Gas from cow manure will be used to heat 11,000 rural Texas homes in the nation's biggest operation to convert manure to methane. An $18.5 million plant in Huckabay Ridge, about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, solves two problems, locally and globally.

By Jim Fuquay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Nov. 6--STEPHENVILLE -- Roughly 10 times a day, a tractor-trailer loaded with almost 20 tons of cow manure rolls up an earthen ramp at the Microgy Inc. facility outside of Stephenville.

By Mark Agee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Oct. 28--Debbie Paganelli graduated from college in the 1970s with a biology degree but had no idea what she wanted to do with it. Her friend's mother was a nurse and referred her for a job in management at a hospital.

STEPHENVILLE, Texas - After demanding money, an alleged bank robber apparently had second thoughts because he asked the teller to call police and said he would be waiting outside on the curb, authorities said.

By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas Apr. 22--The U.S. House of Representatives has approved $10 million to clean up North Bosque River pollution linked to water quality problems in Lake Waco. Under the Water Resources Development Act, the U.S.