Two beloved snapping turtles were taken from a creek outside a Houston bar by one of its customers, who was planning to turn the animals into soup before outraged commenters on a social media post by the bar prompted him to return them.
A portion of Interstate 635 in Dallas was shut down after a truck belonging to a company that collects restaurants’ used cooking oil and meat by-products lost its load, spilling debris that included chicken and alligator parts across multiple lanes.
The mayor of Colleyville went viral online for suggesting that a nuclear bomb be thrown at Hurricane Milton to “see if we can stop the rotation.”
When a school resource officer accidentally shot himself in the leg while sitting in a parking lot at Marble Falls High School, three visiting Brackenridge JROTC students jumped into action, applying a tourniquet and calling 911.
A 41-year-old woman from Katy was charged with practicing dentistry without a license after one of her “patients” reported that a procedure had left her with bulky veneers, causing pain and bleeding gums.
A Tomball woman whose home was damaged by a storm was rewarded with a new house after a man started a GoFundMe to thank her for rescuing him from his SUV, which had been crushed by a tree during the same storm.
A comet that passes near Earth only once every 80,000 years was visible to the naked eye in Texas skies for almost two weeks.
This article originally appeared in the December 2024 issue of Texas Monthly with the headline “Meanwhile, in Texas.” Subscribe today.
