Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to…
Larry Hagman, who created one of American television’s most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of Dallas, has died.
The 80-year-old actor, who starred as JR in long-running US series <i>Dallas</i>, will go ahead with filming TNT’s revival of the soap.
Three-times world surfing champion Andy Irons was found dead on
T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just 500 in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned…
Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Texas…
A 114-year-old woman, considered the oldest person in Texas, has died at a Dallas retirement home. Arbella Perkins Ewings celebrated her birthday on March 13 with a proclamation…
Comic-book hero Captain America may not be back from the dead, but he is back — sort of. After Marvel Comics unexpectedly killed off the champion of liberty and the American way…
The video-game industry’s annual showcase is saying goodbye to scantily clad booth babes, extravagant, multimillion-dollar exhibits, blaring lights and pounding music. Celebrity…
The upcoming violent video game Manhunt II faces an uncertain future after being banned by at least two countries and facing a ratings controversy in the United States. But the…
Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for strangling his wife and her mother. Christopher Swift, a 31-year-old labourer, was the third inmate put to death since…
Each day, millions of people around the world gaze at their computer screens to explore a dangerous fantasy world of treasure-filled dungeons and flame-breathing dragons. It’s…
Nasa planned to undock the space shuttle Discovery from the International Space Station on Tuesday after an eventful mission that included a crucial rewiring and the retraction…
Few icons are as American as the cowboy hat: grandiose, utilitarian and a trademark of the West. The king is still Stetson, the original cowboy hat, created almost 150 years ago.…
Pension fund trustees from seven states and New York City demanded to meet with Exxon Mobil’s independent directors to discuss what they called the oil company’s failure to…
Three people were killed and at least six injured when tornadoes moved through north Texas, a county official said on Wednesday. At least one tornado touched down late on Tuesday…
An ordinary fruit sticker that mysteriously ended up on a bill could spur currency collectors to bid up to 1 000 times the bill’s face value at an auction on Friday. The flawed…
The Nobel laureate and gentle giant Jack Kilby, who has died of cancer aged 81, was acknowledged as the inventor of the microchip. He had just joined Texas Instruments in 1958…
A homecoming tradition in which boys dress like girls and vice versa in a tiny Texas school district won’t be held on Wednesday after a parent complained about what she regarded…
Breaking his silence amid ”the despair that is killing” him, a sobbing Craig Martin, who suffered abuse at the hands of a priest at age 11, captivated a grief-stricken audience…
