"I was just sitting there talking to my Dad, and suddenly an explosion went off in my pocket," Mann said.

Juan David Ortiz is suspected of killing four prostitutes and was arrested after a fifth woman managed to escape.

A US Border Patrol agent has been arrested in the state of Texas on suspicion of killing four prostitutes, reports say. Officers were looking for Juan David Ortiz after a fifth woman escaped from him and contacted police, AP reported. Mr Ortiz fled but was arrested in a hotel parking lot in the city of Laredo. Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar said police believed Mr Ortiz had acted alone.

Wendell Lindsey is serving life in a Texas prison, but his conviction relied on dubious drowning science and a key witness with secrets of her own.

A member of the Texas National Guard who was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border is accused of stealing methamphetamine that had been seized by Customs and Border Protection agents. The soldier, Pvt. Edwin Baez, a 30-year-old from the Houston area, allegedly stole about 3.3 pounds of the drug from CBP on August 1, according to a federal affidavit seen by the Associated Press.

A Texas sheriff’s deputy charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl and accused of threatening her immigrant mother with deportation if she reported him was found dead in his jail cell, apparently of suicide, the authorities said on Tuesday. The man, Jose S. Nunez, was found in his cell at Karnes County Correctional Center at 5:45 p.m. on Monday, said Sgt. Elizabeth Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. She said the Karnes County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Ranger Division were investigating.

ERCOT's pipeline of projects has ballooned to almost 80 GW. 12 GW of this is gas and the rest is wind and solar power plants, as well as 522 MW of energy storage.

As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile "spine" of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Texas Gulf Coast.

A Texas teacher, 44, faces a “balance bill” of almost twice his annual salary for a heart attack he never expected to have.

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm arrested more than 150 people Tuesday on allegations of immigration violations at a trailer manufacturer in North Texas, authorities said. Katrina W. Berger, special agent in charge of HSI's Dallas office said at a news conference, "With those numbers, this is one of the larger work site enforcement operations conducted at one site in the past 10 years."

The Frontera supercomputer will help study topics like global climate modeling and particle collisions from the Large Hadron Collider. The University of Texas at Austin will soon be home to one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The National Science Foundation awarded UT Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) a $60 million grant to buy and operate a supercomputer named Frontera, according to a joint statement Wednesday from the university and NSF.

A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, in a ruling released on Thursday. The lawsuit was filed in state district court in Austin by Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, parents of Noah Pozner, who was 6 years old when he was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

A Texas hospital that charged a teacher $108,951 for care after a 2017 heart attack told the patient Thursday it would slash the bill to $332.29 — but not before a story about the huge charge sparked a national conversation over what should be done to combat surprise medical bills that afflict a growing number of Americans.

A two-year-old boy in Houston has died after shooting himself in the head with an unsecured gun that he found inside his home, according to Texas police. The parents of the child - Christopher Williams Jr - were home at the time of the afternoon shooting, police say. Police believe a 9mm handgun found at the scene is owned by the boy's father. It was unclear if the parents will face charges.

A Houston woman accused of offering to sell her 2-year-old daughter for sex at a cost of $1,200 has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Sarah Marie Peters was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to charges that include promotion of prostitution.

The Justice Department today announced that a federal jury in Victoria, Texas, has returned guilty verdicts on all counts as charged related to the 2017 burning of a local mosque.

Shortly after the C-47 cargo plane took flight, it crashed and caught fire in Burnet, Texas, on Saturday.

A waiter at a Texas steakhouse made up the viral story about a customer leaving him a racist note, his employer said Monday. The story gained national attention after Khalil Cavil, a 20-year-old server for Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa, Texas, posted a now-deleted image of the receipt he claimed was left for him on July 14.

About two-thirds of Texas high schools are not following a state law that mandates giving all eligible students the opportunity to register to vote, according to a new report. That means hundreds of thousands of potential voters have been left off the rolls.

Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, is running out of a sedative used for lethal injections for the second time in 13 months.

A month after the story broke, the people of West Texas are, literally, praying for rain. The region has experienced heavy droughts in recent years. Despite the droughts, however, Texas is famous for denying the science behind things like climate change and evolution, and also for voting over and over again to de-regulate the oil

Hey, EV fans in Texas, you might want to wait until October 1st before purchasing or leasing a Nissan Leaf.

The 2013 Texas Craft Brewers Festival has now come and gone. Here's some photos and interesting takeaways from this years' event.

The State Fair of Texas is one of the biggest, longest-running state fairs of the country. It's steeped in tradition, from its livestock competitions to its architecturally significant Art Deco grounds. But perhaps the most important part of the Texas State Fair? Its role as America's fried food mecca.

Veterans from across the USA have yet to visit the memorial in their honor. This is one small group finally getting their chance.

It's big. It's hot. It's cheap. And, according to Tyler Cowen, it's where America's 'new cowboys' are blazing a path for the nation to follow

Several hundred gun rights activists armed with rifles and shotguns rallied Saturday outside of the Alamo in a demonstration that broke a longstanding tradition of not staging such events at the enduring symbol of Texas independence.

According to Eater, the Shake n Bacon Brew is a milkshake that was created in honor of Nascar and is now for sale at the Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas.

Texas hunting club auctions permit to shoot endangered black rhino in Namibia for up to $1 million in move conservationists call "disturbing".

Microsoft intends to source energy from a planned wind farm that will go up at a site about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, the company announced today. The wind farm, some 55 wind turbines in all, is expected to become operational by 2015. The deal also marks Microsoft's first long-term power purchase agreement for wind energy.

The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of

A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences correlates 93 small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2009 and 2011 with the underground injection of large volumes of gas, primarily carbon dioxide.

A team in Texas has broken the Guiness World Record for the largest gingerbread house ever built.

Located at the Traditions Golf Club in Bryan Texas, the larger-than-life gingerbread house officially holds the new Guinness World Record

A starving  and yet obese teen fights for life-saving gastric bypass surgery. The young Texas girl, Alexis Shapiro, age 12, is only 4 ' 7” tall but weighs 198 pounds. She is increasing that amount ...