Plus: Texas Democrats get rowdy at breakfast in Philadelphia, Joaquín Castro takes a hard look at Ted Cruz’s Senate seat, and someone might have set fire to Enchanted Rock.
Plus: Texans take center stage on day one at the DNC, archaeologists make a big find at the Alamo, and a South Texas cemetery agrees to allow non-whites to be buried there.
Texas Democrats gather in Philly, people keep dying in Bexar County Jail, and the home of a Vernon woman is besieged by snakes.
Plus: A troubling arrest in Austin, Texas state leaders wade into Big 12 politics, and Buc-ee’s sues to save its beaver.
Plus: Ted Cruz gets booed, Fort Worth ISD changes its transgender student guidelines, and San Antonio celebrates Tim Duncan Day.
The university’s first major hires since cleaning house in May don’t exactly inspire confidence that things are changing for the better.
Turkish leaders are blaming Fethullah Gulen, a man with deep ties to Texas’s largest charter school system, for the attempted takeover.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Plus: Baylor’s new football coach makes some questionable comments, Dez Bryant and Royce West ramp up their lawsuit war, and Texas Republicans picked a loser for the first time in forever.
Plus: The Big 12 takes on Baylor, Julián Castro gets in trouble, and Greg Abbott moves to make attacks on police a hate crime.
Plus: Texas’s public college presidents get paid, police encounters in Texas are becoming increasingly fatal, and a brutal attack in Lubbock leaves a bunch of goats dead.
Plus: A nationally televised town hall discussion on race has a strong Texas flavor, Pokemon Go wreaks havoc in North Texas, and Ted Cruz lays low ahead of the GOP Convention.
Texas’s latest police shooting is the first major test to the transparency of HPD’s new body camera program.
Plus: UT’s gun policy comes into focus, Congressman Ted Poe has cancer, and Baylor announces its new athletic director.
Plus: Greg Abbott undergoes surgery, Texas again fares well on CNBC’s annual state business scorecard, and a pageant crown controversy grips Corpus Christi.
Plus: Tim Duncan retires, Houston’s mayor asks the feds to investigate an officer-involved shooting, and Rick Perry has some thoughts about Donald Trump’s wall.
In announcing his withdrawal from Rio, Spieth joins a growing list of prominent Texas athletes choosing to stay home.
Plus: Police fatally shoot an African-American man in Houston, Greg Abbott gets burned, and a North Texas town just can’t deal with pigeons.
Plus: President Obama and Texas leaders respond to the shooting in Dallas, Ted Cruz will speak at the Republican National Convention, and Baylor football is reeling.
It could be a nightmare for Texas NBA teams, but the Longhorns should be happy.
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.
Plus: Ken Paxton gets a little financial help from his friends, Texas pre-K programs receive a boost in funding, and Austin’s Greenbelt endures a particularly deadly summer.
Plus: Texans really don’t like taxes, NBA free agency is in full swing in Texas and Greg Abbott makes a pitch to British businesses reeling from Brexit.
Plus: Flesh-eating bacteria is bumming out Texas beachgoers, more transgender Texans are cool with coming out, and Matthew McConaughey gets into higher education at UT.
Plus: New developments in two controversial police shootings, Texas preps for Zika, and most Texas prisons still won’t have air conditioning this summer.
Plus: A new survey shows Trump’s most controversial policy proposals have support in Texas, a fiery train crash outside Amarillo, and a fight over plastic bags in Laredo could have statewide implications.
Plus: The DMV makes controversial changes to its registration fees, two Houston law schools scuffle over their similar names, and Fort Hood soldiers finally have the right to bare their arms.
Plus: Texit talk heats up, Johnny Manziel’s downward spiral continues, and a Texan faces billions of dollars in fines over a pile of wood.
Plus: No charges for the cop who body-slammed a girl at a McKinney pool party, and new census data shows the next generation of Texans is incredibly diverse.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Plus: The Big 12 turns its eye on Baylor, Dez Bryant gets sued by a Texas senator, and the biggest Medicare fraud crackdown in history takes down a whole bunch of Texans.
Plus: Dallas throws shade at Cleveland , a Texas-based company allegedly swindled top athletes, and Willie Nelson’s weed company is now hiring.
Plus: Senator Cornyn’s gun bill flops, deer breeder drama, and a new study says Texas stinks for kids.
Plus: State Democrats gather in San Antonio, Texas braces for an oil well cleanup crisis, and Art Briles settles with Baylor.
Plus: Your daily Trumpdate, a win for refugee resettlement in Texas, and police think they’ve caught the infamous Austin Rock-Thrower.
Plus: Mark Cuban does a good thing, more lawsuits for Baylor, and the gag order is finally lifted from the Twin Peaks shootout case.
Plus: A scary shooting at an Amarillo Walmart, Kerry Max Cook fires his lawyers, and gnomes invade a North Texas town.
Powerful people at Baylor reportedly want Art Briles back, Trump’s Texas itinerary becomes a little clearer, and tiny houses are tearing apart a small West Texas town.
Dan Patrick’s loose Twitter fingers land him in hot water, the state scraps tainted STAAR test results, and Baylor begins to move forward.
Austinites take to Facebook to find rides in the absence of Uber and Lyft, Texas takes on Delaware, and a man says he was choked for smiling during his mugshot.
Uber and Lyft take their fight to the state legislature, a fired police officer won’t face criminal charges after fatally shooting an unarmed African-American teen and Rick Perry is officially ruled out of the Trump veepstakes.
Ted Cruz actually does something in the Senate, the Travis County Republicans prepare for their controversial new chairman, and Austin gets serious about rock throwers.
The last 9-11 rescue dog passes away in Houston, Trump makes plans for a Texas trip, and the smallest school district in the state hopes to stay that way.
Johnny Football gets sued for a destructive party, Texas's inappropriate teacher-student relationship epidemic gets worse and police make an arrest in the tragic murder of an 11-year old boy.
Flooding claims the lives of at least five soldiers following a tragic accident at Fort Hood, Greg Abbott has a Trump University scandal on his hands, and National Gun Violence Awareness Day sparks a familiar debate.
Abbott deals a blow to state agencies who like to keep former employees on the payroll, the disturbing details of another improper teacher-student relationship are revealed in Houston, and ex-Baylor president Ken Starr resigns as chancellor.
Dan Patrick plunges deeper into the bathroom battle, a baby switched at birth finally returns home to Texas, and more details emerge after a deadly shooting in Houston.
The trail ends for a Texas baseball legend, deadly floods sweep through the state, and a rare gorilla born and bred in Texas is shot and killed.
Big changes at Baylor amid a sexual assault scandal, a Texan takes home the spelling bee championship, and the state’s mental health hospitals need a $1 billion upgrade.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
