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High beef prices fueling rustling revival

GIDDINGS, Texas – Record beef prices have led to increases in the number of missing or stolen cattle. The nearly 5,800 livestock reported stolen in Texas last year was the most in...

DATE: Aug 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Remember this Alamo, too

Replica built for ’60 movie losing battle to time, nature

DATE: Jan 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas to allow inmate weddings in prison

HOUSTON – Texas plans to allow marriage ceremonies inside prisons between an inmate and an intended spouse who isn’t incarcerated, officials disclosed Tuesday. Inmates in Texas hi...

DATE: Nov 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Rescued calf gets high-tech prosthetics

HOUSTON – Hot and tired from a three-hour drive inside a trailer behind a pickup truck, the 600-pound English Charolais calf was content to lay on the grass behind a south Houston building w...

DATE: May 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas executes man despite opposition from Mexico

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas drone research center conducting tests

SARITA, Texas – The next big thing in American aviation sounds and looks like an oversized leaf blower with wings and a tail, has duct tape keeping some of its pieces in place and must be ca...

DATE: Jan 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas executes man for corrections officer’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday evening for the death of a corrections officer during a short-lived escape from prison six years ago. Jerry Martin, 43, had...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Charges in case of men found held in Texas home

HOUSTON – A 31-year-old man was charged Saturday in connection with the discovery of four malnourished men being held against their will in a dungeon-like Houston home. Walter Ren...

DATE: Jul 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas executes man who confessed to killing 5

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A man who confessed to killing five people during a six-month crime spree in southeastern Texas 15 years ago was put to death Wednesday for the fatal shooting of a firefi...

DATE: Jun 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

4 firefighters killed in Houston motel fire

HOUSTON – Four firefighters searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant Friday were killed when the part of the structure collapsed and ensna...

DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Teen still missing after Texas flood

SCHERTZ, Texas – The search intensified Sunday for a teenage boy believed swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said. ...

DATE: May 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man killed after firing shot at Houston airport

HOUSTON  A man who had fired a gun inside a ticketing area at Houstons largest airport was killed after being confronted by a law enforcement official during an incident that sen...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World