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Denison ISD is retesting students whose STAAR tests were lost by the testing company last month, but if kids can't make it this week there will be another opportunity in December.

A victory of sorts for supporters of UT Austin President Bill Powers : Efforts to forcibly remove him today have seemingly been derailed, as he reached an agreement to step down on June 2, 2015.

Tandem protein mass spectrometry is one of the most widely used methods in proteomics, the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions.

Bill Powers, President of the University of Texas at Austin, welcomes guests to the discussion panel, LBJ and MLK:Fulfilling a Promise, Realizing a Dream, held at the the Civil Rights Summit at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.

Good afternoon! Here are some stories for you to peruse on this lovely Wednesday: 1. A Tyler resident received a token of appreciation from the president while on vacation in Colorado on Tuesday night.

Yesterday we published an article about anAustralian study claiming that children of same-sex parents are healthier.

It is 1,825 miles from New Haven, Conn., to Austin, Tex., which typically means 30 hours of driving and three nights in motels, not an easy trip for anyone.

University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa on Monday attributed his recent request that University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers resign or be fired to " acknowledged a longstanding tension between his office, Powers and the board of regents.

A former Mansfield High School student has started an online petition demanding town Superintendent Brenda Hodges resign.

A Greenville man accused of causing a crash that killed a Paris man last fall is requesting a bond reduction.

A registered sex offender, accused of exposing himself at a Hugo shopping center, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday.

Texas has provided a fertile atmosphere these past five years for business prosperity and economic growth.

Evans is a professional ballerina and pre med student at the University of Texas, Austin.

There is no contemporary songwriter more prolific in articulating the highs and lows of young love than Taylor Swift .

A Gainesville teacher was selected to attend "Teaching the American Literary Tradition," a professional development institute sponsored by Humanities Texas, the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin and the Harry Ransom Center.

Fifty-two years ago, the gods of good fortune arranged the chance meeting of two young university graduates: Donna from the University of Texas/Austin and Jerry, from California Institute of Technology/Pasadena.

With a Board of Regents vote looming on Thursday, the most supporters of William C. Powers Jr. can hope for is to delay his departure, not avoid it.

An important and useful property for many optical systems is linearity. Essentially it is why light passing through glass is the same when it exits as when it enters the material.

Dan C. Stanzione Jr. has been named executive director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin.