Joe Holley
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Case Open
Nearly three years after attorney Steve Davis’ body was found, his family still doesn’t know how he died. Thanks to an out-of-court settlement with Comanche County, they probably never will.
Is Waco Wacko?
After the latest standoff there�by an armed UFO cultist�you might think so. But on the fifth anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege, the Central Texas community is doing just fine, thank you.
Weekly, Strongly
Why are small-town Texas newspapers thriving? Because unlike big-city dailies, they know their readers, and they give them what they want.
The Doctor Is In
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success.
Tough Nuts to Crack
Marketing the Texas pecan like the California raisin seems to make good business sense. So why do small Texas growers think it’s a shell game?
Reporter
Snyderman
A Holocaust survivor saves a West Texas town (maybe).
Unconventional
From Lee Otis Johnson’s arrest to Ben Barnes’s ascent, 1968 was a hell of a year in Texas.
Hog-tied
The Panhandle goes hog wild.
Heirhart
A San Antonio pilot takes her admiration of Amelia Earhart to another plane.
Guarded
Private prisons lock out the press.
Sleepy Teepees
The last surviving Teepee Motel in Texas.
A Whitman Sampler
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
Belo the Belt
Reading the Arlington newspaper war.
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