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Robots Invade NorthTexas

Palestra.net's Stan Ascher reports from what might be simply the most random competition to be held in a basketball arena.

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Jalisco or Bust

Several Universtiy of North Texas students followed Spanish professor Nicholi Schwab to Jalisco Mexico to help the impovroshied natives improve their lives.

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Disappearing Antiques

Antique stores across the Denton County,TX are disappearing from the landscape. DTV 's Stan Ascher has the story.

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UNT Rocks the Vote

Students are UNT came out for a Rock the Vote event, including numerous political organizations trying to get their message out. Palestra.net's Stan Ascher has the story.

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Students "tire" of obessity

Some students at North Texas want to fight obesity, and they spread their message in a very unique way. Palestra.net's Stan Ascher talked to the group about their mission.

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UNT Holds Vigil For MLK Jr.

A candlelight vigil was held at North Texas in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Palestra.net's Stan Ascher has the story from Denton.

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A Taste of North Texas

The Denton Kiwanis saw a bigger crowd than expected at the 2009 Taste of North Texas. Stan Ascher was on the scene to take it all in.

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New Organ Rocks North Texas

Everything's bigger in Texas and so is UNT's new pipe organ. Palestra.net's Stan Ascher has the story.

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UNT Prepares For Hurricane Evacuations

Volunteers at the University of North Texas are getting ready for a possible wave of evacuees from the path of Hurricane Ike. Student reporter Stan Ascher as the story.

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A night at the bowling alley

Stan Ascher produced this video for North Texas Televison's NT Scene program. It show all the great deals students can find at Brunsick Bowling Center in Denton

Frat brothers knock each other around for charity

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The Sigma Chi's and North Texas held an amateur boxing night and all ticket sales went to a good cause. Palestra.net's Stan Ascher was there to catch all of the action.

Rehab program in Plano offers performance as part of therapy for teens

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TX  — Lisa J’s 14-year-old son Lane overdosed on drugs last October. (She wishes to hide her last name to protect the identity of her son.)

He had been robo-tripping, a fad among teens in which they consume cough syrups that contain the drug Dextromethorphan, like Robitussin DM, in excess. On one occasion, he swallowed 40 capsules, and ended up in the hospital.

North Texas doctor?s heart has gone to the dogs

Protesters line up outside Plano vet's office January 10, 2008.

TX— On a cold afternoon in January, Dr. John Pippin stood with more than 100 people outside a veterinarian’s office in Plano being sprayed with water while protesting the alleged sale of puppy milled dogs by the Petland Corporation.

Said veterinarian, who certifies animals for Petland stores in the area so they can be sold, decided to turn the lawn sprinklers on the crowd of protesters standing in the cold wind.

A Doctor in the Dark

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Think getting a PhD is hard, try doing it while being almost completely blind. NT Daily's Stan Ascher caught up Angela Howard as she accepting yet another award in Austin.

DeSoto TX author details victory over sexual assault

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TX — Cindy Herb says she was nine when she was sexually assaulted while delivering newspapers. "This man came up to me and asked me to help him find his cat, and then, the next thing I knew, I was being raped," she says.

Shortly after that, she said that her father fondled her. But according to Cindy, the worst part of the whole ordeal was being silenced by her mother. "My mother refused to talk about it -- it was like I was at war," she says.

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