• High school engineering students in Mansfield developed a working prosthetic hand for a man who lost his fingers in a wood chipper.
  • A San Antonio cemetery threw away Spurs-themed decorations that had been placed on gravesites after the team won the NBA championship.
  • A pregnant elephant at the Houston Zoo was put on a diet to lose five hundred pounds in order to make the birthing process safer.
  • Twenty-year-old West Tawakoni resident Lucy Millsap and her parents took three different top honors at noodling tournaments in Texas and Oklahoma for catching large catfish with their bare hands.
  • An Asian supermarket in Austin faced a civil lawsuit after selling mislabeled packages of bull penis to customers.
  • During an interview with the New York Times, Governor Rick Perry said he was “more Jewish than you think I am.”
  • Fort Worth thirteen-year-old Ansun Sujoe was named co-champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
  • Andrew Chifari, of Dallas, used his Starbucks Rewards card to get a free $54.75 drink, which was served in a 128-ounce vase and, according to ABC News, included “sixty espresso shots, chocolate and white-chocolate syrup, protein powder, whipped cream, caramel and hazelnut drizzles, and nut and cookie toppings.”