An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...

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Spring Branch ISD’s Administrative Building. Two teenage girls accused of plotting a "mass casualty attack" at a Spring Branch school have pled guilty, according to the FBI Houston Division. According ...