Texas oilman's Ansel Adams photo gets $988,000 at auction

Rep. Pat Fallon, a former Notre Dame football player with a big personality, says the future of the Republican Party will be more accessible, likable and inspirational.  The Texas Republican who openly considered primary-challenging Sen.

The family of a 19-year-old soldier found dead in Fort Bliss, Texas last week said she had been sexually assaulted by another soldier a year before her death and was "ready to fight" for justice in her case.

Just days into 2021, the state of Texas is already facing a grim new record.  On Sunday, the state set a new coronavirus hospitalization record, with some 12,563 people in Texas currently hospitalized with COVID-19.The new record represents more than a 240-person increase from the day prior, per official estimates.  "The numbers are going up. Everything is trending in the wrong direction — new cases, hospitalizations and the positivity rate," said Dr.

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.

Three Harris County sheriff’s deputies were injured and a woman was killed in a shooting early Sunday morning outside a nightclub in Houston, authorities said. The shooting unfolded around 2:20 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.

A local pastor has been killed and two others have been injured after a shooting at Starrville Methodist Church in East Texas, according to the Smith County Sheriff's Office. Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said during a news conference that the confrontation occurred around 9:30 a.m.

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.

The Texas Supreme Court blocked local orders establishing an overnight curfew for restaurants to help limit the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports. The court issued the order Friday, conditionally granting state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petition to block enforcement of orders in Austin and surrounding Travis County.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden when Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes next week.

A Texas father of two shot and killed one of three intruders who entered his home Sunday and held his family at gunpoint, according to local reports. The following day, the home on 18th street in Port Arthur was also the apparent target of a shooting around 6 p.m., and a a few hours later a fire was reported there around midnight, Port Arthur News said.

Variety reported that he would — for the first time in the long history of either “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” — miss several episodes of “The Bachelorette” and be replaced temporarily by Season 12 contestant JoJo Fletcher.He explained to viewers that he was just taking a break to take his son Joshua to college, and it would take some time to return to set because COVID procedures — which have allowed the spit-swapping show to continue shooting despite the pandemic — required him to

and The Bachelorette be without Chris Harrison? This dude has been lurking on set of ABC's long-running reality franchise for years, but his future as host appears to be uncertain amid reports that he's packing his bags and moving to Texas. was the first to report this news, saying that Chris is building a home in Austin's trendy Barton Creek area.

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.

Crystal Munoz, who President Trump commuted the remaining term of supervised release from prison last week, told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday that she "was definitely over sentenced" for a marijuana offense. "I was definitely over sentenced and there are thousands of women and men that are just like myself who are serving very severe sentences for the crimes they committed," Munoz said on Sunday.

A popular Texas resort was in lockdown Friday night after reports of a possible active shooter. Law enforcement swarmed the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine after 10 p.m.

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.

Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, called it a "no-brainer" Tuesday to oppose the recently passed coronavirus relief package, calling the process behind its passage a disgrace to taxpayers.