Texas college student goes missing on way home for Christmas break; wrecked car found abandoned

A convicted man from Texas has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to fraudulently obtain free Spirit Airlines flights for himself and others, as well as making fake employee identification badges in order to get the flights, prosecutors said. The defendant, identified as Hubbard Bell, 32, from Houston, had previously worked for Mesa Airlines, which gives its employees free tickets for Spirit Airlines flights as a perk.

The College Football Playoff semifinals on ESPN on New Year’s Day that sent Alabama and Ohio State to the national championship drew an average of 19 million total viewers between them, ESPN said Tuesday, in line with last year’s numbers.

A Texas boy, 15, was charged with murder Sunday after surveillance video showed him beating his mother to death, police say. The boy's father called police to the family's home in McKinney, Texas, just before 1 a.m.

A Harris County deputy was killed in a motorcycle crash on Saturday after leading a funeral procession, authorities said.  Sgt. Bruce Watson had been with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for 20 years.The sheriff’s office said Watson had just finished on off-duty job leading a funeral procession when his motorcycle was struck by a vehicle.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Sunday that the Supreme Court is a "better forum" than Congress for vetting election fraud concerns. "I wish the court had taken one or both of those cases," Cruz told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo. "I think the Supreme Court would be a better forum for resolving those issues.That obviously was the forum which resolved issues similarly in 2000 in Bush v.

A U.S. Army drill sergeant in Texas who was found in her car, shot multiple times, died early New Year’s Day, according to reports.

 Beyoncé ’s Christmas gift to her girlfriends, her song makes more sense now.

Chris Harrison taking his final bow in Bachelor Nation? Some fans think so.Rumors swirled around the longtime reality TV host, 49, on Tuesday, December 29, after The New York Post’s Page Six reported that he’s moving to Austin, Texas.

A star college football player has reportedly died after what is being termed as an “accidental shooting” overnight on Christmas night in Denton, Texas.

No shenanigans here. Christmas came early for one waitress in Texas, who reeled after receiving a $1,100 tip from a generous group of customers.

Four Texas children abducted and considered in grave danger have been found hours after an Amber Alert was issued for them. The alert was issued Sunday morning for Gabriella Garcia, 10; Julian Garcia, 7; Sebastian Garcia, 3; and Giovanna Garcia, 2, who had been missing for several days.

New details have emerged in the brutal 2011 Christmas day attack that shook the Grapevine, Texas, community after a father dressed as Santa gunned down his entire family over reported financial struggles and a drift from his wife and children.

Universities have recently been rocked by cheating scandals as remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic allows students more tools and access to circumvent the rules, according to reports. In Texas A&M, students were found to answer questions faster than they could even read them on a finance exam.

DALLAS -- A West Texas oilman's mural-sized print of an Ansel Adams photo has sold for nearly $1 million at an auction.Sotheby's New York, the auction house, said Tuesday that “The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming” sold for $988,000, a record price for Adams at auction.The photograph, taken on commission for the Department of Interior in 1942, shows a view of the mountains over Jackson Hole.

Staff Sgt. Nicole Pompei didn’t intend to start her own business this year, but after she turned her old Air Force uniform into a wreath, people immediately started asking her to make more.

A Texas woman who dumped the body of her 1-year-old daughter into a lake, then carried a life-size doll she claimed was the child, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Tiaundra Christon, 23, was found guilty of tampering with a corpse in connection with placing her deceased daughter's body in Moses Lake in Texas City in 2018, according to KRIV-TV.

Fort Worth police were investigating the apparent shooting death of an employee at a car dealership, according to a report Tuesday. It happened at Bill’s Auto Sales on Monday and the shooting may have been the result of a burglary, according to Fox 4 Dallas.