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The former Australian fast bowler derided Cricket Australia’s head of cricket as a “club cricket coach that throws underarm balls to kids”. It wasn’t...
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Eight students who were on a field trip were stuck on a Texas roller coaster for several hours on Thursday evening after the ride suddenly stopped near the top.
All passengers who were stuck on a roller-coaster on Pleasure Pier in Galveston, Texas, have been rescued. Some of those passengers were stuck on the roller-...
SkyEye13 is over the scene as crews rescued riders who were stopped upright on Pleasure Pier's Iron Shark roller coaster in Galveston.
A teenager was hospitalized when he was bitten by a shark off the Texas coast Monday. Here's why officials are trying to reassure beachgoers.
A 17-year-old was hospitalized Monday after suffering serious injuries in a shark bite incident near Galveston, officials said.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A swanky stockyards-themed venue in this Texas city hosted a far-right politician whose candidacy for a top state oil regulator positio...
The lawsuit comes after a Galveston County family said their 13-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by a person she interacted with on the platform.
Texas Beach Watch tracks bacteria levels at Galveston beaches daily. Here is what the data shows heading into Memorial Day weekend and how to check it yourself.
The university said the new facility comes as the operations at its current temporary hospital facility have outgrown the space.
Sargassum is washing up on Texas beaches. NOAA is watching it closely
A Galveston mother is speaking publicly after her son was killed in an officer-involved shooting during a traffic stop Monday night. Texas Rangers are invest...
The Coast Guard says crews with Texas Parks and Wildlife have recovered the body of a man who went missing while kayaking in West Galveston Bay.
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A roller coaster in Texas malfunctioned during a vertical climb, stranding eight students nearly 100 feet off the ground for hours
22-year-old Caleb Burge succumbed to his injuries after the van he was in was involved in a wrong-way crash on Monday.
BAYTOWN, Texas — A Baytown woman says her nearly $9,500 federal tax refund was deposited into an unknown person's bank account after filing with a San Anto...
Four people were killed after a coach bus collided with a van in Port Arthur, Texas on Monday.
President Trump is in Beijing meeting with China's President Xi Jinping, with the two leaders aiming to stabilize their trading relationship after last...
A Texas-based financial services firm, Higginbotham, has agreed to acquire Moraine employee benefits brokerage McGohan Brabender, expanding its reach while m...
A Jasper, Texas teen is recovering after being struck by lightning while fishing with his mother during Mother’s Day weekend storms.
A Houston Methodist employee was stabbed in a parking garage in the Texas Medical Center on Monday morning.
Controversy over Muslim-only Texas waterpark event and organizer
According to police records, Joseph Nguyen, 23, was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center on Wednesday, May 6.
Data center construction is unpopular among locals, and a majority of the facilities are being proposed in red, rural counties. That puts Texas Republicans i...
(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-TX, and her north Texas colleagues have called for a federal investigation into alleged H-1B visa fraud o...
Hut 8 said on Wednesday it had signed a 15-year lease worth US$9.8 billion for its Beacon Point data center campus in Texas, as demand rises for infrastruc...
Construction of SpaceX's Terafab chip factory in Texas could eventually cost up to $119 billion, a notably higher figure than analyst predictions.
The delivery driver who kidnapped and murdered a young girl was handed the death sentence as her family 'try to honour the beautiful little girl whose life w...
The brothers and their parents were taken into federal custody earlier this year during a required immigration check-in. The story caught the ear of a countr...
(The Center Square) – Roughly one week after the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed Texas a win on its border security law, SB 4, the law is facing
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says 14-year-old Derek Garcia was reported missing after leaving his home on May 23 and not returning.
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A Southwest Texas College student died, and another was injured after an incident on the school’s Uvalde campus, according to a news release obtained by KSAT.
Kylie Overfield, the 2-year-old who underwent a successful rare double-lung transplant at Texas Children’s in 2024, has died. Her family says her legacy li...
Eight students who were on a field trip were stuck on a Texas roller coaster for several hours on Thursday evening after the ride suddenly stopped near the top.
Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes is opening the first Texas location of her Dominique Dawes Academy in Jersey Village on May 30, 2026, offering gymnasti...
A roller coaster in Texas malfunctioned during a vertical climb, stranding eight students nearly 100 feet off the ground for hours
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Multiple southbound lanes on Interstate 35 at Loop 1604 are closed after a crash on the Northeast Side, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
Lacy Lakeview, a Waco suburb, said it is considering a data center project in efforts to boost their spending power to repair aging roads.
A federal appeals court allowed Texas to require app stores to verify users’ ages and seek parental consent before a minor can download apps.
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