In June, a multinational expedition, led in part by Shelley Wachsmann of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M, finished a two-week survey of the seas near the Mount Athos Peninsula in Greece. The expedition conducts surveys in the Aegean Sea annually.

Head football coach Dennis Franchione prepares to throw out the first pitch to Gov. Rick Perry before the Atlanta Braves-Houston Astros game Wednesday, in Houston.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage and former U.S. Rep. Gregory H. Laughlin will deliver commencement addresses to Texas A&M summer graduates Aug. 13.

Dr. Steve Holditch, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Chair and head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M, will receive the 2005 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

WASHINGTON - Oil prices could rise as high as $50 per barrel before the year is up, analysts say, as the world's growing thirst for crude stretches supplies thin and uncertainty abounds in petroleum-producing nations.

SAN ANTONIO - Nearly nine months after being rescued from squalid conditions in a New Jersey suburb, seven Bengal tigers finally have some room of their own.

Five people died in two separate fiery plane crashes in North Texas on Wednesday, officials said.

ABILENE (AP) - The parents and grandparents of a 6-year-old boy killed in a mobile home fire started by a methamphetamine lab were indicted on charges of capital murder.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is setting more stringent standards for when it will announce that an initial screening test for mad cow disease has yielded a suspicious result, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - The government on Wednesday refused to override patents on the AIDS drug Norvir, effectively allowing a quintupling of the price to stand despite consumer groups' accusations of price gouging.

DENVER - Kobe Bryant's prosecutors said Wednesday he will be put on trial later this month, even as attorneys for the woman accusing the NBA star of rape suggested her participation is not a sure bet.