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Dark clouds provide a backdrop for power lines. (credit: David McNew/Newsmakers)

Thousands Lose Power During Texas Storms

Overnight storms in the DFW area and West Texas have left tens of thousands of homes and businesses without electricity.

2013/06/06

Abilene Officer Quits After Fort Worth Arrest

A West Texas police officer has quit after being arrested in Fort Worth on charges of public intoxication and firing a gun in a public place.

2013/05/08

A surveillance camera picture from a convenience store in Abilene on April 24, 2013 showing missing North Richland Hills teen Ruby Contreras and alleged kidnapper Andrew Cox. (credit: North Richland Hills Police)

Police Release Surveillance Photos Of Missing NRH Girl

Police have released a new surveillance picture of missing North Richland Hills teenager Ruby Contreras and the man she is traveling with, suspected child molester Stephan Cox.

CBS 11–2013/05/01

Man Charged For 1983 Fort Worth Murder

Authorities say DNA evidence has tied a 48-year-old man to the 1983 cold case killing of a businessman in North Texas.

2013/03/08

Kids At Fort Worth Hospital; Mom Arrested For Abuse

One child is dead, another two hurt – one seriously after a reported child abuse case at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene. The children’s mother is under arrest.

2012/08/29

Steel towers carry power transmission lines. (credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Texas Woman Gets $1.4 Million Electric Bill

People often gripe when they get high electric bills, but an Abilene woman’s bill was nearly $1.4 million. She called her provider and quickly learned that the bill was an error.

2012/06/26

Cookie Smith shows off a giant egg laid by one of her chickens Monday. The egg contained a yolk and egg white, along with another fully-formed egg. The normal-sized egg weighed 55 grams, while the "super egg" weighed 145 grams. (Photo courtesy Greg Kendall-Ball/Reporter-News, reporternews.com)

Super-Sized Hen Egg Had Another Egg Inside

A Texas woman discovered an egg the size of a baseball in her chicken coop, and was even more surprised by what she found when she cracked it open — another full egg.

2012/06/01

Emergency crews drop fire retardent slurry while battling a running wildfire that is threatning homes on April 19, 2011 in Strawn, Texas. (credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Texas Firefighter Charged With Setting Wildfire

A volunteer firefighter in Texas has been charged with setting a wildfire last year. Taylor Dupree Partain was charged in connection with a May wildfire.

2012/03/30

The inside of a jail cell. (credit: AP Photo)

Work Programs for Inmates Scale Back

A county jail in West Texas is cutting down on work programs for inmates.

2012/03/18

This file photo shows a single-engine plane flying through the air. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Plane Crash Kills 2 People In West Texas

Authorities say two people have died in the West Texas crash of a small plane that disappeared on a flight to Oklahoma.

2012/02/21

An 'electrophonic' meteor passed across the North Texas sky Wednesday night. Photographer Kevin Palivec captured this image from a remote camera in Coleman, Texas, near Abilene (Credit: Kevin Palivec)

Meteor Streaks Across North Texas Sky

The FAA has confirmed a meteor likely passed across the sky of the Southwest United States Wednesday night, with many people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area hearing and feeling the sonic boom.

2012/02/01