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Worth its Salt: KFG Resources Expands its Oil Horizons in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin

Voltaire, the great French Rationalist philosopher, described business as “the salt of life”. Perhaps he may have got it backwards – as far as KFG Resources’ (TSX.V:KFG) management is concerned, “salt is the life of business”.

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Ken Masur To Conduct Fort Bend Orchestra

Bring the entire family and join the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra at the Stafford Centre on Sunday, December 2 at 2:00 p.m. as we ring in the holiday season with a concert of familiar favorites, including selections from The Nutcracker and Handel's Messiah.

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Texas Man sets record by sitting with 87 rattlers

Another day, another bizarre world record for Jackie Bibby, the "Texas Snake Man" who after spenting about 45 minutes in a bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes once again broke his own Guiness World Record.

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Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra Presents 'New World'

The Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present "From the New World to the 'New World'" – an exciting collection of 20th century music – on Sunday, October 28 at 2:00 p.m. at the beautiful Stafford Centre under the baton of Guest Conductor, Viswa Subbaraman.

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AT&T Investing Nearly $1.25 Billion in Texas in 2007

AT&T Inc. announced a total planned investment of nearly $1.25 billion in the Texas network in 2007. This will bring AT&T's two-year investment in Texas to nearly $3 billion and further demonstrates AT&T's commitment to providing Texans with more choices and quality communications services.

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Bush asserts emergency declaration before Dean Hurricane

U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday approved a pre-landfall emergency declaration for Texas to provide federal help if the state is hit by Hurricane Dean, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

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Hurricane Dean to Reach Category 4 or 5 Over the Weekend

AccuWeather.com® forecasters predict that Hurricane Dean will continue to intensify over the weekend to a Category 4 or 5 storm.

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NASA helps Texas respond to most widespread flooding

NASA aircraft equipped with a state-of-the-art sensor provided emergency response officials with critical soil moisture data for several regions across Texas that were threatened by flooding. NASA responded to the heavy rains and flooding in Texas by redirecting a NASA research aircraft, the P-3B, to Texas after it completed an interagency project in Oklahoma.

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DeLay Wins Round in Texas Court

The state's highest criminal court on Wednesday refused to reinstate a dropped conspiracy charge against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, The Associated Press reported.

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NAFTA Superhighway Has Giuliani As Key Player

A NAFTA superhighway extends North through Texas into Oklahoma and Colorado, and it's a four lane huge superhighway.

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Texas Mother and Four Daughters Found Hanged in Home

Police in Texas say a mother and her four children were found hanging in the closet of their mobile home Tuesday. Another sad and tragic story that sounds like Dena Schlosser and Andrea Yates.

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Two reasons never mentioned for housing cirisis

Are we subjects or citizens? Something has to done about defective, atrocious, uninhabitable housing; and stop the homebuilders who shamefully erect them, ignore new homeowners' complaints, change the company name, and go right on building.

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