Coliform bacteria live in the nutrient-rich environment of animal intestines. Many species fall into this group, but the most common species in mammals is Escherichia coli, usually abbreviated E. coli. A typical human can easily have several trillion...

Coliform bacteria are the commonly-used bacterial indicator of sanitary quality of foods and water. They are defined as rod-shaped Gram-negative organisms which ferment lactose with the production of acid and gas when incubated at 35-37°C. Coliforms...

Fecal coliform bacteria, found in human and animal waste, has grown to unsafe levels in some Terrebonne and Lafourche parish area bayous.The bacteria get into local waterways because of nearby cattle farms, the high number of nutria that live in marshes and bayous, and from...

A few showers returned to parts of waterlogged Texas on Sunday as divers resumed searching the swollen Trinity River for a man missing since his raft capsized.Teams on the Trinity had shifted their work from a rescue mission to a search for the body of...

The sky was mercifully clear over much of Texas on Saturday after three weeks of drenching rain, as search teams combed the swollen Trinity River for a missing rafter.The death toll from storms that have battered Texas since last month climbed to 15 with the...

Two people, including a boy who was swept from his father's arms by the fast-moving currents of the Brazos River, were found dead as the heavy rains that have pounded parts of Texas for weeks were leaving the state Friday.The four-day search for 6-year-old Cesar...