How Conrado Cantu, the sheriff of Cameron County, lived down to people’s expectations of South Texas law enforcement.

The title of James Evans’s new series of Big Bend photographs is “The Camera Never Sleeps.” It doesn’t matter, apparently, that the photographer does.

Although many people haven’t heard of him, Bishop T.D. Jakes is one of the most famous—and richest— preachers in the country. Whence cometh this man?

Eighty-five incredibly fun things, from movies to museums, that won’t cost you a red cent.

And I am a woman rancher. Here’s what my life is like.

At 11:48 a.m. on August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman began firing his rifle from the top of the University of Texas Tower at anyone and everyone in his sights. At 1:24 p.m., he was gunned down himself. The lives of the people who witnessed the sniper’s spree firsthand would never be the same again.

Teen Boy gets behind the wheel.

Silvestre Reyes has a plan for the border.

What I learned about Iraq from World War II—and what all the president’s men could learn.

The mayor of El Cenizo is
23, is still in school, and lives with his mother. But he’s serious about making life better in his impoverished border hometown.

Hot plates!

William Martin reviews our places of worship.

Does incentive pay for teachers make the grade?

In praise of Mike Judge.

The buzz on mosquitoes.

I’m home. Finally.

South Padre for grown-ups.

G.W. Bailey on being a character actor.

Re-re-re-redistricting.

“They take a shot at the presidency indirectly through me, which is fine . . . It just angers me that our professional journalists have accepted lower standards. I feel like Sergeant Friday: ‘Just the facts, ma’am.’”