Associated Press - July 1, 2009 7:05 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A 4-time world champion rodeo clown has been sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution for...

Associated Press - July 1, 2009 4:25 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is investigating its joint raid with Fort Worth police on a gay bar that left one man...

Associated Press - July 1, 2009 6:55 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A special session of the Texas Legislature is in full swing. Lawmakers convened the special session Wednesday and...

Associated Press - July 1, 2009 6:35 PM ET MONAHANS, Texas (AP) - Two former Texas Youth Commission administrators accused of sexually abusing teen inmates will be in court later this...

Associated Press - July 1, 2009 6:35 PM ET McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement with the U.S. State Department that would allow citizens...

Cycling may be safer than gardening, but what about sheep herding? Image credit: Sami Cyclists find safety in numbersLloyd has noted before that it is , and there is evidence to suggest that . Now Chris Peck, Chairman of the

Image via Ok. Let's get down to a problem issue in green tech: Designing and manufacturing ugly junk that no one will buy, unless as a novelty and then never use. And what's worse, is making it seem like it'll

Photo via @ flickr There's no better way to soak up a country than by bike: It's quicker than walking, greener than just about every other form of transportation, and you get to see towns, scenery, and people that you'd

photo: via FlickrWe've got some fresh stuff cooking up in the TreeHugger Nerd Labs, and as you may have noticed, we're trying out a new layout for our posts today. Sporting a two column design with more breathing room for

Photo via Japan Pitches High Speed Rail to the USEver since Obama announced in the US, speculation has run wild about how they'll be executed. The a while back, but many details remain to be decided—perhaps most significantly, which high

Photo via During the month of July, the (NERC) is going to start up "cyberwar games" with utilities to test out the security of the power grid in general, with an eye on security issues for the smart grid. There

Photo: Emdesa.com.ar.Even though this would be obsolete if and were extended worldwide, truth is in Latin America and in many developing countries those things are far from becoming a reality.So meanwhile, in places without smart energy regulation or without the

Photo credit: Amazing Treat MachineYour pooch may be smarter than the average dog—canine Mensa material, to be exact—but the premise for the is so simple that even the dumber-than-dirt dog will get it: Tennis ball goes in, tennis ball and

photo: via flickrThere's no doubt that stores a huge amount of greenhouse gases and as the planet warms and the permafrost thaws the climate change impact could be huge. Well, according to a new study in (via

Image via HP, Lenovo and Dell are in the hot house with Greenpeace, who shows them as failing to make any real improvements since the last go-round on the group's greener electronics guide. They each get slapped on the wrist

Flickr user On Monday, New Yorkers riding the subway to work were met with a costlier spin of the turnstile: a 12 percent increase in their fares, , as the Metropolitan Transit Authority copes with a .But how does the

Marie Antoinette found the consumption at Versailles to be a bit conspicuous, so she tended to retire to her modest little pile in the woods, the to do her own social networking. I loved this library ladder/ stairway that appears

photo: via flickrWith the just passed in the House, let's look at what has to say about how well the G8 countries, plus five developing nations are doing in terms of climate change policy:...

Photo via An alarming new study has found that between 2010 and 2030, the US will spend an estimated record-breaking $23 trillion on . The report found that for the first time, the US spent over $1 trillion on fossil

image: Abu Dhabi's can stick another green feather in its cap. The under-construction "carbon neutral" city in the desert will host the recently-formed . The city beat out locations in Germany, Austria and Denmark for the honor, and is the