At the top of the University of Texas Tower 35 years ago, Austin policemen Houston McCoy and Ramiro “Ray” Martinez risked all to end the killing spree of ex-Marine Charles Whitman. The press initially credited Martinez with taking Whitman down, but after the coroner’s report was issued, it seemed
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
A reminder that Charles Whitman’s shooting spree resonated far outside of Texas.
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
Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. What took so long?
On a sweltering Monday in August 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower and began shooting pedestrians below, killing eleven people and forever altering the lives of many others. In this excerpt from her new novel, Elizabeth Crook reimagines the day that changed everything.
Nine years after the brutal murder of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop rocked the city of Austin, the police say they have finally caught the killers. But they have no evidence and no witnesses—only two confessions that the defendants say were coerced. Which is why, when the case
In “Parties Around a Punch Bowl,” Kimberly Schlegel Whitman offers a year’s worth of seasonal cocktail recipes.
Officials at an El Paso hospital are scrambling after exposing more than 700 babies to TB, and Charles Whitman's rifle is up for sale.
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.
The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.
As you begin your search for where next to call home, much like Lubbock’s recent standings in a variety of topics, the “Hub City” should be at the top of your list. We already know why Lubbock is a highly esteemed city but let us share a few notable accolades
The inside story of the Dallas-born luxury retailer’s struggle to remain relevant—and solvent.
In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?
The author and UT professor believes our country is falling apart—and he has a plan to fix it.
Will Boone’s first solo exhibition probes what the Lone Star State means to outsiders and insiders alike.
The Austin author on his fascination with H.L. Hunt, his inability to hate Santa Anna, and how he met the challenges of writing a history of Texas for the twenty-first century.
We traveled 3,000 miles to find the state’s best little country joints. Welcome to neon nirvana.
Though the city’s Tricentennial Commission has thus far been a dismal failure, creative residents have found a way to celebrate their complex history and promising future.
After the Sutherland Springs tragedy, he looked at his phone and saw strangers wishing he would die. But they had the wrong Devin.
Half a century after the 1966 UT tower massacre, mass shootings have only become more common.
Plus: Abbott opens the door for Uber and Lyft, Facebook and Apple unite against discriminatory legislation in Texas, and a federal audit rips Texas’s foster care system.
The butt was tender and yielding. Or was it? Confessions of a veteran fact checker.
With their forthcoming EP, the singer-songwriters seek to raise awareness for an issue that hits both of them close to home.
The films, TV shows, and panels not to miss at the SXSW film conference.
Plus: Texas carries out the country’s first execution of the year, Rick Perry makes moves to rid his conflicts of interest, and the 'Mad Men' archive heads to the University of Texas at Austin.
Plus: State police search for 2,800 at-risk foster kids, beware the ballot selfie, and a bake sale causes trouble at UT.
Plus: CPS leaders get the boot, Baylor suspends a football player for abusing his dog, and a long-standing Aggie football tradition abruptly ends.
Barbecue in the Carolinas means pork, but it’s not just any pile of pulled pig that’s revered in eastern North Carolina. Whole hogs cooked over wood fill the legendary pit houses in this part of the state. It’s the traditional route, but it’s harder to execute than pork shoulders, which are
Plus: Texas tries to clog Obama’s transgender bathroom mandate, yet another attempt to regulate abortion clinics, and Texas doctors accused of sexually abusing patients avoid facing serious punishment.
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
Are the legendary lawmen necessary? Yes, but their inability to grapple with the modern world threatens to make them irrelevant.
The Lonesome Dove Trail and Reunion in Fort Worth brought together cast and crew, who waxed nostalgic on the seminal series and the book that inspired it.
Your guide to the Texas-based directors and plots appearing at this year's SXSW Film conference.
MBAs Across America CEO and co-founder Casey Gerald explains why it’s hard to change the world.
The new open carry law goes into effect in 2016, and law enforcement is trying to meet the changes head-on.
And what it tells us about the next generation of gun rights activists.
A "serious, theatrical skit" isn't what students need during finals. Or ever.
Maybe it’s time to try a different approach to mass shootings.
Blue Bell to return to North Texas and legislators back down on therapy cuts.
My family and their hometown helped change LBJ’s views on equal rights. Did his later policies change the reality for those in South Texas?
In a renovated gas station that looks more like a former Blockbuster with a colorful sign that evokes Baskin Robbins, sits Big Daddy’s Ribs & BBQ. It opened last year along a widened El Dorado Parkway on the east side of Lake Dallas where suburbia has overtaken anything resembling lake-related
The state’s top offerings, from gangsters in sixties-era Austin to broncobusters in present-day Houston.
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
Concealed carry has been legal since 1996—but the number of Texans applying for CHLs has exploded since 2008.
Thirty years ago, Texans who equated fine dining with chicken cordon bleu and trout meunière suddenly found themselves eating barbecued Gulf shrimp and goat cheese quesadillas. An oral history of the Southwestern cuisine revolution.
The state's top offerings, from iconic pop art in San Antonio to a fiddling extravaganza in Athens.
The New York Times Magazine proclaimed Saunders a "superhero" of American fiction. Is he a king of Texas literature too?
At the top of the University of Texas Tower 35 years ago, Austin policemen Houston McCoy and Ramiro “Ray” Martinez risked all to end the killing spree of ex-Marine Charles Whitman. The press initially credited Martinez with taking Whitman down, but after the coroner’s report was issued, it seemed
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
A reminder that Charles Whitman’s shooting spree resonated far outside of Texas.
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
Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. What took so long?
On a sweltering Monday in August 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower and began shooting pedestrians below, killing eleven people and forever altering the lives of many others. In this excerpt from her new novel, Elizabeth Crook reimagines the day that changed everything.
Nine years after the brutal murder of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop rocked the city of Austin, the police say they have finally caught the killers. But they have no evidence and no witnesses—only two confessions that the defendants say were coerced. Which is why, when the case
In “Parties Around a Punch Bowl,” Kimberly Schlegel Whitman offers a year’s worth of seasonal cocktail recipes.
Officials at an El Paso hospital are scrambling after exposing more than 700 babies to TB, and Charles Whitman's rifle is up for sale.
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.
The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.
As you begin your search for where next to call home, much like Lubbock’s recent standings in a variety of topics, the “Hub City” should be at the top of your list. We already know why Lubbock is a highly esteemed city but let us share a few notable accolades
The inside story of the Dallas-born luxury retailer’s struggle to remain relevant—and solvent.
In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?
The author and UT professor believes our country is falling apart—and he has a plan to fix it.
Will Boone’s first solo exhibition probes what the Lone Star State means to outsiders and insiders alike.
The Austin author on his fascination with H.L. Hunt, his inability to hate Santa Anna, and how he met the challenges of writing a history of Texas for the twenty-first century.
We traveled 3,000 miles to find the state’s best little country joints. Welcome to neon nirvana.
Though the city’s Tricentennial Commission has thus far been a dismal failure, creative residents have found a way to celebrate their complex history and promising future.
After the Sutherland Springs tragedy, he looked at his phone and saw strangers wishing he would die. But they had the wrong Devin.
Half a century after the 1966 UT tower massacre, mass shootings have only become more common.
Plus: Abbott opens the door for Uber and Lyft, Facebook and Apple unite against discriminatory legislation in Texas, and a federal audit rips Texas’s foster care system.
The butt was tender and yielding. Or was it? Confessions of a veteran fact checker.
With their forthcoming EP, the singer-songwriters seek to raise awareness for an issue that hits both of them close to home.
The films, TV shows, and panels not to miss at the SXSW film conference.
Plus: Texas carries out the country’s first execution of the year, Rick Perry makes moves to rid his conflicts of interest, and the 'Mad Men' archive heads to the University of Texas at Austin.
Plus: State police search for 2,800 at-risk foster kids, beware the ballot selfie, and a bake sale causes trouble at UT.
Plus: CPS leaders get the boot, Baylor suspends a football player for abusing his dog, and a long-standing Aggie football tradition abruptly ends.
Barbecue in the Carolinas means pork, but it’s not just any pile of pulled pig that’s revered in eastern North Carolina. Whole hogs cooked over wood fill the legendary pit houses in this part of the state. It’s the traditional route, but it’s harder to execute than pork shoulders, which are
Plus: Texas tries to clog Obama’s transgender bathroom mandate, yet another attempt to regulate abortion clinics, and Texas doctors accused of sexually abusing patients avoid facing serious punishment.
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
Are the legendary lawmen necessary? Yes, but their inability to grapple with the modern world threatens to make them irrelevant.
The Lonesome Dove Trail and Reunion in Fort Worth brought together cast and crew, who waxed nostalgic on the seminal series and the book that inspired it.
Your guide to the Texas-based directors and plots appearing at this year's SXSW Film conference.
MBAs Across America CEO and co-founder Casey Gerald explains why it’s hard to change the world.
The new open carry law goes into effect in 2016, and law enforcement is trying to meet the changes head-on.
And what it tells us about the next generation of gun rights activists.
A "serious, theatrical skit" isn't what students need during finals. Or ever.
Maybe it’s time to try a different approach to mass shootings.
Blue Bell to return to North Texas and legislators back down on therapy cuts.
My family and their hometown helped change LBJ’s views on equal rights. Did his later policies change the reality for those in South Texas?
In a renovated gas station that looks more like a former Blockbuster with a colorful sign that evokes Baskin Robbins, sits Big Daddy’s Ribs & BBQ. It opened last year along a widened El Dorado Parkway on the east side of Lake Dallas where suburbia has overtaken anything resembling lake-related
The state’s top offerings, from gangsters in sixties-era Austin to broncobusters in present-day Houston.
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
Concealed carry has been legal since 1996—but the number of Texans applying for CHLs has exploded since 2008.
Thirty years ago, Texans who equated fine dining with chicken cordon bleu and trout meunière suddenly found themselves eating barbecued Gulf shrimp and goat cheese quesadillas. An oral history of the Southwestern cuisine revolution.
The state's top offerings, from iconic pop art in San Antonio to a fiddling extravaganza in Athens.
The New York Times Magazine proclaimed Saunders a "superhero" of American fiction. Is he a king of Texas literature too?
