Silsbee Highschool cheerleader kicked off squad for refusing to cheer for player who raped her. A Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad for refusing to chant the name of an athlete she said had raped her will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate her free-speech suit against the school district, her lawyer says. The cheerleader and her parents are also challenging federal court... 

The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, the first United States case to strike at the heart of the company’s main search business. The issue at hand, referred to as search neutrality, is whether Google manipulates results to thwart competitors and advance its own businesses. Some companies worry that Google has the power to discriminate... 

President Barack Obama has declared a federal emergency exists in Texas as Tropical Storm Alex builds toward hurricane strength and approaches south Texas and northern Mexico. According to a White House statement issued Tuesday, Obama gas ordered federal help to augment the state and local responses to the developing emergency. The declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency “to... 

Debbie Riddle A Texas lawmaker says she plans to push for a law similar to Arizona’s get-tough immigration measure. San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle report Wednesday that Republican Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball says she will introduce the measure in the January legislative session. The new Arizona law would require local and state law enforcement to question people about their... 

Update 5: The IRS gave us this statement: “We can confirm that a small plane hit a building in Austin, Texas that includes IRS offices. This is the Echelon 1 Building, which houses about 190 IRS employees. We are still in the process of accounting for all of our employees. We will be providing updates as more information becomes available.” Update 4: This appears to be Stack’s manifesto. Update... 

A 71-year-old woman accused of recruiting family members to marry foreigners seeking green cards plead guilty Wednesday to taking part in an immigration fraud conspiracy. Federal prosecutors said Maria Refugia Camarillo, of Fort Worth, Texas, faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced in September. She also must provide a $35,000 lien on her home. Investigators said that... 

Dressed in a orange jumpsuit and with his hands and legs shackled, Jewish cricket tycoon Sir Allen Stanford arrived at court today to face allegations he masterminded a £4.2billion fraud. Laywers for the Texas billionaire, 59, told a judge that he denied running a giant Ponzi scheme. But Dick DeGuerin, defending, revealed he had turned to alcohol to deal with the stress of the accusations. ‘Allen... 

A Texas scientist advocates killing nine-tenths of the world’s population by an airborne Ebola virus, writes John Ballantyne. An award-winning Texas scientist was given a standing ovation after he advocated the extermination of 90 per cent of the Earth’s population by an airborne Ebola virus. The University of Texas evolutionary ecologist, Dr Eric R. Pianka, was addressing the 109th meeting... 

At a massive 73-stone, Kenneth Brumley must lose weight, or die. His daily intake of 30,000 calories is the same as a regular-sized man eats in two weeks. For four years he’s been confined to a bed which buckled under his weight and powerless to move his gigantic legs. Only deliveries of fast food from his partner Serena break the monotony of the day. Because of this weakness for junk food, Kenneth... 

Christopher Lee McCuin A man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly eating her after cooking her body parts on the stove has been found dead in jail. Christopher Lee McCuin, 26, was found dead Sunday in his Smith County, Texas, jail cell, officials told the Houston Chronicle. Smith County Justice of the Peace James Meredith said McCuin was pronounced dead at East Texas Medical Center. Foul... 

Christopher Lee McCuin killed and then cooked his girlfiriend. He said that "God made me kill girlfriend". Deputies responding to a 911 call in this East Texas town found a gruesome scene: a human ear boiling in a pot on a stovetop and a hunk of flesh impaled on a fork sitting atop a plate on the kitchen table. Authorities believe that the man arrested in the death of his 21-year-old girlfriend... 

Grandpa Barron Hilton plans to donate 97 percent of his fortune to African Americans. Hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity. That wealth includes $1.2 billion Barron Hilton stands to earn from both the recent sale of Hilton Hotels Corp....