Gasoline prices head higher while motorists panic
Analysts say lines mainly due to people topping off their tanks
DATE: Sep 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Rescuers seek anyone left in floodwaters
Beaumont loses water supply
DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Mattis begins sending additional troops to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he has signed orders to begin deploying additional troops to Afghanistan to carry out President Donald Trump’s new war strategy.
Mat...
DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Explosions rock flood-crippled chemical plant near Houston
EPA says smoke is not toxic
DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Governors’ health care plan urges stabilizing markets
COLUMBUS – A bipartisan governor duo is urging Congress to retain the federal health care law’s unpopular individual mandate while seeking to stabilize individual insurance markets as legisl...
DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Federal judge blocks Texas’ tough ‘sanctuary cities’ law
AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked most of Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law that would have let police officers ask people during routine stops whether...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Triceratops skull, skeleton dug up in Colorado
THORNTON – A dinosaur fossil has been discovered in Colorado by construction workers.
The bones and skull of a triceratops were found last Friday in Thornton at the construction...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
25 years after Ruby Ridge standoff, radical movement grows
SPOKANE, Wash. – It’s been a quarter-century since a standoff in the mountains of northern Idaho left a 14-year-old boy, his mother and a federal agent dead and sparked an expansion of radic...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Flood insurance policies plunge in Houston in past 5 years
WASHINGTON – Houston’s population is growing quickly, but when Harvey hit last weekend there were far fewer homes and other properties in the area with flood insurance than just five years a...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Officials take stock of national trail uniting 3 countries
DEMING, N.M. (AP) – Out in the Bootheel near the border fence east of the Big Hatchet Mountains of Hidalgo County, a simple headstone marks the official southern terminus of a trail reaching...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Harvey shows how planetary winds are shifting to create bigger disasters
Meteorologists explain that Hurricane Harvey stalled off the Texas coast because two high-pressure atmospheric masses – huge bookends made out of air – have squeezed it in place, and there h...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Trump: ‘All options are on table’ after North Korea launch
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to reassert an American military threat against North Korea, saying that “all options are on the table” in response to its launch of a miss...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
