Who cares if they dress differently, act differently, and spell their names differently? Brother Dick DeGuerin and Mike DeGeurin are two of the best attorneys in Texas, and for that they can thank their mentor, legal legend Percy Foreman.
How 89-year-old Harvey Penick turned life’s lessons into a best-selling book—and followed it up with another master stroke.
Tuff Hedeman was born in El Paso and raised on rodeo. Today he’s one the best bull riders in the world.
Did Kay Bailey Hutchison do what she’s accused of—or did Democratic Party officials hatch a conspiracy to get her?
After ten low-key years, country singer turned mystery novelist Kinky Friedman is once again poised to hit the big time.
Police officers Randy Harris and Swany Davenport were called heroes for busting Dallas drug dealers. But when they broke the laws they had pledged to uphold, the dealers cried foul—and the heroes got busted.
At play in the fields of Mexico, onetime major leaguers find beisbol is an entirely different game.
If you want to see the real Texas, take a little extra time, turn off the interstates, and ride these alternate routes.
Scratch the surface of the Texas Lottery and you’ll find political opportunism, a cynical marketing campaign, and endless hype.
Decades after his family controlled Galveston’s liquor and gambling, 89-year-old Vic Maceo is clinging to his gangster past—and to his pistol.
What’s behind the Bureau’s bashing of its director, former San Antonio judge William Sessions? Go ask Alice.
After years of being alternately judged a great playwright and a great disappointment, Edward Albee has found his footing in Houston, where he teaches, socializes, and gets star treatment.
Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.
From Paris to Dallas, everyone’s asking, Will the bullet train ever get on track?
There’s trouble brewing at the Capitol this spring, and it has lobbyists and legislators foaming at the mouth. The issue? Your right to drink a glass of fresh, tasty beer.
So what if Barney’s New Age niceness annoys some parents? His TV show is a hit with toddlers—and a financial bonanza for the Dallasites who brought him to life.
Since AIDS infected their lives, the proud, the deeply religious Allens have been left to ponder the eternal questions of faith and suffering.
All across Texas, vandals are searching for ancient treasures by looting Indian campgrounds—including the one on my family’s ranch.
He waffled about the Senate seat, then sought safe harbor in Bill Clinton’s cabinet. Why did Henry Cisneros choose HUD over headlines? Only he knows for sure.
Twenty years ago, we were two-steppers. Now we’re twelve-steppers, thanks to a set of self-help gurus.
For years he renounced his Texas ties. Now Larry McMurty is once again calling Archer City home.
Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.
Not long after she made her trek from Texas to New York, Marla Hanson saw her modeling career end at the hands of a razor-wielding thug. Six years later, the cuts on her face have healed, but the emotional wounds remain.
He’s no longer at the helm of Neiman’s, but 87-year-old Stanley Marcus still knows how to run a successful business. Just ask him.
It seemed like the perfect inside job: A respected cop conspires with his teller girlfriend to pull the biggest bank heist in San Antonio history. If they hadn’t been so careless, they might have gotten away with it.
Janis Joplin’s life was about music, rebellion, and excess—but she was influenced most by her tormented relationship with the people and spirit of Port Arthur.
When Chuck Smith kidnapped his own small boys to keep them from his estranged wife, a simple divorce case turned into an international family feud.
Once, the State of Texas was going to put Kenneth McDuff to death as payment for his crimes. Instead, it set him free to murder again.
Who came first—Indiana Jones of Hollywood or Vendyl Jones of Arlington, the archaeologist who has spent years trying to dig up the fabled Ark of the Covenant?
The way two mysterious deaths affected the town of Childress says a lot about the lure of satanism and the power of gossip.
Two prominent families, one soapy feud. What could be better for a summer miniseries?
Maybe not. But then again, the veteran Texas pol has never taken no for an answer.
Critics call it brutal and barbaric, but it may be the most effective treatment for sex offenders.
From the YMCA pool to the ocean blue, I’ve always been at peace in the deep.
For six years, my landlord and his wife were the perfect neighbors. Then he was accused of murdering her—and suddenly I didn’t know what to believe.
With bulldozers poised to plow through their family’s historic spread, three San Antonio sisters are waging war against the state department.
To hear some women tell it, nature created two genders, one nearly perfect and the other badly flawed. I wonder whether they’re right.
A report from the front lines in the battle of the sexes—inside the Aggie corps.
Director Oliver Stone may not be sure who did it or how, but he is sure he knows why.
Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.
Some Vietnamese immigrants live the American dream. But for the family of Vu Dinh Chung, the dream turned into a fatal nightmare.
Her critics used to say that Houston’s mayor was a great administrator but a bad politician. Now, on the eve of her toughest race, her critics are saying just the opposite.
But he’d rather not leave CBS to return to Texas, at least not yet.
All I wanted to do was photograph the running of the bulls. I never intended to risk my life.
Sure, they were gangsters, but they were our gangsters.
And now, speaking for the poor and downtrodden, Ernie Cortes.
A tale of rivalry, intrigue, and foul play in the science lab.
Never before had a correctional officer been tried for the murder of an inmate—and never before had such chilling details been revealed about how our prisons really work.
In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.
Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.
