Texas

Pair of giraffes born in Texas only the second of such births ever in the U.S.

A mother from Texas put her son up for adoption on Craigslist because she was "overwhelmed." Find out more here!

Tornadoes tore through North Texas, killing at least six and injuring dozens.

Texas paramedic Bryce Reed charged with possessing bomb making materials; connection to blast at West, Texas fertilizer plant as of yet unknown.

Judges rules banners with bible verses are permissible at high school sporting events.

African snails, a giant species of land snail and potential carrier of meningitis, have been found in Houston, Texas. Residents are advised not to come in contact with these creatures and report if they encounter them.

Pearl Cantrell of Richland, TX who said bacon is the secret to a long life garners a visit from Oscar Meyer.

The Texas Rangers have made World Series appearances 2 of the last 3 seasons. Already a month into the 2013 campaign, are the Rangers currently among the 5 best teams in the league?

Narco singer Chuy Quintanilla was found dead with two bullets in his head.

Richard Cobb, convicted of killing a man in East Texas in 2002, twisted his head and told the warden, "Wow! That is great. That is awesome! Thank you, warden! Thank you [expletive] warden!"

MotoGP 2013 at Austin, Texas, begins Sunday April 21. Find out how you can watch the Sunday race!

12 bodies have been recovered from the blast site following the Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

Emergency teams were still in search-and-rescue mode today, trying to find survivors of the explosion in West, Texas. "It was massive, just like Iraq, just like the Murrah building in Oklahoma City," said a Texas state trooper.

An explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in a small north of Waco has left 160 injured

Perry was a foremost contributor to Republican causes, reportedly giving $23.5 million to conservative Super PACs in 2012.

The Texas baseball institution passed away on Thursday. His funeral is scheduled for Monday at First Baptist Church of Warren.

Dozens are injured and at least two have been killed in a bus crash on the President George Bush Turnpike near Irving, Texas.

Reports of as many as 14 people being injured are coming out of southeastern Texas after two individuals allegedly went on a stabbing spree at a local community college.

Two inmates including a man accused of capital murder escaped from Hopkins County Prison in Sulphur Springs, Texas, northeast of the city of Dallas.

Kaufman County, Texas, District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were the latest deaths in slayings of Texas law enforcement in recent months.

A third George Bush is seeking political office.

Johnny Manziel's name had been whispered with reverence all season long, but no one could have predicted the Texas A&M quarterback's preternatural performance in Friday's Cotton Bowl victory over the Oklahoma Sooners.

While most doomsday prophecies and new age soothsayers place significance on Dec. 21 as the date of the apocalypse or other surreal events, one Texas man was so convinced something big would happen on 12-12-12 he carved a pentagram into his six-year-old son's back.

Longtime Texas congressman Jack Brooks, who represented his Southeast Texas district for 42 years and was in the Dallas motorcade in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 89-years-old.

Princeton University researchers have said changes to college admission policies in Texas have been detrimental to Hispanics.

A special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Washington rejected a controversial Texan law that would require voters to show photographic identification before casting ballots. The law would require voters to present one of six forms of photo ID before casting their ballots.