Betsy Blaney

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Farm bill delay could affect 2015 cotton planting

Betsy Blaney · October 12, 2014 6:24 pm

Texas Tech students protest against ‘rape culture’

Betsy Blaney · October 2, 2014 12:25 am

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2014 file photo, two girls and their dog make their way in a small boat in the flooded ponding area at Album Park in El Paso, Texas. The city experienced heavy overnight rains which flooded streets and caused overflows at collection sites such as Album Park. Texas continues to grind its way out of drought, helped by recent steady rains statewide and in the next few months by an El Nino weather pattern that promises to bring plentiful rain through winter, a National Weather Service forecaster says.(AP Photo/El Paso Times, Victor Calzada, File)

El Nino forecast to help Texas out of drought

Betsy Blaney · September 23, 2014 11:39 pm

Members of the Pecos fire department, with officials from numbering counties and Federal officials, inspect the rising water level on the Pecos River at the Barstow bridge in Ward County, Texas, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/The Odessa American, Courtney Sacco)

Torrential rains have battered West Texas

Betsy Blaney · September 22, 2014 10:34 pm

Lubbock unveils statue of wrongly convicted man

Betsy Blaney · September 17, 2014 10:56 pm

ERCOT: Ample electric capacity for fall, winter

Betsy Blaney · September 2, 2014 7:57 pm

FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, crews from Waste Control Specialists load the first of two containers with low-level radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, into a reinforced 8-inch-thick concrete container at the 90-acre federal dump where it will remain forever, near Andrews, Texas. Regulators have approved allowing depleted uranium to be buried at a West Texas nuclear waste dump site. (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney, File)

Texas regulators OK expanding nuclear waste site

Betsy Blaney · August 20, 2014 9:16 pm

Energy and Environment

Aggressive weed brings woe to Texas cotton growers

Betsy Blaney · July 27, 2014 1:44 pm

Energy and Environment

Texas lawmakers study desalination expansion

Betsy Blaney · July 20, 2014 2:01 pm

FILE - This Dec. 16, 2009 shows death row inmate Hank Skinner in the visiting area of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunksy Unit in West Livingston, Texas. Texas State District Judge Steven Emmert has ruled that Skinner would have been convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two sons in 1993 even if his original defense attorney had introduced DNA test results. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk, File)

Texas judge: DNA unlikely to have changed verdict

Betsy Blaney · July 16, 2014 9:06 pm

This June 10, 2014, handout photo proved by Howard Payne University shows A 1953 Howard Payne University class ring in Brownwood, Texas. An 84-year-old Washington state woman will soon be reunited with her 1953 university class ring after someone found it in a dried-up West Texas lake in March. Elizabeth Clark lost her Howard Payne University class ring in 1954 in Lake Nasworthy near San Angelo when she and her future husband went for a picnic and to wade into the water. (AP Photo/Howard Payne University/Matthew Lester)

Lost for 60 years, ring turns up in dry Texas lake

Betsy Blaney · July 1, 2014 8:55 pm

Energy and Environment

West Nile virus threat for summer in Texas unknown

Betsy Blaney · June 30, 2014 5:59 pm