“Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.”
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Plano Senior High Alum’s Instagram Quest to Find 1,122 Former Classmates
“An optometrist and Pokémon master Minh Nguyen has tracked down nearly 200 former classmates. It may have saved his life.”
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The Outlaw Tradition of Noodling for Catfish
“The secretive, centuries-old outlaw tradition of noodling reaches its peak every summer at a Lake Tawakoni tournament with the kings of catfish.”
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No One Wanted Them to Win: Texas’ First Baseball Champions
“They could feel their accomplishment slowly being forgotten. The memory of their championship dying with them.”
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The Noblest of Things
“The next day, I opened the hive and there were no bees.’
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Inside the Texas Crime Lab That’s Cracked Hundreds of Cold Cases
“The killing of Catherine Edwards, in Beaumont, long remained unsolved. Then came Othram, a start-up whose breakthroughs in DNA technology are helping identify bodies and solve decades-old murders and rapes.”
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‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
“Ultimately, Granbury is just one canary of several in the proverbial mine.”
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The Elusive Erykah Badu
“Twenty years ago, she dropped Baduizm, the album that created a genre. I wanted to know how she did it and found something I hadn’t bargained for.”
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The Eviction Cure
“What happens when a prominent Dallas attorney gets ticked off about thousands of his fellow citizens being thrown out of their homes in violation of the law? Courtroom fireworks, for starters.”