It was exactly ten minutes after seven on Thursday evening, June 12, that Mrs. Lela Bass, 73, stood combing her long gray hair in the backyard of her white frame house in Port Neches, Texas.
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Who Needs a Husband?
Jodie Hannaman grew up in Houston, a city as fond of formal weddings as of barbecues and rodeos.
TEXAS: Death of a Duke
In tiny San Diego , seat of Duval County in the heart of the south Texas triangle, a team of sheriffs, marshals, and Texas Rangers was closing in on its man. Then it spied the fugitive's 1969 Chrysler Imperial at the edge of a quiet pasture, and the search was over.
The Grass-Fed Revolution
Until he saw the light, Jon Taggart–6 ft. 5 in., jeans, white cowboy hat, Texas twang–was a rancher like any other in the southern Great Plains.
Breast Pumping on Rise As Moms Choose Not to Breast-Feed
When Crystal Byrd’s second child was born, the doctors urged her to place her baby to her breast.
Military Probing Deadly Shooting Rampage
FORT HOOD, Texas — Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas. The suspected shooter, Maj.
Original KISS drummer celebrates surviving breast cancer
A year after beating breast cancer, Peter Criss, a founding member of the rock band KISS, calls himself “the luckiest man in the planet.” While some men feel embarrassed because of “this macho crap,” Criss said surviving breast cancer — yes, men get it, too — was actually a blessing. He was treated before the tumor could spread and said he’s speaking about male breast cancer now — during National Breast Cancer Awareness month — to raise the profile of this rare disease.
Raped at 8 and left for dead, a victim raises her voice
For nearly 20 years Jennifer Schuett has held onto every memory of the night she was abducted from her bedroom, raped and left for dead. It was August 10, 1990.
Randy Quaid, wife arrested over hotel bill
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, were arrested in Texas on Thursday. They’re accused of skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill, authorities said
Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug dies at 95
Nobel laureate Norman E.