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Read full article: Gov. Abbott announces $30,000 reward for suspect wanted in Rio Grande Valley businessman’s murder Xavier Andre Pipkin-Jarrell was arrested on Thursday, Jan. 8 in Spring Branch, ...

You'll feel like you're vacationing in two totally different parts of Texas when you visit this city's boardwalk marina and ...

A heat dome brought warmer temperatures as the holiday season came to a close, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

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None of the Golden State's nine GOP lawmakers have spoken against new drilling, even as their Florida colleagues push back ...

Families with options are quietly rewriting the American map, packing moving trucks not just for better schools or cheaper ...

Texas is the winter home of the Aransas-Wood Buffalo population, the only wild, self-sustaining flock of whooping cranes left on Earth. The birds migrate each fall from breeding grounds in Canada to ...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, is one ...

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