Hanging out with the AirHogs of Grand Prairie.

Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.

Sprawling ranches. Rare animals. Rich folks with guns. Welcome to the state’s booming business of stalking wildlife from around the globe.

A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.

In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state, and change incarceration in Texas forever.

Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.

On the trail in Texas with Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.

On the deadly explosion in West, Texas.

An essay on those who don’t get caught by health care’s so-called safety net.

What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?

Texas juries send people to death row by making predictions about future violence. Racial bias has often played a troubling role. In the 1970s, one Supreme Court case paved the way.

A writer’s evolving relationship with guns.

On the U.S. immigration prison-industrial complex.

A profile of the first-term senator.

What a state can teach us about a nation.

An attorney pieces together a life cut short.

The economics of Woonsocket, where one-third of residents rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.

For the past 70 years, the Circle L 5 Riding Club in Fort Worth has been honoring the legacy of its forefathers.

The noon chimes in the bell-clock tower rising above him to the building's 307-foot pinnacle sounded: pom-pom-pom-pom . . . 16 notes, high and sweet. Some say the chimes say a poem: "Lord, through this hour "Be Thou my guide, "For in Thy power "I do confide." After the chimes, there is a long pause -- 23 seconds if you hold a wristwatch on it -- time enough for a practiced man to reload three rifles and a shotgun.

“Doc” Quigg’s wire report on the 1966 Texas Tower shooting on the campus of UT-Austin.

“The cowboy hats, target practice, and barbecue brisket were just a bonus. They were really there for the deregulated electrical grid.”

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