I don’t want to bore you, but I’m having the best, worst time of my life,” laughs Shakey Graves. That’s more or less the ...

Cedric Ricks spoke in his own defense at his 2013 murder trial, something most defendants accused of a terrible crime do not do. Ricks confessed that he had killed his girlfriend, Roxann Sanchez, and ...

Eagles have landed. The bald eagles’ nest is littered with a half-eaten fish and feathers from prior meals. Sadly, on Feb. 10, Kayleigh Bucur, executive director of the John Bunker Sands Wetland ...

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Watching Republican members of Congress these last two days follow the president’s flip-flopping on the Iran war justification reminds me of sheep herds pivoting quickly in response to their herding ...

Here’s that strange feeling again – hope. After Tuesday’s primary election, you have to have at least a little. First of all, there are the voting numbers. As Tuesday dawned, the Houston Chronicle ...

Here’s that strange feeling again – hope. After Tuesday’s primary election, you have to have at least a little. First of all, there are the voting numbers. As Tuesday dawned, the Houston Chronicle ...

We’ve only included results in contested races. Incumbents are denoted with an (i). In races in which no candidate received 50% of the vote, the top two vote getters will go to a runoff election on ...

Some big-name musicians, when they’ve got a packed show, don’t let anyone in the club see them until it’s time to go out and play. It makes their entrance more dramatic. Maybe that’s what was going on ...

Austin’s deadliest mass shooting in six decades tore through West Sixth Street early Sunday, killing four people, including the gunman, and injuring 13 others near Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden.

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