Randy Metcalf/The Explorer , Vickie Corley visits Tohono Chul Park’s exhibit house, where students from Kino School are showcasing their art as part of a summer-long display of student art from three area schools.

• The Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council office will be closed Friday. • The Regional Arts Center will be closed Friday. • The Texarkana Museum Systems will be closed Friday.

Former U.S. Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore delivered the keynote address today at Carnegie Mellon University's 111th commencement ceremony. Gore received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the university.

After 34 years of teaching, Professor Floyd Tesmer has developed the perfect way to position the humanities courses he teaches to mostly working adults at Strayer University. He starts his first class holding a piece of bent and dented chrome railing. "W

( Carnegie Mellon University ) Two groups of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have received a total of $10 million in grants from the US Department of Agriculture to build automated farming systems. One is for apple growers