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TCSO said it received multiple calls reporting that someone had been murdered on Monday, shortly after 4 p.m., at a home in ...

A Texas heat wave could produce record high temperatures this week. Austin has opened cooling centers to help residents stay ...

A reader asks why Onion Creek is so named. We looked in the American-Statesman archives and asked area experts.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Houston, the Brazos Valley and the Interstate 10 corridor until 4 ...

The recent fire at Del’s Charcoal Burgers, one of the oldest restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth, made us pause for this month’s ...

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All U.S. service members aboard the USS Harry S. Truman have been accounted for and are safe after a fighter jet, an F/A-18E ...

Now, a wave of colony collapses in Texas is threatening the bees we rely on and the food supply they help sustain. Texas farmers are seeing major declines in their honeybee populations. According to ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has taken another step toward formally renaming the Gulf of Mexico on state maps and documents. Senate Bill 1717, which finally passed the Texas Senate 20-11 this week ...