Michael Hall

Jul 13, 2020 — By Michael Hall

Jim McCloskey, the godfather of the innocence movement, changed the way we think about crime and punishment.

Jun 6, 2020 — By Michael Hall

At 16, Ayala was just beginning to learn about social movements when police shot him in the head with a ”less-lethal” weapon.

May 30, 2020 — By Michael Hall

Friends remember Floyd, who grew up in the Third Ward, as a gentle soul, a father, and a talented collaborator of DJ Screw’s.

May 11, 2020 — By Michael Hall

First came the sound of someone running hard on the breezeway outside, then a banging on the apartment door. Irene Vera opened it to see her neighbor, twenty-year-old Rosa Jimenez, holding a little boy who lay limp in her arms. “Help me! Help me!” Jimenez cried hysterically in Spanish. The…

Apr 2, 2020 — By Michael Hall

The author and journalist has mobilized fans to chip in and help struggling strangers online.

Mar 21, 2020 — By Michael Hall

The Houston icon, who passed away yesterday, sang a lot of other music too.

Mar 9, 2020 — By Michael Hall

But we're hard at work creating another way for you to experience this incredible storytelling event.

Feb 7, 2020 — By Michael Hall

On March 17, we're taking over the Moody Theater for a night of storytelling from some of your favorite Texas artists.

Jan 22, 2020 — By Michael Hall

The incredible true story of two brothers raised on the hardscrabble country music of rural West Texas who dropped out, tuned in, found God, and helped launch the seventies soft-rock revolution.

Dec 19, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Pedro Villalobos handles felony cases in Travis County, but his own legal status could be in jeopardy.

Nov 20, 2019 — By Michael Hall, Skip Hollandsworth, Andy Langer, Emily McCullar, Katy Vine and Lauren Smith Ford

The stories, the traditions, and the deeper meanings of the boots in their lives.

Nov 1, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Galveston’s Johnny Romano, the youngest professional skateboarder in history, passed away from leukemia.

Oct 25, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Mezghebe fled East Africa, landed at Texas’s Casa Marianella, and performed with Maggie Rogers in Austin.

Sep 16, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Both before and after Lee Hazlewood wrote hits for Nancy Sinatra and Duane Eddy, he was a Texas musician.

Aug 7, 2019 — By Michael Hall

James Fulton reunites with his family, as victim Haile Beasley’s parents decry justice undone.

Jul 24, 2019 — By Michael Hall

The obscure indie ’Taking Tiger Mountain’ offers a glimpse at the late Hollywood star as a teenager.

Jul 23, 2019 — By Michael Hall

How does a man wrongly convicted of murder get released twenty years later? It helps to have a wife who loves you, a podcaster who believes in you, and an army of amateur sleuths who won’t stop digging for the truth.

Jun 24, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Justices grant James Fulton a new sentencing hearing: “Tragic consequences do not elevate ordinary negligence to criminal negligence.”

Apr 19, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Bob Ruff is working on his fifth Texas case in fewer than four years, this time hoping to prove the innocence of Sandra Melgar in the killing of her husband, Jaime Melgar.

Mar 20, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Carly Mayo, eighteen, is now back in Tyler and living with her mom as she reckons with her past.

Feb 20, 2019 — By Michael Hall

Driving through a dangerous curve in Tyler, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. He wasn’t drunk, and the cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.

Jan 30, 2019 — By John Spong, John Nova Lomax, Larry L. King and Michael Hall

Appreciations by current and former staffers who know them all too well.

Dec 19, 2018 — By Michael Hall

Found guilty in 1987, the freed man will be paid $2.5 million by the state of Texas, which he'll use to support his prison ministry.

Dec 17, 2018 — By Michael Hall

The documentary, premiering on PBS December 17, looks to the elderly minister's hometown of Grand Saline to uncover why he set himself alight.

Nov 13, 2018 — By Michael Hall

A controversial Dallas civil rights lawyer is holding police accountable—and being held accountable, too.

Sep 10, 2018 — By Michael Hall

Brandley died last week, 31 years after the state of Texas tried and failed to kill him.

Sep 4, 2018 — By Michael Hall

How a motley crew of young Texas lawyers, a burly Michigan podcaster, and his army of amateur sleuths—including actor Jon Cryer—helped free a man convicted of a murder he swears he didn’t commit.

Aug 15, 2018 — By Michael Hall

He worked 80-hour weeks to send money home to his family. The driver who ran him over had been in and out of trouble for years.

Jun 4, 2018 — By Michael Hall

The case of a man who slaughtered his family, then gouged out his eyes, will be reviewed Tuesday by an appellate court panel in New Orleans.

May 25, 2018 — By Michael Hall

We need a museum worthy of our music. And we need Mark Cuban's help to get us there.

Apr 18, 2018 — By Michael Hall

The music icon talks to us about how he’s able to continue writing—and touring—well into his eighties.

Apr 13, 2018 — By Michael Hall

The future Hall of Famer hangs with his buddy, Jason Pena, at their joint venture, BlackJack Speed Shop.

Mar 30, 2018 — By Michael Hall

He was a highlight of Austin’s creative community and, in death, a spotlight on the city’s problems with race.

Feb 21, 2018 — By Michael Hall

A decade ago, Gabby Sones accused her parents and five others of running the most depraved child sex ring in Texas history. Now she’s ready to clear their names.

Dec 1, 2017 — By Michael Hall

Pedro Villalobos is a star prosecutor. Gerardo De Loera is a musician. Joseph Ramirez is a tech entrepreneur. They’re young, they’re smart, they make America great. They’re also undocumented. And now, they face being sent back to a place they’ve never called home.

Oct 13, 2017 — By Michael Hall

DJ El Dusty, the unofficial mayor of the Corpus Christi music scene, is ushering in a modernized version of cumbia.

Sep 5, 2017 — By Michael Hall

Alonso Guillen died an American hero—even if many didn’t think of him as an American.

Aug 1, 2017 — By Michael Hall

Our executive editor's book, 'The Midnight Assassin,' won the nonfiction book of the year from the Writers' League of Texas.

Jul 25, 2017 — By Michael Hall

The greatest Texas songwriter you’ve never heard of is a 72-year-old grandmother from Lubbock. This is her story.

Jun 7, 2017 — By Michael Hall

Kerry Max Cook, who spent almost twenty years on death row for a murder he maintains he didn't commit, sues the people who sent him there.

May 24, 2017 — By Michael Hall

The essence of Texas barbecue—past and present—is in the Piney Woods.

May 2, 2017 — By Michael Hall, Richard Hendin and Dan Solomon

Here are your not-to-miss acts across the state.

Apr 6, 2017 — By Michael Hall

Louise Rowe was the only female musician to play with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Now she's taking her own band to San Marcos.

Apr 6, 2017 — By Michael Hall

Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss talks to us about Kerry Max Cook, the Texan accused of brutal 1977 murder whom Dreyfuss played on stage.

Mar 29, 2017 — By Michael Hall

The Supreme Court says Texas must change the way it determines who can be executed.

Mar 22, 2017 — By Michael Hall

For almost forty years, Kerry Max Cook did everything to clear his name after being convicted of a horrifying murder in Tyler. So when he was finally exonerated, why did he ask for his conviction back?

Feb 14, 2017 — By Michael Hall

For many Americans, the controversial health law is government run amok. But for these people in San Antonio, it’s been a lifesaver.

Jul 13, 2016 — By Michael Hall

In 1982 three teenagers were killed near the shores of Lake Waco in a seemingly inexplicable crime. More than three decades later, the tragic and disturbing case still casts a long, dark shadow.

Jun 6, 2016 — By Michael Hall

Kerry Max Cook, a subject of The Exonerated, is finally exonerated.

Jun 3, 2016 — By Michael Hall

Stunning new evidence in the case of Kerry Max Cook casts serious doubt on his 1978 murder conviction--and points emphatically at another man.