Surveillance as daily life along the Texas border.

Paramedics pick up the pieces on the Texas-Mexico border.

On the mysterious death of a high school basketball star in Dallas.

A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.

In a few short hours, a normal evening along Texas’s Blanco River became the site of a deadly flash flood.

Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman entered the University of Texas at Austin’s Main Building. Armed with a number of rifles, he proceeded to kill 14 people and wound 32. Among them was a pregnant Claire Wilson.

How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.

How two love-struck, type A high schoolers almost got away with murder.

Sandy Jenkins was a shy, daydreaming accountant at the Texas headquarters of Collin Street Bakery, the world’s most famous fruitcake company. He was tired of feeling invisible, so he started stealing — and got a little carried away.

Brian Chavez was supposed to be the one who made it out of Odessa. It didn’t turn out that way.

A Texas love story.

On the ground with a young Texas doctor who travels the state to provide abortions.

When rival gangs confronted each other in the parking lot of a Hooters-esque restaurant, bullets flew. But was the whole a police setup?

How a Texas university eagerly accepted a top football player as a transfer even though he had just been kicked off another school’s team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

Hanging out with a member of the paranoid, nativist extreme right-wing.

An investigation into the mass graves in Texas that contain the remains of migrants.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

Doc was a medical student in his 40s, but he spent his nights with the teenagers who hung around his San Antonion apartment complex, buying them drugs and booze. The first time he asked one of them to ritualistically kill him, they laughed it off. He would ask again.

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.

A horrifying animal attack turns into an examination of rural life.

"Admit it. You want to jump to the part about Bubba tearing into Child, who still has no identifiable name. This story isn't about Child; it's about the town and its assumptions. But since I cannot narrate the story of the assuming town without touching on what it is they assumed upon, I will tell you the parts of the Bubba/Child story that will elucidate they and their assumings."

The mystery of a death in Dallas.