University of North Texas Murphy Enterprise Center announces winners...

DENTON , Texas - Nature's Freedom Wildlife Sanctuary, a non-profit animal rescue and rehabilitation organization created by three UNT students, will receive $25,000 as the winner of the 2008 New Venture ...

Community briefs Nov. 19, 2008

A birthday card shower is planned for Victor Marburger, who turns 96 on Nov. 30. He is a 1936 Pennsylvania State University alumni and was a soccer player.

Ginkgo can't prevent Alzheimer's

CHICAGO: The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans.

Windpipe transplant with stem cells

LONDON: Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

Report shows state laws need strengthening to deal with human trafficking

On November 17, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte released the Office of the Attorney General's 2008 Human Trafficking Report.

Munson biographer receives international book award

More than 120 years ago, Texas horticulturalist and grape grower T.V. Munson saved the European wine industry from its last great phylloxera plague.

Liz McCraw named Dean of Enrollment Management; Camille Phelps is new Dean of Students

DURANT, Okla. -- Liz McCraw has been named Dean of Enrollment Management and Camille Phelps Dean of Students at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Rap producer 'Suge' Knight faces Vegas drug, battery charges

Marion Knight is facing criminal charges in Las Vegas, stemming from an incident in which police found the hip hop mogul allegedly beating his girlfriend just off a busy thoroughfare.

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

Jay Neugeboren book signing

S Best Bet - Jay Neugeboren: One of our most interesting, if undersung writers, Neugeboren has written young-adult fiction, a book about his brother's schizophrenia and, now, `1940,' a novel about Adolf ...