The Associated Press
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The Cougars were Big 12 regular-season champions this season after making the move into that power conference. They play blueblood Duke on Friday night at the home of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, about 250 miles from the Houston campus.
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Hector Ortiz, who spent the past 18 years as a manager and coach in the Texas Rangers organization, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 54.
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Texas prosecutors have dropped murder charges against two people in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Seattle woman as a trial continues with the third defendant.
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Miro Heiskanen scored two goals, Stars captain Jamie Benn recorded his 500th career assist and Dallas won 6-3 Monday night over the Detroit Red Wings, who were without injured captain Dylan Larkin and suspended forward David Perron.
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A small plane crashed and burned Tuesday on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas, killing the pilot and causing a nearby car to catch fire, but nobody on the ground was injured, authorities said.
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American Airlines flight attendants are asking federal officials for the right to go on strike, possibly before the end of the Christmas and New Year's travel rush, but American said there was “no possibility” of a walkout over the holidays.
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Johnson won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 1992 and 1993 seasons during his five-year tenure with the Cowboys.
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United Auto Workers union members have voted to approve a new contract with General Motors, making the company the first Detroit automaker to get a ratified deal that could end a contentious labor dispute and a series of crippling strikes.
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The mother of a 22-year-old transgender Dallas woman who was fatally shot in 2019 has tearfully insisted to the man who pleaded guilty in the slaying that she’s carrying on the advocacy work her daughter started. Stephanie Houston, the mother of Muhlaysia Booker, was among the people giving victim impact statements in court on Thursday.
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The new indictment of Nate Paul alleges that he defrauded business partners. It adds to earlier charges that the Austin-based real estate developer made false statements to mortgage lenders to obtain $172 million in loans.