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Last Katrina FEMA trailer leaves New Orleans

| |Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to flood.Read more

Galveston group offers Ike high water plaque

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Owners of Southeast Texas structures that survived Hurricane Ike have a mark-the-spot way to remember flooding from the disastrous storm.Read more

Group: Texas lobbyists paid up to $345M last year

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Texas lobbyists collected up to about $345 million to influence lawmakers while the state Legislature was in session last year.Read more

TCU football players among 17 caught in drug sting

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Four Texas Christian University football players were among 17 students arrested Wednesday in a campus drug bust, police said.Read more

TCU football players among 17 caught in drug sting

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Police say four football players are among 17 students at Texas Christian University arrested for selling drugs.Read more

Study finds Texas drought killed 5.6 million trees

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Experts say the 2011 Texas drought has killed about 5.6 million trees in urban areas.Read more

Austin sinkhole could help with runoff study

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

A Central Texas sinkhole that's grown to about 20-feet deep has offered researchers a way to study runoff into the Edwards Aquifer.Read more

Gunman in body armor arrested in Liberty County

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Authorities say an armed Southeast Texas man wearing body armor and claiming to be an anti-government militia member has been arrested in a domestic dispute.Read more

Boy pleads guilty over train-related Dallas death

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Prosecutors in Dallas say a 14-year-old boy faces 30 years in prison over the death of a man allegedly pushed into a moving train.Read more

Gastar leases Bayer property in W.Va. for drilling

|Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Gastar Exploration plans to drill for natural gas on 1,400 acres at Bayer Corp.'s plant site in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle.Read more