An Austin driver got stuck behind a Waymo driverless vehicle that was confused about how to navigate around a Tesla Cybertruck that had crashed into a Tesla robotaxi.
Eleven calves were stolen from a ranch in Coolidge by thieves who reportedly cut the fence and loaded them into a trailer.
When a Harris County man, who later told police that he’d started as many as thirty fires at various businesses out of boredom, was confronted in an act of arson, he allegedly began to fan the flames using a sweater.
A Dallas thirteen-year-old built a nuclear fusion reactor.
After a Roma man was caught returning from Mexico with 121 pounds of methamphetamine in his truck, he told officers that he was delivering the vehicle to his aunt, whom he couldn’t name or describe.
A Willow Park man was charged with a third-degree felony after he submitted a largemouth bass whose stomach was found to contain fishing weights to a tournament whose total prize value exceeded $10,000.
Firefighters in Longview rescued two people from a hot-air balloon that crashed into a communications tower nine hundred feet above the ground.
A man believed to be responsible for at least seven Houston burglaries, which he committed by entering through windows and doggy doors, was described by one victim as “like a nightmare Spider-Man or a Spider-Man from hell.”
A Paris Whataburger went viral on social media after the manager was captured on video repeatedly whacking an alleged attacker with a trash can.
This article originally appeared in the May 2026 issue of Texas Monthly with the headline “Meanwhile, in Texas.” Subscribe today.
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