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The Korte Co. won a $21 million U.S. Army contract to design and build an armed forces reserve center in Tyler, Texas, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Officials in Texas from both the agriculture and livestock industries are concerned about a massive drought throughout many portions of the state. Don Teague reports from Bryan, Texas.

Detectives raided the Texas office of one of Michael Jackson's doctors looking for evidence of manslaughter. Ben Tracy reports on what police hoped to find.

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State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in american history to curriculumThe Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God.Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue.Opponents have decried the move as an attempt to insert religious teachings in to the classroom by stealth, similar to the Christian right's partially successful attempt to limit the teaching of evolution in biology lessons in Texas.One of the panel, David Barton, founder of a Christian heritage group called WallBuilders, argues th

Detectives searched the Houston, Texas, medical office of Dr. Conrad Murray on Wednesday for 'evidence of the offense of manslaughter,' Murray's lawyer said. The search warrant 'services part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Michael Jackson,' a Los Angeles Police spokesman said.

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Investigators were searching the Houston, Texas, medical office where Dr. Conrad Murray has a practice Wednesday morning, according to a spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson searched the medical office of his doctor Wednesday looking for 'evidence of the offense of manslaughter,' the doctor's lawyer said. The search warrant was executed in Houston, Texas. Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyer said they were 'caught off guard by this' but they are cooperating.

Detectives searched the Houston, Texas, medical office of Dr. Conrad Murray on Wednesday for 'evidence of the offense of manslaughter,' Murray's lawyer said. The search warrant 'services part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Michael Jackson,' a Los Angeles Police spokesman said.