No. 1 Seeds Ready To Dance

No. 1 Seeds Ready To Dance Now that the field is set, let's take a look at each of the four No. 1 seeds representing its respective brackets, starting with the North Carolina Tar Heels (32-2), who...

Let's Get Mad

Let's Get Mad March means madness and the opportunity for the best teams in college basketball to go dancing in this year's NCAA championship tournament, which is the most exciting time of the...

New federal study supports long-held claims by Tigua tribe

"A new federal study supports long-held claims by an American Indian tribe that the state of Texas stole 36 square miles of tribal territory in El Paso. The 172-page report, completed last year, was obtained by the San Antonio Express-News under a Freedom of Information Act...

Men carry breast cancer genes, too

Everyone thinks of breast and ovarian cancer and just assumes it's all women. They don't even realize these genes can be inherited from the father's side of the family," said Dr. Mary Daly of Fox Chase...

News is achieving success on Web

NOLA.com top online news site:"A national organization called the Media Audit has just ranked The News’ two Web sites (buffalo. com and buffalonews.com) fourth in the nation among newspaper Web sites, based on the percentage of adults who have visited in the past 30 days....

Texas ghost town is sold on eBay

"A small, uninhabited town in Texas has been sold on the internet auction site, eBay, to a buyer in Italy for a little over $3m (£1.45m). The town, called Albert, is about 100km (62 miles) outside San Antonio and features a schoolhouse, a dancehall and a bar. The town's...

Texas town up for sale on eBay

Bobby Cave, owner of a Texas town called Albert, decided this year to sell. Then a friend mentioned the online auction site eBay Inc. Now, with the click of a mouse — and at least $2.5 million — Albert could be yours....

Tell Congress to keep Amtrak rolling!

Click here for National Association of Rail Passengers Flyer Link to Amtrak Photos As a fairly regular user of Amtrak, I quickly admit that the service often is late, some of the rolling stock shows its age too much, food prices can be piratical and it...

Colombian-Venezuelan crossing opens soon (updated).

For more than a fortnight, Colombia-Venezuela border has been closed at its San Antonio-Tachira crossing.  This closure was made by Colombian local business and transport association to express their...

Man faces execution for being in car with killer

Texas has absolutely the worst death penalty laws in the United States.  It is the only state in the Union that allows the authorities to execute someone even after there is actual evidence to show that the...

WSU, Irish set '09 game in Texas

Jim Sterk, the athletic director at Washington State, considers his counterpart at Notre Dame, Kevin White, a mentor.It was the close relationship between the two men that led to an announcement Friday that the Cougars football team will play the Fighting Irish in 2009 at the...

Texas flooding strands passenger train

Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety.

Texas Hill Country slip-sliding away

BOERNE, TEXAS -- Heavy rains continue to pound the Texas Hill Country today. Boerne, a small texas town 75 miles southwest of Austin and 35 miles Northeast of San Antonio escaped the flooding yesterday that hit...

Texas Flooding Continues, 5 Confirmed Dead -AP

UPDATE: The search continues for Edgar Garcia:"Searchers were using helicopters and cadaver dogs to look for a Central Texas man who remained missing today after his vehicle was swept away by...

Suns' season ends

"t the league's top-class marathoners. The pedigree of the Spurs came shining through again Friday as they closed out the Suns’ season with a 114-106 Game6 victory at AT&T Center to win their Western Conference semifinal series 4-2. As the Suns fell to 6-15 against San...

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