Arman Badrei

More than three thousand people were locked up in the South Texas camp, which closed 76 years ago today. Internees and descendants have joined forces with community members to honor their shared history.

A Wise County sheriff’s deputy, responding to a complaint that someone had dumped spaghetti on a man’s yard, determined that the culprit was the caller’s neighbor, who had thrown a dish his mother made for him onto the man’s property. A man lying unconscious in a bullet-hole-ridden truck in a San Antonio parking lot failed for hours to awaken as law enforcement officers, worried because they spotted a gun beside him, yelled at him through a loudspeaker, detonated a flash-bang grenade, and on…

Ivery Dorsey has proclaimed his innocence since he was arrested and convicted of murder in 2007. Now, he has help in his fight for freedom.

A 106-year-old World War II veteran beat his own record as the oldest person to tandem skydive when he jumped out of a plane over Fentress—and was joined in the endeavor by Governor Greg Abbott. Someone allegedly stole a city-owned wildlife camera in Live Oak without realizing it was still sending photos to the police, who identified the man from images of him sitting half-naked in bed and promptly arrested him. The City of San Antonio offered residents H-E-B gift cards, ranging in value…

At the end of the first quarter of Texas Tech’s Battle for the Saddle game against Texas Christian University, a possum ran across the artificial turf before being dragged off and safely released, though only after receiving a calming stroke along its back courtesy of Tech president Lawrence Schovanec. Tomball’s police and fire departments were called in when two bald eagles in a family’s front yard were unable to fly away because their talons got tangled while they were fighting over a scra…

A Girl Scout troop swimming at Huntsville State Park narrowly escaped an encounter with a roughly fourteen-foot alligator that they later nicknamed Karen. A Colleyville restaurant rolled out a $39 State Fair Bloody Mary that’s garnished with a turkey leg, a corn dog, a funnel cake, a caramel apple, grilled corn, celery, and bacon and comes with a beer the customer can drink while waiting fifteen minutes for the “cocktail” to be assembled. A burglar who apparently attempted to steal a lap…

A San Antonio artist collective sponsored by Hormel Foods built the world’s biggest piñata, a hundred-foot-tall elote filled with 1,920 bags of Corn Nuts. Six Cuban nationals were indicted in Houston for allegedly trafficking more than three hundred songbirds, which are highly valued by gamblers who bet thousands of dollars on competitions in which birds are judged on the complexity and musicality of their tunes. After a spear flew through the windshield and into the steering wheel of th…

A snake dropped from the sky, coiled itself around the arm of a Silsbee woman, and was then attacked by a hawk that bloodied the woman, who later concluded, “This probably is never going to happen again.” Border Patrol agents in Brownsville arrested a juvenile who was allegedly trying to smuggle seven critically endangered baby spider monkeys into the country in a backpack. A Houston woman went to Ukraine to support the war effort by working as an “emotional support stripper.” A Texas m…

Archaeology and architecture groups banded together to bring a mudhif, a town hall for the Marsh Arab tribe of Iraq, to Rice University.

Plus, a Houston bakery added a family-size croissant to its menu and a man fleeing from the police decided he was really, really hungry.