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On the Line: Will a Dallas-to-Houston Bullet Train Revolutionize Texas?

By Eric Nicholson and Dianna Wray
Aug 18, 2015

Clarence E. Sullivan arrived in Ellis County in 1890 to seek his fortune. Though barely 18, he was already well-tempered by life. A runaway buckboard had killed his parents when he was a child, leaving him to be raised by an older brother who scratched out a meager living outside...
Blue Bell's Listeria Problem Is a Sticky Mess

By Dianna Wray
Jul 1, 2015

As he pulled out of Brenham's Blue Bell factory without any ice cream in the back of his delivery truck in April, Tim Smith (not his real name) couldn't shake the feeling he was forgetting something. After almost a decade of delivering ice cream for Blue Bell, Smith had been...
Dark Side of the Boom

Prosperity in Texas has a way of rising and falling with the oil business. But not for everyone.

By Dianna Wray
Jul 31, 2014

It was like landing on the moon. The thought ricocheted through Joleena Malugani's mind as she took in the vast, dusty expanse of the corner of West Texas claimed by Midland and Odessa. Malugani was fresh out of college when she came across an Ector County Independent School District booth...
A Texas Boy's Summer Camp Nightmare

An 11-year-old sent to the Hill Country's Camp La Junta returns to his family with a horrible secret.

By Dianna Wray
Mar 13, 2014

Correction: (March 9, 2015) In the story below, we incorrectly state the charges to which Matthew Bovee pleaded guilty. Bovee pleaded guilty to injury to a child, a third-degree felony. Mark smashed his ear to the phone. Even in the crowded cafeteria, he didn't want anyone else to hear what...
Contort Through Kundalini

By Dianna Wray
Jul 7, 2011

You may go to The Kundalini Yoga Experience to build character and all that sort of thing, but, I guarantee, you'll stay for the panting. Kundalini yoga is supposed to build oneness with nature. We're not sure if you really get closer to God through stretching and panting, but you...

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