• 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.