Best-selling author John Grisham has joined a cross-party group of politicians, lawyers, scientists and doctors in warning that Texas is about to execute an innocent man convicted of a crime that was never committed. Grisham, whose legal thrillers include The Firm and The Pelican Brief, have been the subject of Hollywood blockbusters, spoke Tuesday about… Read More »
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has violated environmental regulations by repeatedly releasing pollutants into or near bodies of water in Texas, a state agency’s violation notice said, focusing on the flooding system at the Starbase launch facility. The notice from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) last week comes five months after the Environmental Protection Agency’s… Read More »
HOUSTON (AP) — Sharon Carr was frustrated. Like many people left without power after Hurricane Beryl slammed into the Texas coast earlier this week, she headed to a cooling center in Houston to escape the summer heat, even as the city’s power company warned that it could take longer than expected for everyone’s power to… Read More »
TULSA, Okla. — Jeanette Batchelor-Young had been searching for her roots for years when she got a message that would change everything she thought she knew about her origin story. There were still too many gaps in her family history: Batchelor-Young had lived with her father for a short time until he died, and then… Read More »
Director Ti West’s breathtaking horror trilogy reaches its bloody and spectacular conclusion in the new film MaXXXine.Emphasis attractive—this film is set in the dark, bleak world of 1980s Hollywood, where over-the-top makeup, acid-washed jeans, and big hair are all the rage. We first fell in love with Maxine (Mia Goth) in 2022 X, a moment… Read More »
With a new summer heat dome forming this week in Texas and much of the American Southwest, many residents are struggling to cope with an oppressive new normal made worse by climate change. “It got hotter [for] “The hot spells have been extended,” Dan McAtee, a retired manufacturing engineer who has lived in Austin, Texas,… Read More »
Stronger hurricanes grow more frequently and cause more damage to U.S. coastal cities. As a coastal engineer, Jens Figlus works to protect the coastline from these threats. He lives in Texas, which was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. However, his house was safe because it was 5 meters above sea level. Jens Figlus vividly remembers the… Read More »
Dr. The first calls Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners concerned about the deaths of crows, pigeons and other birds on their Texas farms. Then came the news that the barn cats, half of whom were on the same farm, had suddenly died. Within days, the Amarillo veterinarian began hearing about… Read More »
Tudor Uhlhorn was too busy auctioning off farm equipment to lament the “death” of Texas’ last sugar mill. “I’m as upset as anyone,” said the chairman of the board of directors of the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Planters cooperative, which owned a now-shuttered mill in Santa Rosa, a small town about 40 miles from Brownsville.… Read More »