An exclusive excerpt from a UT professor's new book on the Juárez drug wars
The shocking story of Austin’s underworld, and how a state bureaucrat got in too deep.
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Steve Benifiel was an old-fashioned outlaw who practically owned the town of Ranger—until he was busted for running one of West Texas’s biggest drug rings.
The way two mysterious deaths affected the town of Childress says a lot about the lure of satanism and the power of gossip.
Whatever else you can say about it, the life and death of Bellaire High School junior Jonathan Finkelman is a tragic tale of drugs, money, race, and MySpace.
At least 90 are already dead as drug lords fight for
routes into Texas.
An Alabama Klansman posing as a folksy Texas novelist almost pulled off the literary hoax of the century.
In sleepy Carthage a rich, haughty widow disappears, and nobody seems to notice. When she turns up dead, everybody seems to feel sympathy for the nice young man who killed her.
When Randall Adams was sentenced to death ten years ago, the Dallas community thought a cop killing had been put to rest. But it hasn’t.