An 11-year-old Texas who was found dead in a river near Houston is remembered as a loving kind animal lover.

A Texas police officer who shot and wounded a teenager who had been sitting in his car eating a hamburger has been fired, police said.

Amid an exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season, the Texas coast is preparing for a tropical storm that could strengthen into a hurricane before breaching its shores in the days ahead. Both the city of Galveston and Galveston County on Saturday issued voluntary evacuation orders ahead of Tropical Storm Beta. The system is expected to be near hurricane strength as it...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington quietly replaced an artifact purported to be one of a handful of miniature Bibles that a NASA astronaut carried to the moon in 1971 after an expert questioned its authenticity.