An equine surgeon and Texas A&M professor has been convicted of animal cruelty after repeatedly shocking a horse in front of ...

The sounds of the Taiwanese Hokkien language don’t resemble Mandarin Chinese, which drifts from the throat in soft wisps. Nor ...

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.” ...

Media attention often focuses on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t ...

Railways have long defined these East Texas towns, and the Texas State Railroad aims to keep that history on the books. I pulled up to the train depot in the East Texas city of Palestine, $220 ...

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Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of murder in 1999 under Texas’ “Law of Parties.” He says he had nothing to do with the killing.

Since the Kingdom of Life Academy moved from its location at the Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Tyler to its own 23-acre space in town, they’ve struggled to get enough students to keep afloat ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue.