- The state climatologist announced that last year was the wettest on record in Texas since record-keeping began, in 1895.
- Citing bad behavior, a Converse high school locked students out of restrooms during class time for two weeks.
- Two men changed the street sign for downtown Austin’s Bowie Street to David Bowie Street.
- Peter Mayhew, who plays Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, invited the family of a recently deceased fan of the movies to his house in Boyd to tour his collection of memorabilia.
- Corpus Christi police detained a man riding a bicycle and found in his backpack a full-size blow-up doll of Miley Cyrus that he’d stolen from a local porn shop.
- A 63-year-old bodybuilder in Longview was named one of the “8 Oldest, Most Jacked Men in the Gym” by Muscle & Fitness magazine’s website.
- An eighth-grade student in Killeen was suspended for disobeying a teacher when he rushed a classmate who was having an asthma attack to the nurse’s office.
- After yet another band had its equipment taken, Houston was unofficially named the “Stolen Music Gear Capital of the World.”
- A Plano woman, acting as a surrogate for her daughter, who was struggling with fertility issues, gave birth to her own granddaughter.
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Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
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