Big Spring resident Margie Ward is 95 years old. A few weeks ago, this great grandmother earned her GED through Howard College; the equivalent of the high school diploma that she never got.
Over the last five years, the State of Texas has only averaged about 10 infant botulism cases a year. The City of Midland says at this point in the year they are unable to determine if this is an uptick in cases.
Tera Glover graduated and moved to Midland to start running the neurologic music therapy program at Bynum in August 2002. The first music therapy program at Bynum initially just had four or five students. But over the last 22 years, Tera has grown the program and helped hundreds of students.
Across the United States, there are around 20,000 students who are deaf making it the second most common disability in schools.Yet only three colleges in America are designed for deaf or hard-of-hearing students.
6.1 percent or 466 million people across the world are either deaf or have trouble hearing. While that number may seem large it is not something we think about every day.