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LA MARQUE, Texas — A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into ...
Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.
Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Ed Levine | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
Serious New York eaters like me tend to romanticize the biscuits we find ourselves eating here, so we overstate their deliciousness, but Brooklyn Star's biscuits are the real deal.
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The social networking Web site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially ste...
Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...
David Adkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Despite encouraging signs of growth in the economy the unemployment crisis is going to be with us for a long time to come. It has left states caught in a vice between plummeting revenues and rising needs.
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
ELDORADO, Texas — The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texa...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
There are lots of places to start looking if we want clues as to what happened at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. One obvious clue is Virginia Tech....
Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.
AP | HEATHER CLARK | Posted 11.03.2009 | Denver
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Authorities say a man arrested in Colorado is suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas over 15 years, and recent...
David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.
Bill Moyers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
While so many Texans have fought and are fighting the good fight in the Judge William Wayne Justice tradition, others believe in the law only when it sides with them.
AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
AUSTIN, Texas — A 25-year-old convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped tow...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Calling public service "the essence of our liberty," President Barack Obama on Friday urged Americans to step up and vo...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Texas Governor Rick Perry insisted again on Wednesday that the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham was appropriate and that Texas did not, contrary t...
John Terzano | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Of the more than 40 people exonerated by DNA in Texas, one of the most heartbreaking cases is that of Timothy Cole, whose exoneration came too late. In 1999, he died in prison of asthma.
AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
HOUSTON — A Houston man found asleep with a corpse inside a closet of a vacant home has been charged with misdemeanor drug offenses, authorities...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
More research needs to be done on the companies supplying the vaccines for the troops. They and their well-connected investors are subsidized by the government, which supplies troops for human testing.
John Terzano | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The Texas Forensic Science Commission controversy is ultimately not about politics or the death penalty. At stake is the integrity of scientific evidence in Texas courtrooms, and the erosion of public confidence.
Carl Pope | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons wants to make Texas the dumping ground for as much of America's nuclear waste as he can.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
Charlie Wilson, the former Democratic representative from Texas and the inspiration for the movie (and book) Charlie Wilson's War sat down with the Sc...
Alexia Parks | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
So the Secret Service has discovered that the person who put the "Should Obama be Killed?" poll on Facebook was only a kid, and they've shut the books...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy
A Texas judge's ruling that two gay men married in another state can get a divorce in Texas has drawn the ire of opponents of gay divorce there.
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AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home