If not for the three of spades, Dale Stonecipher might have lost the poker game.

It's hard to imagine a sadder life history: Halle was born premature, at 27 weeks, to a drug-addicted mother, was fed all her life through a feeding tube, suffered convulsions, tuberculosis, meningitis, a broken arm and a stroke, and died last year, a few weeks before her ninth birthday, weighing just 15 1/2 pounds - the weight of an average 8- or ...

We're a small, family friendly renaissance faire located in Dale, Texas about an hour south east of Austin.

A pair of Austin entrepreneurs lured investors to a uniquely Austin business venture Friday night on the ABC reality show "Shark Tank." Erin Whalen and Tim Stansbury, creators of Austin's Grease Monkey Wipes, appeared before the shows investor "sharks" in hopes of obtaining $40,000 in funding in return for a 40 percent stake in their business.

Travis Baczewski has been indicted on a capital murder charge in the death of his own mother, killed in her South Austin home in July.

A three-vehicle crash on Texas 21 near U.S. 183 on Wednesday night killed two Lockhart High School girls and injured a third, Mustang Ridge police and Department of Public Safety officials said today.

Willie Thomas, 65, a retiree living in southeast Fort Worth, finally grew tired of waiting for his lease bonus check from Glencrest Resources, the company that leased his property in November 2006 for drilling in the then-red-hot Barnett Shale natural gas play in North Texas.