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Robert Waltman / Getty Images The 42-Mile-Long ‘Dune Express’ Conveyor Belt Is Moving Sand in Texas
Environmentalists are concerned that the ruthless efficiency of the Dune Express conveyor belt will only lead to more drilling.
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25ehaag6; 400tmax / Getty Images Original Quarry Used to Build the Alamo Found at San Antonio Zoo
Texas is spending hundreds of millions to keep the Alamo alive.
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Westend61 / Getty Images Texas Middle Schoolers Shared a Needle to Tattoo Themselves Mid-Class
Risking hepatitis in the name of the lord.
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(Photo via CSA-Printstock / Getty Images) Sex Toys Could Soon Be a Lot Harder to Find in Texas
A law passed in 2003 made it illegal to own six or more vibrators or dildos.
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Texas Teacher Certification Scam Got Jobs for 200+ Unqualified Teachers, Including Sexual Predators
Over 400 people paid $2,500 each for someone else to take the Texas teacher certification exam on their behalf. Half of them got jobs.
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Koko Bongo night club, one of the 9 bars shut down Houston's Operation Bad Traffic bust. (Google Maps) Operation Bad Traffic Pulls 84 Sex-Trafficking Victims from Houston Bars
Officials called the bars “an actual house of horrors,” describing sexual abuse “some 30 times a day.”
