An inmate who allegedly beat to death his cellmate, an accused child molester, earlier this month in a Texas jail said “God and his mother” told him to do it because the man was “Bin Laden.”

A judge has committed a 56-year-old woman to a psychiatric facility after she and her boyfriend told a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two-dozen worshippers that the massacre was a hoax.

Climate change may be pushing storm-prone US region to more densely populated areas
Five years ago, on 17 November, 73 tornadoes barrelled across the US midwest, killing 11 people, injuring more than 100 and costing about $1.6bn in damages. It was an exceptional event but in future the region may have to brace itself for more tornadoes.
The most tornado-prone part of the country extends from northern Texas, through the Great Plains of Oklahoma and Kansas then into Nebraska. Some of the most powerful storms spin up in this area, known as Tornado Alley.

Federal authorities have awarded two contracts to build additional border walls in the Rio Grande Valley. Landowners in the area have mixed reactions to the project.

Dozens of people reported seeing a fireball as it streaked across the sky over Central Texas. The non-profit American Meteor Society says it was also seen from Louisiana and Oklahoma. (Nov.16)

Texas' Board of Education has approved future changes to the history curriculum that retain lessons on Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, as well as instruction about how Moses influenced America's Founding Fathers and how clashes over states' rights helped cause the Civil War.

Christopher Precopia, 21, was facing 99 years in prison after he was accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home in 2017, assaulting her and carving an “X” on her chest, but a selfie proved his innocence.

There were pictures to prove where he was at the time, and they were posted on Facebook. Timestamped. Geo-located.

A New Jersey woman part of an elaborate conspiracy involving her boyfriend and a homeless Philadelphia man allegedly texted her friend saying "so shush about the made up stuff," after the launch of a GoFundMe campaign that deceived donors of more than $400,000, a prosecutor said Thursday.