Police in Texas acting on a tip found 17 immigrants locked inside a tractor-trailer parked at a gas station about 20 miles (30 km) from the border with Mexico, less than a month after 10 people died in the back of a hot truck ...
A third Boy Scout has died from injuries suffered when a sailboat struck an overhanging power line on a lake east of Dallas. Texas Parks & Wildlife spokesman Steve Lightfoot says the 11-year-old Scout died Monday. He was hospitalized in Shreveport, Louisiana, following the accident ...
KISS frontman Gene Simmons is udderly thrilled by a newborn calf born with strikingly similar black-and-white markings to the face paint he wears on stage. Simmons tweeted his admiration for the calf on Sunday, saying, "This is real, folks!!!" The calf was born Friday at a ...
Federal authorities say the fuselage of a restored Korean War-era plane came apart as the aircraft crash-landed just short of the runway at a West Texas airport, but that the pilot and passenger survived. The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine Hawker Sea Fury crashed ...
The driver of a broiling tractor-trailer found packed with immigrants outside a Walmart in San Antonio was charged Monday in the deaths of 10 of his passengers and could face the death penalty over the hellish journey. In outlining their immigrant-smuggling case against James Matthew ...
Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn's plan to build a display panel factory in the U.S. has sparked a flurry of lobbying by states vying to land what some economic development officials say is a once-in-a-generation prize. It's not just jobs that are up for grabs — ...
Eight people were found dead over the weekend in a tractor-trailer outside a Walmart store in the stifling summer heat in what police called a horrific human trafficking case, and the driver was arrested. Several other people, possibly dozens, were found in the truck, which ...
At least 11 people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday. Tornadoes hit several small towns in East Texas, killing four people. Three people were ...
A proposal to build a gondola lift in Austin that would have been incorporated as part of the public transit system in Texas' capital city won't be flying anytime soon. City and transportation officials concluded on Friday that they won't be moving forward with the ...
Gay rights groups and child welfare advocates raised alarm Monday over what they see as legislative attempts in nearly two dozen U.S. states to roll back recent anti-discrimination gains. The advocacy groups are particularly concerned over a new law in South Dakota that allows adoption ...
South By Southwest says former Vice President Joe Biden will give a speech at the festival about efforts to end cancer. Organizers announced Monday that Biden will be a featured speaker in Austin on Sunday, during the portion of the festival focusing on interactive technology. ...
High school athlete Mack Beggs, a teenager who is transitioning from female to male, won his 110-pound (50-kg) weight class in the Texas girl's state championship Saturday, according to media reports. Beggs, 17, and many of his opponents want him to wrestle against boys, but ...
