A combination of steep cuts to women’s health care and an impasse over federal Title X funds threatens to leave some 400,000 low income Texas women without access to cancer screenings and contraceptives.
A study conducted by Texas State University researchers involving vultures and human remains could have big implications for homicide investigators.
Two physics professors at Texas State University believe that a rare lunar event may have flung the icebergs in the ship's path.
Junie Hoang filed a lawsuit against IMDb for revealing her true age. When the New York Times picked up on the story, the paper accidentally misprinted her age.
Ernie Lopez, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a baby and became the focus of a ProPublica investigation into mishandled child death cases, was released from prison after the state appeals court overturned his conviction.
Guards had been aware that the Liberty County jail inmates were viewing porn for months, according to a KPRC News investigation.
A bandit stole a cashbox containing $200 from a troop of Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a Fort Bend County Walmart.
Local gun stores have seen record sales, and in 2011, the FBI conducted more than one million background checks in Texas alone.
Sharon Simmons, a 55-year-old grandmother from Carrollton, plans on trying out to become a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader this May.
Edna Milton Chadwell was the madam running the famous brothel when authorities shut it down in 1973.
In his annual letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett writes that Berkshire Hathaway's $2 billion investment in TXU Corp.'s bonds could be wiped out if natural gas prices do not rise.
Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., said that building two medical schools in the Valley is "totally unrealistic" and the focus should be kept on the plan to build a University of Texas system medical school in Harlingen.
A new study from the Baylor College of Medicine finds “active” video games like Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution don't lead to an increase in physical activity.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange claims the released emails depict a company bent on obtaining intelligence information by any means necessary, but is it as sinister as he makes it out to be?
Wade Steffen, a champion steer wrestler, was arrested after TSA officials found $337,000 and photos of rhino horns in his carry-on luggage at the Los Angeles airport.
American Sniper, the autobiography of Chris Kyle, the most successful sniper in American history, topped the New York Times best-seller list this week.
A selection of our favorite bird-related stories from around the state.
Jeffrey Maxwell of Corsicana, who abducted a former neighbor and tortured her on a deer-skinning rack, was convicted and faces multiple life sentences for his crime.
More than thirty Tivoli students brought their own lunches to school last week as part of a grassroots protest for healthier meal options.
Meet Wildthing, the unlikely Bison housepet of an eccentric family in Quinlan.
As Texas A&M moves to the SEC, change is afoot at the university, but not everyone is supportive of this particular proposal.
Happy Presidents' Day! Before the three presidents from Texas were politicians they were ... babies. See baby pictures of LBJ, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
Valley farmers posting videos to ProtectYourTexasBorder.com say there is increased violence in the area, but critics find the stats don't back up this claim.
"Deep in the Heart" tells the story of Centerville's Dick Wallrath, an alcoholic rancher turned 4-H philathropist.
Four new 65-cent stamps pay homage to the dogs of war.
Eighteen-year-old Monica Thieu became the youngest College Jeopardy Champion in the contest's history.
State senator Florence Shapiro says that the Texas Education Agency can (and should) waive the requirement that tests count toward fifteen percent of final grades this year.
Cinders, a wire-haired dachshund from Corpus Christi, was one of seven finalists for the Best in Show title.
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Burnham was naked, but for her cowboy boots, when she was stopped by cops in her Jeep Wrangler in Corpus Christi.
Shanna Widner appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the horror of dealing with her mother, Wanda Holloway, taking out a hit on her cheerleader classmate's mom.
The twelve-year-old girl admitted shooting her father in the head in 2009, but she said she did it because he had abused her.
The governor took a page from his presidential campaign playbook and slammed the president in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
The tradition of sending mail through the tiny town of Valentine to receive a special stamp could end if the USPS shutters the branch.
Democratic state representative Steve Holland said he filed the legislation to make a point about his Republican colleagues.
Observant Houstonians have discovered a new holy image in a mundane object.
The presidential candidate visited the Metroplex, attending church in McKinney and stumping at a "faux-rustic farm" in Plano.
Kitsch, who played Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights, takes the big screen, but could does he run the risk of becoming an action hero flop?
Passengers snapped pictures and took video of a pair of Magellanic penguins toddling down an airplane's aisle on a recent flight from Orlando to New York.
The racist YouTube rant of a Colorado transplant to Laredo has the city's residents seeing red.
After Randy Travis was picked up in a church parking lot in Sanger, the peanut gallery had an opinion on everything from his beverage of choice to the reason he was boozing.
Dallas Wiens, a Fort Worth man who lost his face after brushing against a power line, was profiled by the New Yorker's Raffi Khatchadourian.
During a public videochat, an unemployed engineer's wife asked President Barack Obama why her husband didn't have a job. Now, the offers are pouring in.
But is it enough to calm the waters?
Skywatchers (and schlubs who just happened to be outside around 8 p.m. Wednesday night) were treated to the sight of a large meteor streaking across the heavens.
After the island lost more than 35,000 trees to Hurricane Ike, a group of artists carved 35 stumps into beautiful and intricate sculptures.
Rick Perry raised only $2.9 million in the last quarter of 2011, new campaign finance documents reveal.
A Louisianan couple and their four Capuchin monkeys are on the lam in East Texas, avoiding authorities who may want to take away the animals.
The show, titled The Client List, is based on a TEXAS MONTHLY story about a "massage parlor" in Odessa.
Restaurant mogul Tilman Fertitta is building a $60 million amusement park on the pier where the old one used to sit.
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.
