Ramit PlushnickMasti

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A paddlefish swims in the recovery tank after being implanted with a radio transmitter at the Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery in Tishomingo, Okla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Energy and Environment

Texas lake welcomes back paddlefish gone for years

Ramit PlushnickMasti · March 5, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, a sea of stacks, pipes and storage tanks are amassed along the Houston ship channel in Houston. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, authority over greenhouse gas permitting ending a lengthy, often bitter battle between the Lone Star State and the federal agency. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

EPA shifts greenhouse gas permitting to Texas

Ramit PlushnickMasti · February 5, 2014 12:07 am

In this Jan. 14, 2014 photo, Irma Myers-Santana, left, and her sister Anna Williamson visit in Williamson's hospital room in Houston. Earlier this month the sisters ended up in the same operating room, each getting one lung from the same donor. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

2 sisters get lung transplants from same donor

Ramit PlushnickMasti · January 23, 2014 3:02 am

Canadian company starts Keystone pipeline in Texas

Ramit PlushnickMasti · January 22, 2014 6:38 pm

$A jar holding waste water from hydraulic fracturing is held up to the light at a recycling site in Midland, Texas. (AP/Pat Sullivan)$ Energy and Environment

More oil and gas drillers turn to water recycling

Ramit PlushnickMasti · November 11, 2013 5:00 am

This undated handout photo provided by the Hornsby family shows JaNae Hornsby. JaNae, who was killed when a tornado struck Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on May 20, 2013, is described by her father Joshua Hornsby as a "special baby" who made friends with everyone she met. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Hornsby Family)

Tornado took town’s youngest as it swept through

Sean Murphy, Ramit PlushnickMasti, Christopher Sherman, David Lieb · May 24, 2013 4:00 am

This photo provided by the McLennan County Sheriff's office shows Bryce Reed in a booking photo on Friday, May 10, 2013. Reed, a Texas paramedic who helped evacuate people on the night of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, has been arrested and charged with possessing a destructive device. It's not clear whether the charge is related to the fire or the explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. last month that killed 14 people. On Friday, May 10, 2013, Texas law enforcement officials launched a criminal investigation into last month's deadly fertilizer plant explosion, after weeks of treating it as an industrial accident. (AP Photo/McLennan County Sheriff's Office)

Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion

Ramit PlushnickMasti, Angela Brown · May 10, 2013 4:00 am

In this image released by the U.S. Coast Guard on Feb. 11, 2013, the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico, Feb. 11, 2013. The Carnival Triumph has been floating aimlessly about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula since a fire erupted in the aft engine room early Sunday, knocking out the ship's propulsion system. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard- Lt. Cmdr. Paul McConnell)

Carnival cancels 12 more cruises on troubled ship

Ramit PlushnickMasti · February 13, 2013 5:00 am

Head of House panel talks security at Houston port

Ramit PlushnickMasti · January 30, 2013 10:06 pm

Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 31, 2012 4:08 pm

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 that doctors at the Houston hospital where Bush has been treated for a month remain âcautiously optimisticâ that he will recover. Still, no discharge date has been set, and McGrath says that doctors are being cautious because at Bushâs age âsometimes issues crop up that are beyond anybodyâs ability to discern or foretell.â(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Spokesman: George H.W. Bush in intensive care

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 27, 2012 3:57 am

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 that doctors at the Houston hospital where Bush has been treated for a month remain "cautiously optimistic" that he will recover. Still, no discharge date has been set, and McGrath says that doctors are being cautious because at Bush's age "sometimes issues crop up that are beyond anybody's ability to discern or foretell."(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Bush spokesman says ex-president’s fever rising

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 26, 2012 5:00 am