- Five Texans were charged with stealing sixty pounds of dinosaur bones near a dig site in Utah.
- A Dayton correctional officer became the first female champion of the state’s biggest amateur bass fishing tournament.
- After escaping from a hospital, a Jasper County jail inmate hid in a dishwasher before getting caught.
- A San Antonio police officer’s belt radio stopped a bullet.
- A man protested same-sex marriage by suing Harris County to let him marry his laptop.
- In Longview, a “beef bandit” led police on a high-speed chase while hurling stolen Walmart steaks at his pursuers.
- A Katy midwife rode an inflatable swan through flooded streets to a client who was in labor.
- A customer at a Mansfield diner threatened to sue the restaurant when it ran out of soup.
- A tiger wearing a collar and leash was found roaming the streets of Conroe.
- A war veteran working as a Border Patrol agent sued to be reassigned to an out-of-state job, saying that South Texas triggered his post-traumatic stress disorder because it reminded him of Afghanistan.
- Food artists from Pennsylvania created a five-hundred-pound butter sculpture of the Texas Tech Masked Rider.
- A school cafeteria was named after a longtime lunch lady in Waco.
