A billboard bearing the civil right leader's image and the words “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!” has cropped up on the boulevard in Dallas that bears his name.
The 42nd president charmed a crowd of 3,000 gathered in South San Antonio High School's gymnasium Thursday afternoon.
The satirical Twitter feed is run by five women, two of whom live in Texas.
Watch a stunning time-lapse video of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's final voyage through the streets of Los Angeles.
A man camping in Shelby County thinks he saw the hairy monster in the Piney Woods.
Big Tex went up in flames Friday.
Twenty five years ago this Tuesday, rescuers hoisted Baby Jessica out of the Midland water well where she had been trapped for more than two days.
Gawker's Adrian Chen reveals that the self-described "creepy uncle of Reddit" is 49-year-old Arlington resident Michael Brutsch.
The FBI arrested eight people in Houston Wednesday and accused them of exporting sophisticated microelectronics to the Russian military and intelligence services.
Last week, video surfaced on YouTube of the 31-year-old Georgetown Law student and freelance journalist, missing in Syria since August 13.
Inside the darkly humorous world of the Lufkin Daily News police blotter.
Austin's city council unanimously passed a resolution supporting marriage equality Thursday morning.
The fight between Nick Lampson and Randy Weber to represent Congressional District 14 could be one of the few competitive races in the state this election cycle.
Earlier this month, zoo officials found Madagascar Bigheaded turtle hatchlings in the zoo's lemur exhibit.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which had stayed Cleve Foster's execution three times in the last year, declined to intervene Tuesday.
The Internet reacts to last week's "chair lynching" in North Austin.
Thousands craned their necks at the sky Thursday to catch of glimpse of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which made its final trip across Texas perched on the back of a 747.
Mitch McConnell hosted a fundraiser for the Tea Party darling last Thursday, and U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn attended.
The university received a phone call at 8:35 a.m. warning that explosions would happen in ninety minutes, but an evacuation was only ordered at 9:50 a.m, 15 minutes before the bombs would have gone off.
Fourth graders drew disturbing pictures depict the planes hitting the twin towers and people jumping out of buildings.
To quote Sophia Dembling, "[t]here is no product that can't be improved by making it in the shape of Texas." In that spirit, we bring you five Etsy finds.
Drug gangs track and kidnap many deportees returning to Mexico, hoping that family members who remain in the U.S. will cough up the ransom they demand.
Game wardens say they have caught seven women competing in the Ladies Kingfish tournament in a lie about some sea bass. They plan to pursue felony charges.
Criminal defense attorney Adam Reposa, a graduate of UT law, has a penchant for posting colorful videos on YouTube.
How McAllen turned a vacant Walmart into one of the most architecturally imaginative libraries in the country.
New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that California added some 142,000 more jobs than Texas in the last twelve months.
Lubbock County Judge Tom Head wants to raise Lubbock County's property taxes by 1.7 cents per $100 in order to pay for more sheriff's deputies to defend the town from the UN troops during potential civil unrest.
Kinky Friedman tells the Dallas Morning News that he is mulling another run for governor.
George P. Bush, nephew of Bush 43 and the grandson of Bush 41, is taking a prominent position in the Republican Party of Texas, a move that cements his status as a future political star.
At three years old, Christopher Salvaggio has an IQ of 145, qualifying him to join the ranks of the high IQ society.
The state election code requires counties that held primary elections to hold runoffs, but Sterling and Oldham counties opted not to.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking corporate sponsors.
With December 21, 2012 rapidly approaching (only 148 days away!), so-called doomsday "preppers" are on the rise in Texas.
Nine days after two bunnies were stolen from a Galveston Island bunny sanctuary, the rabbits were returned to their home.
The George W. Bush Institute released its first book today, titled "The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs."
A new rule from the General Land Office is set to allow caterers to serve alcohol at events held in Alamo Hall, a building that is not within the 1836 bounds of the fort.
The zoo is seeking a name for its longhorn calf, born in late May.
The North Texas Tollway Authority published a list of more than 26,000 offenders who allegedly owe the system thousands of dollars.
Jasper is still reeling one month after the city's first black police chief was fired by a majority-white city council.
How did a thirty-year-old Mexican man end up dead on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande in Matamoros?
Some 650 Aggies came out to form a human "Maroon Wall" around a College Station church where the funeral of fallen Aggie, Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, was taking place.
At least two news outlets found Texas angles for the Higgs boson discovery at CERN.
A week after he was mauled by two chimpanzees at a South African sanctuary, Andrew Oberle is hospitalized in stable condition.
Peter Lundgren, Roger Federer's longtime coach, now lives and works in Houston.
Take a virtual tour of the new McAllen Public Library, built inside an abandoned Walmart.
Watch the heartwarming documentary PBS aired a high school mariachi band from the Rio Grande Valley.
Some 31 female trainees have accused twelve instructors of sexual misconduct.
Mexico appears to have elected a dashing new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, heralding a return to rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
A number of the critically endangered sea turtles are being monitored by the National Resource Damage Assessment, which is studying how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted the animal is underway on Padre Island.
After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 decision Thursday, Texas politicians and pundits weighed in.
