University of North Texas News

The Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office says a recent DNA test to identify the body of a homicide victim found 30 years ago in the Snake River didn't result in any matches.

The Ysleta Independent School District has spent six years and thousands of dollars in taxpayer money disputing a claim that they owe teachers approximately $6.7 million in back pay.

After a boom in enrollment at local universities last year, several new apartment complexes are in the works and developers are catering to the college crowd.

The current controversy over the fate of the former Fairhaven Retirement Home - going so far as some denying its provenance to renowned Texas architect O'Neil Ford - has at least one council member looking for a better way forward.

Find the collection online All 414 photographs from Mike Cochran's collection of Waco images circa 1950 can be viewed on The Portal to Texas History website at texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/PCMC. To share information on the photographer or subjects pictured, click on the "feedback form" link on the page for each online image or contact ... (more)

AS IF the sleep-deprived husks of humanity otherwise known as new parents didn't have enough to worry about, new research has emerged to plunge them further into a baby-brain stupor about how to get their screaming bundles of joy off to sleep.

Forty-two of the 827 seniors preparing to graduate next week are either a twin or a triplet, and that makes the Class of 2012 a likely Guinness World Record holder for the most multiple birth students in a single graduating class.

For many elementary and secondary school students, summer means regular trips to the local swimming pool or water park, the movies, parks and recreation centers -- not the library or bookstore.

DENTON , Texas -- Vincent Falsetta, professor in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, and Miroslav Penkov, an assistant professor in the UNT Department of English, have been selected as faculty fellows in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2012-13 academic year.

It's the sound that can frustrate any parent, but now a new study may have you changing your mind about the "controlled crying". controversy.

Denton County voters will decide whether Pat Fallon or Amber Fulton will lead the newly created District 106 in the Texas House of Representatives.

Myra Crownover wants another term in the Texas House of Representatives to serve District 64, while challenger Mike Brucia says it's time to put a new face in Austin.

A person familiar with the decision says UT Arlington has accepted an invitation to become a non-football playing member of the Sun Belt Conference in 2013.

Christine Beutner looks around Cecile Johnson's classroom. It's a big room, with several rows of risers curving away from the rear wall.

Last weekend's Camp David summit among the Group of Eight leaders was widely viewed as a call for economic stimulus and something of a rebuke for austerity crusader German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Who's Who Publishing Co. on Thursday will unveil its inaugural edition of Who's Who in Black Dallas at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas.

Dr. Charles O. Onstead , died in his home on the 18th of May 2012, after a brief illness.

Neo-Soul Artist Andrea Lawrence, or "ANDE'", to all who warmly know her, has made it her personal goal to revive the neo-soul music world with her sultry-rich vocals and piercing lyrics.

"What we've seen over the last several months is an improving picture," said Terry Clower, director of the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research.

Vish Prasad recently resigned as the University of North Texas' vice president of research and economic development and senior vice provost Geoff Gamble was named to the position Tuesday.