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

• Link | http://galvestonhistory.org/

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

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

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

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

• Link | http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/main/default.aspx

AUSTIN, Texas — 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

LIBERTY, Texas — 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

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DALLAS — 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

NEW MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. — 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

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