By Bryan French, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Apr. 15--This is Texas, the land of Cowboys and Rangers and Mavericks, a rugged land filled with cattle and sun and wind and tumbleweeds and dirt. Lots of dirt.

By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Feb. 16--Thousands of acres of federal forestland -- including about 4,800 acres in Texas -- could be sold to pay for a program that aids rural roads and schools.

(AP) Highlights of the hundreds of reports of debris from the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia. Texas• Remains that a hospital employee identified as charred torso, thigh bone and skull on a rural road near other unspecified debris in Hemphill, east of Nacogdoches.