The chief deputy sheriff of Presidio County reported on social media that U.S. Border Patrol agents had spotted a zebra walking alone on FM 170.
A Wichita Falls woman was sentenced to six years in prison for sending inmates materials that included leather-bound Bibles that contained pages soaked in synthetic cannabinoids.
Two City of Austin IT senior staffers were fired for allegedly working simultaneously for the City of Dallas in similar roles.
A man threw a bucket purportedly containing human bones over the fence of the FBI Dallas field office to “summon” authorities and then posted a video of the incident to YouTube.
A baby beaver that had apparently been washed from its den by heavy rains was found on an Austin sidewalk and taken in by a rescue group, which wrote on Facebook that after “a few tiny beaver tantrums,” staff members were able to begin nursing it back to health.
A Montgomery County man who was pulled over for speeding in a school zone tried to avoid a citation by allegedly falsely telling officers that a Conroe High School student had a gun.
Rangers at Inks Lake State Park, near Burnet, discovered a cluster of white bluebonnets.
An employee of the Cherokee County jail was arrested and booked into the same jail after authorities said they discovered that he was falsifying his time sheet.
A San Antonio cat that had wandered around the city’s East Side with a plastic jar stuck on its head for days was freed by a woman who reportedly said the cat then “ran off like he stole something.”
This article originally appeared in the June 2026 issue of Texas Monthly with the headline “Meanwhile, in Texas.” Subscribe today.
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