Walk for Your Lives! Deadly Giant Snails Are Invading Texas
A Houston woman discovered a giant African land snail in her garden—a slimy horror of a creature that is as disgusting as it is deadly.
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A line of deadly thunderstorms struck North Texas late on Wednesday, dropping giant hailstones and a series of tornadoes that leveled whole subdivisions. Six people were killed and as many as 14 were still missing as of Thursday morning.
A Houston woman discovered a giant African land snail in her garden—a slimy horror of a creature that is as disgusting as it is deadly.
While the country's remained fixated on the aftermath of the Boston bombing, a deeply disconcerting set of details about last week's fertilizer plant explosion in Texas has been largely overlooked.
Two days after a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught fire and exploded, 60 people remain unaccounted for in the town of 2,807 as of Friday night.
As expected, former justice of the peace Eric Williams has been charged with capital murder for killing three people in Kaufman County, Texas, earlier this year.
In another surprise twist in the investigation of the two North Texas district attorneys, the wife of the man considered to be the prime suspect has confessed to the crime and implicated her husband.
The man who was previously considered a "person of interest" in the murders of two Texas District attorneys, has been upgraded to the chief suspect and is now in jail on other charges.
Two Texas inmates — one accused of strangling someone with a shoelace — enjoyed little more than two days worth of freedom before U.S. Marshals busted them roughly 20 miles from the prison from which they escaped — and neither man was wearing any pants.
Recent killings of law enforcement officials are horrible, shocking news. But there's little reason to think that it marks a new trend, despite the media's shark-attack-style coverage.
Texas authorities have identified a "person of interest" in their investigation of the slayings of two district attorneys, but this new lead could take the case in another direction.
Two inmates — one accused of strangling someone with a shoelace — used their feet to make a mad dash to freedom Tuesday when they successfully broke out of a Texas prison.
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia Woodward McLelland were found slain in their Texas home Saturday evening and some are connecting their deaths to the January killing of McLelland's assistant district attorney.
The 36-year-old son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush — and nephew of former President George W. Bush — announced his run for Texas land commissioner on Tuesday afternoon, making him the latest (and youngest) Bush to set his eyes on political office.
Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams tries to capture the root anxiety driving the most recent attempt at secession in Texas, where she documented — and, in a few cases, encouraged — several citizens' ongoing struggle to win independence from the U.S.
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With five hours to spare and ongoing questions of racial bias in her jury selection hanging in the balance, a Texas judge granted reprieve to the first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010.
The proposal by David Dewhurst, though light on details, is one of the highest-ranking endorsements for placing guns in the hands of teachers from an elected official since the Newtown shootings.
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Thomas L. Friedman on Syria, Chuck Thompson on Texas, Vali Nasr on drones, Christopher Dickey on Jordan, and Doyle McManus on Obama's cabinet.
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Voter ID laws have received plenty of attention recently, but they're not the only controversial changes to election rules this year. Some states have made changes that critics say could impact individuals' ability to vote. Here are four.
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The states allows school officials to spank teenagers of the opposite gender, apparently. On top of that insane fact, one commenter noted that the spanking policy has a huge flaw.
School officials at Springtown High School in Texas have no problem with spanking, so much so that they voted last night to allow administrators to spank students of the opposite sex because there aren't enough women to mete out "corporal punishment."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that this year's west nile virus outbreak was the nation's largest ever, and suddenly it does seem pretty serious, if not downright scary.
Texas police say that Thomas Alton Caffall was the gunman responsible for a shootout that left a law enforcement officer and a civilian dead that began after Caffall was, yes, served an eviction notice.
At a press briefing, Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum confirmed to reporters that two people have died following the shooting in a residential neighborhood near Texas A&M: Brian Bachmann, a Brazos County Constable, and an unidentified civilian. The alleged shooter has also been reported killed.
The oddest thing about Tuesday night's execution of a convicted Texas murderer with an IQ below the generally accepted competency level was the role the work of John Steinbeck played in the debate around it.
Those declaring the Tea Party "dead" may want to look at what just happened in Texas last night: A Tea Party candidate who was at 2 percent in the polls at the outset of his campaign, easily won the state's Republican Senate nomination.
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Here's a new entry in our apparently on-going examination of our favorite Texas election law: A city council race in Webster, Texas was decided by the roll of a dice.
Today in Ad Watch: President Obama's campaign says Mitt Romney's embrace of Donald Trump says something about his character, while Karl Rove's Super PAC says that while Bain Capital might be bad, Obama's "Wall Street games" are worse.
Like any city, El Paso, Texas, makes goofy, oversimplified tourist maps for visitors, but in 2010 it oversimplified the map so much that it deleted its violence-plagued neighbor to the south, Ciudad Juarez.
The Associated Press is highlighting a fun story: a Texas city council election resulted in a tie, and rather than spend the city's money on a re-vote, the candidates decided to just flip a coin, which is apparently something that Texas election law actually allows.
The Associated Press on invasive species and flooding, The Guardian on wind turbines, NPR on Indonesia's mangroves, the BBC on koalas, and The New York Times on silo trees,
The Associated Press on soldiers in the melting Arctic, The Texas Tribune on uranium mining, Christian Science Monitor on solar panels in Germany, The Washington Post on saving the seahorse, and The Guardian on the drought in England
In your potentially troubling environmental news of the day, there are only two states in the U.S. that aren't experiencing "abnormally dry" or drought conditions, meaning that the country is the driest its been since 2007.
Activist Ralph Nader has written an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook urging the company to refuse the nearly $30 million in Texan taxpayer money already pledged to lure the company to build a $304 million campus in Austin.
The New York Times on combined heat and power, The Denver Post on a looming drought, The Associated Press on floating architecture, The Guardian on the complexities of carbon footprints, and Fast Company on saving ocean wildlife
Two very scary looking tornadoes have touched down in Dallas county Tuesday afternoon, and they've already caused some damage, with North Texas under tornado watch until at least 8 p.m.
Monday's best green reads: NPR on the Texas drought, Mother Jones on anti-coal activism, The New York Times on uranium-mine radiation, The Guardian on measuring global warming, and Good on an eco-friendly pantry.
While the voter identification laws passed in several states have become a national political debate, the Justice Department blocked Texas's law Monday for extremely local reasons.
While we're excited that Apple's decided to expand its operations in the United States, it's very difficult not to be cynical about the details.
A chef in Houston had an absolute meltdown over a bad blog review, and on Tuesday night he invited anybody who disagreed with him about how to handle the bad press to "Come say it to my face."
Rick Perry is trying to get back some of the swagger he lost by failing so badly in the Republican presidential primary by tweeting pictures of himself with weapons.
A Supreme Court decision today means that Texas still doesn't know the boundaries of its 36 congressional district, which is a bit of a problem since primaries for those congressional seats are only three months away.
The teen who accidentally got deported to Colombia spent a lot of time doing what lots of American teens do: talk about drugs, sex and boredom.
A 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in 2010 was mistakenly deported to Colombia, despite being an American citizen who doesn't speak Spanish.
It was a campaign ad hand-tailored for the Republican base but Rick Perry's 30-second spot decrying "Obama's war on religion," is fueling a new genre of mashups and parodies for the Internet.
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