More than thirty dogs (and one miniature horse in a lifeguard costume) hit the waves in Galveston for a dog surfing competition to raise money for a local animal shelter.
After technical problems rendered CenterPoint Energy’s power-outage map useless in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, a 55-year-old Tomball resident discovered that the store-locator feature on the Whataburger app displaying whether restaurants were open or closed worked as a reasonably good substitute.
Two million dollars’ worth of rare baseball cards were stolen from a dealer at the Dallas Card Show, in Allen.
A couple of Houston natives won the most recent season of the reality dating series Love Island USA.
A volunteer firefighter from Alpine was charged with arson after allegedly starting multiple brush fires in Jeff Davis and Brewster counties.
Two Marble Falls teenagers pranked their community by putting up a sign suggesting that an outlet of the fast-food chain Raising Cane’s was “coming soon,” though the company has no plans to add a store in the area.
A 35-year-old woman from Stephenville was sentenced to five years in prison for creating multiple counterfeit identities—including professional matchmaker, travel agent, and investment adviser—to scam a Wisconsin man into sending her more than $1 million.
Shortly after sunset, a giant ring of what looked like black smoke briefly floated in the sky above Pearland, baffling both residents and weather experts.
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake—the sixth strongest in Texas history—was recorded in Snyder.
This article originally appeared in the September 2024 issue of Texas Monthly. Subscribe today.
