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As University of North Texas officials envision the university's future as a national research institution, they hope to bring millions of new grant money to the region to make that happen.

A few years ago, I culled through the schools that participate in athletics in a level below the three DI NCAA classifications.

The dueling news releases emanating these days from the Tier One aspirers look impressive, daunting even: A University of Texas at Arlington professor got a $281,547 four-year National Science Foundation grant for a research project called "NanoDomain Structure and Multifunctional Properties of Polymer Derived Ceramics." With $491,081 from the ...

Texas voters have spoken, and a convincing majority approved a half-billion-dollar fund to enable Texas Tech and six other universities in the state to become national research institutions.

Texas voters approved all 11 proposed constitutional amendments on Nov. 3, including an amendment designed to help the state's public universities become major national research institutions.

By ALEX BRANCH GRAND PRAIRIE - Willis Willis has an idea how he can get his money back from the store clerk who authorities say stole his $1 million winning lottery ticket.'Just get me in a room with him for two minutes,' says the 67-year-old Navy veteran.

Turning out in expected low numbers Tuesday, Texas voters registered strong approval for 11 state constitutional amendments, including measures to create more elite universities and to bolster protections for property owners, according to incomplete returns.

If you adopt a baby from another culture - China, say - should you make the child's birth culture a part of the home and life you provide? What if you're white and adopt a Caucasian child from Russia; are you trying to "pass" as biologically related? Questions like these show how far adoption has come, and how much more complex it's become.

A handful of people in a building that houses a manufacturing lab at the University of Texas at Arlington have been evacuated after a gas alarm went off.

Late last year when Eddie White and Clint Bixler were contemplating installing a new Fuzzy's Taco Shop restaurant in downtown Arlington on East Abram Street - " think Baja-Mex cuisine as opposed to Tex-Mex - " they figured they've have to hit on at least two of three "economic pillars" to make a go of it.

By DAVE MONTGOMERY AUSTIN - Proposals designed to create a network of top-flight universities, toughen protections for property owners and streamline the state's tax appraisal system are among 11 state constitutional amendments to be decided by voters in Tuesday's elections.The amendments are the only statewide issue facing voters, but election ...

During a prolonged standing ovation, the Texas exonerees were brought forward one by one.

Proposition 4, which would establish a $500 million fund for Tier 1 universities, could have a significant impact on South Texas even though none of the local universities would be designated as Tier 1, also known as an emerging research university.

The state confirmed this week what many college campuses have been sporadically reporting: Students are filling up their classrooms at a record pace.

If I loved the Texas Tech Red Raiders, I'd be mad. And not just because Coach Mike Leach blamed a loss on the players' "fat little girlfriends." If I loved the North Texas Mean Green or the UT-Arlington Mavericks, I'd be furious, too - mad enough to go vote now for Proposition 4. A political e-mail making the rounds basically calls Tech, UNT and ...

Garrison Keillor, who canceled an Oct. 7 Bass Hall appearance due to illness, has rescheduled his night as part of the Star-Telegram author series for 7 p.m. Nov.

Austin Police and Texas Department of Public Safety investigators were among thousands of law enforcement officers to play a part in last week's two-day, nationwide bust of members of the Mexican La Familia drug cartel .

In Spanish, "algo" translates into "something." And the menu at Mi Tierra Latin Fusion Restaurant is literally full of algos.

Property tax appraisal regulations, imminent domain, and veterans' hospitals aren't the sexiest issues in the world, but these propositions could result in substantive reforms and real changes for many Texans.

EmpowerTexans.com and Americans for Prosperity both recommend that voters should VOTE NO on Propositions 1, 4, 8, and 9 for the following reasons: Proposition 1 is, "The constitutional amendment authorizing the financing, including through tax increment financing, of the acquisition by municipalities and counties of buffer areas or open spaces ...