Something stinks in the Department of Criminal Justice, and it’s a lot more than VitaPro. A special report on the worst state scandal in decades.
Nothing about Lyle Lovett suggests he’d ever make it big. That’s precisely why he did.
After nearly fifty years of working Matagorda Bay, Vernon Bates could soon watch his business shut down for good—and so could the thousands of other shrimpers who make their living on the Gulf Coast.

After ruling the state for a century, Texas Democrats were gradually reduced to irrelevance. Is the reawakening at hand?
For the residents of a tiny Panhandle town, a horrific accident at the State Fair fifty years ago reverberates still—and will haunt them forever.
Galveston native Tilman Fertitta made his share of enemies when he was building his seafood empire in the eighties. These days, though, he’s winning over his hometown, and he’s doing it by taking on the island’s most influential family.
The shocking and sad story of the East Texas kids who beat a horse to death just for the thrill of it.

