- A Slaton man deposited five hundred pounds of pennies, equaling about $816, which he’d been collecting for 65 years.
- As of January 22, Amarillo had received 13.1 inches of snow in 2015, an inch more than Syracuse, New York, “America’s Snowiest Big City.”
- The Dallas Safari Club, which last year faced criticism for auctioning off a hunt of the endangered black rhino, faced criticism again for sponsoring an African elephant hunt, which it eventually canceled.
- A Rice University student imported 13,000 plastic balls of various colors from China in order to turn his dorm room into a ball pit.
- An Austin man chased a robber out of his house with a sword and an antique gun.
- A Galveston police officer had a co-worker pull over his girlfriend and attempt to arrest her before the officer himself arrived and asked her to marry him.
- After a Houston-area Whataburger employee complimented a customer on her mink coat, the customer handed it to her via the drive-through window and left.
- Odessa was named the most dangerous city in Texas by the FBI.
- A Waco weatherman returned to work wearing a Superman T-shirt just one month after being shot by an unknown assailant.
