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A $8.6 million industrial rail park will soon be built in the rural West Texas town of Levelland.
West Texas cotton producer Steve Smith continued to harvest Wednesday, happy that the weather on this end of the growing season is far better than its beginning.
The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid of a West Texas ranch was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage."
A Democratic senator on Thursday called on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project, saying it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs — a claim strongly disputed by the project's developer.
After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction in its first trial of a sect member charged with sexually assaulted an underage girl.
Bigamy charges against the leader of the House of Yahweh religious sect in West Texas have been dropped as part of a plea agreement.
A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided.
The world's largest wind farm officially got up and running Thursday, with all 627 towering wind turbines churning out electricity across 100,000 acres of West Texas farmland.
A Texas judge ruled Friday that prosecutors could use thousands of documents seized during a weeklong raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch in upcoming criminal trials even though search warrants were prompted by faked reports of abuse.
Randy Quaid was given a ride from a small West Texas jail to get bail money from a bank after the actor and his wife were arrested for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 California hotel bill, according to the sheriff who drove him.
Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas.
The only child left in state custody after being swept from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch was placed permanently with a relative on Thursday, ending one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history.
A pair of businessmen are unhurt after one safely landed their small plane on a West Texas highway when it lost power.
Ten men from a polygamist sect asked a judge on Monday to bar prosecutors from using thousands of documents seized from their West Texas ranch during their trials, saying law enforcement did little to verify the domestic abuse hoax on which the raid was based.
Ten people have been arrested in the theft of about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate from oil companies and producers in West Texas.
More than two years ago, a pair of former administrators at a remote West Texas juvenile prison were indicted on charges accusing them of sexually preying on teenage boys at the facility — a development hailed by the state's attorney general as a first step toward justice in a statewide scandal.
Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has surrendered to Texas authorities to face burglary and drug-related charges.
The mayor of this West Texas sheep ranching town offered a stunning explanation when he suddenly resigned: He was in love with a man who was an illegal immigrant and had gone to Mexico.
The mayor of a West Texas city abruptly resigned Wednesday, picking love over his love of office.
A hearing on evidence seized at a polygamist group's West Texas ranch is over, but no decision has been made on whether the evidence will be admissible at trial.
Authorities leveraged a fake abuse claim to justify a massive raid of a polygamist sect's ranch when their true purpose was to persecute an unpopular religious group, attorneys for 10 indicted members of the sect said Wednesday.
A weekend riot at a federal prison in Texas caused "significant" damage that won't allow it to resume normal operations, the prison's operator said Tuesday.
In the West Texas oil patch, they can see the downturn coming at them from miles away like a pickup truck kicking up a dust cloud on the horizon.
Eight years ago, this West Texas city hosted a send-off as then-President-elect George W. Bush headed for the White House. The community is now poised for a welcome home celebration.
Rove to Speak at West Texas A&M in AmarilloYou are a college student in West Texas, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in modern history who is from your state and who has had an incalculable impact on your life is going to speak at your commencement and you never heard of him.
Timothy Egan: Faith of Our FathersThe Texas polygamy case shows why, when it comes to religion, revisionism isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Soldier's children die in accident on way to Army hospital | Denton Record-Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas | Latest NewsSpc. Johnson's luck began to turn with the last IED blast, which left him with a traumatic brain injury. Back in Texas for care at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, he was eagerly awaiting a visit by his wife and three children last weekend.
The Latest Battle in the Bible WarsOne can't wander far on the oil-rich plains of Ector County without a sign from God.
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