Read more

UNT regents approve M.D. school at Fort Worth's health science center

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The head of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association says the group will monitor the development of the program.Read more

UT-Arlington bans smoking effective in August 2011

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The ban takes effect Aug. 1, 2011. The university is the first four-year college in the region to forbid smoking campuswide.Read more

Senate on verge of healthcare debate

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The crucial first test vote on whether to continue debate on the bill is scheduled for 7 CST tonight.Read more

Senate healthcare bill hides winners, losers in fine print

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Chiropractors get a lift in the Senate healthcare bill, thanks to a senator from the state practitioners consider the birthplace of their profession: Iowa.Read more

Rancorous abortion dispute could dismantle fragile political coalition

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

One Catholic official says Reid's bill is the worst he's seen so far.Read more

Illegal immigrants would be barred from healthcare aid under Senate leaders proposal

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Hispanics in the House of Representatives are furious about the proposal.Read more

Cornyn, Hutchison ready to vote 'no'

|Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Texas' senators, Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, are standing fast against Senate Democrats' $849 billion healthcare plan and, along with all the other GOP senators, say they will vote "no" on a crucial procedural vote tonight.Read more

4 patients in hospital had drug-resistant flu

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

One patient survived; all are believed to have caught the flu at the hospital.Read more