Meanwhile, in Lufkin… November Edition
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News’s police blotter.
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News’s police blotter.
Armey, who has led FreedomWorks, one of the most influential tea party groups, since 2004, resigned Monday in an email.
Texas business tax incentives, yay or nay? What people are saying about the lengthy front-page New York Times investigative piece by Louise Story.
Robstown retirees have been exhibiting their rock dinner spread since 1983. It never gets old.
Cruz's Thursday speech on "Opportunity Conservatism" gave political journalists yet another, er, opportunity to speculate about his longterm political plans.
And he wouldn't have it any other way. The Humble congressman is an “oratory throwback,” infamous for giving a record number of speeches in the House.
Rob the Original, San Antonio’s infamous hair artist, strikes again, paying tribute to Texas A&M star quarterback Johnny Manziel on the scalp of Kerrville teen Christian Chavez.
An abbreviated primer on the most successful sports franchise in Texas this side of the Spurs. (Update: the Dynamo lost to the LA Galaxy, 3-1, in the 2012 MLS Cup Final.)
Residents in the more upscale half of the Permian Basin make more money per capita than people in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston.
“You see this bullet right here, I’ll stick it from they rooter to the tooter,” raps Lt. Regina Smith, now suspended.
A Texas scientist purports to have sequenced Sasquatch DNA.
New data from the U.S. Department of Education says that Texas is tied for fourth place with a high school graduation rate of 86 percent for the 2010-2011 school year.
There are whispers that the company's production of a musical version of Giant could leap to Broadway.
The Amarillo millionaire and iconoclastic "Cadillac Ranch" artist/prankster faces 11 felony charges of sexual activity with two teenage boys.
Hey Jerry, want to win another Super Bowl? Sell the team to its own fans a la Green Bay Packers, says Dallas Cowboys author Joe Nick Patoski.
A New York artist bought a bunch of old phones from a Sugar Land man and published a book packed with the pictures and texts he found in them.
The Magic Mike star reflects on his role the run-up to the Academy Awards.
What will happen to the fundamentalist Mormon compound?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is temporarily suspending the British oil giant's ability to receive contracts from the federal government.
The Oak Cliff apartment fixtures that witnessed the 1962-1963 fights between the assassin and his wife are on sale.
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel finally speaks, UT-TCU, the Cotton Bowl, UTSA-Texas State and other highlights from the college football week that was.
In San Antonio, they already are. When a student protested that the RFID chips violated her right to privacy and threatened religious freedom, the school suspended her.
U.S. Citizens are cautioned to avoid the four Mexican states bordering Texas just a week before President Obama is set to meet with incoming Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Startling images of the 140-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 west of Beaumont on Thanksgiving Day.
Larry Hagman, who died Friday at at the age of 81, was both a native and, as Dallas anti-hero J.R. Ewing, an international icon.
Texas Monthly's Christmas cover boy was also David Letterman's before-Thanksgiving guest, talking “Crazy,” Patsy Cline, and, of course, pot.
Feast on this: Turkeys and the three Texas presidents who pardoned them. Meantime, we hope you'll pardon us for taking a break from the TMDP. See you Monday with more great posts.
Pets separated from their owners by Superstorm Sandy got a lift from Southwest Airlines to a no-kill shelter in California.
Formula 1 stakes its claim to join SXSW, ACL, and UT football in the Austin event pantheon.
Crimes against dolphins plague the Gulf of Mexico.
From drunk landlords to "sexually-oriented games," the people of Decatur are intent on keeping Wise weird.
AWOL Houston Rockets rookie Royce White, who suffers from generalized anxiety disorder, is at odds with the team over how to best manage his illness.
Following a union strike, Irving-based Hostess Brands announced on Friday that it would liquidate its factories.
Three Texas cities have a ton of 'em, according to an internet dating site.
Preston Hughes III was executed Thursday night for the 1988 slayings of a 15-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy.
Vroom-vroom! Austin becomes an alternate universe this weekend, as the United States Grand Prix debuts.
G.B. Trudeau worked the Alamo, SXSW, Bush, Perry, and an Aggie joke into six Doonesbury strips about Texas secession, but unlike his sonogram law series, hardly anybody noticed.
From drunk landlords to "sexually-oriented games," the people of Decatur are intent on keeping Wise weird.
Ramon Hernandez, put to death for a 2001 slaying, was also linked to three other murders, prosecutors said.
The headline-grabbing U.S. Representative from Tyler nominated Newt Gingrich to be Speaker of the House. Is he crazy like a fox?
The Texas Republican gave his last impassioned speech on the House floor Wednesday.
World's biggest Frito pie? Check. Most consecutive back handsprings? Got it. Largest pecan pie? Indeed. But when it comes to some truly important Guinness records, Texas is playing second enchilada.
Members of the Kansas-based church plan to "kindly warn" F1 fans to flee God's wrath.
A petition calling for the Obama administration to let Texas secede from the United States had more than 95,000 signatures as of Wednesday morning.
Texas and the University of Texas said goodbye to Longhorns coaching legend Darrell K. Royal at a public memorial service at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Real talk from some prominent Republican women.
Will an increasingly Hispanic Texas be an increasingly Democratic one?
The latest, greatest crimes from Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
The Pac-12 Conference is investigating charges of abusive player treatment made against the former Texas Tech and current Washington State coach. Leach denies the allegations.
Does Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act encroach on States' Rights?