Target, one of the nation's largest retailers and one of the holiday season's most-shopped stores, has released its 2016 Black Friday Doorbuster ad circular early, revealing 40 pages of deals and promotions that begin as early as today.

In "The Magnolia Story," Chip and Joanna's new memoir, Waco's favorite couple rewind their story to their personal pre-reveal time when both their relationship and business were still very much under construction.

After an argument in the office, Cesar, then a 16-year-old sophomore, uttered a profanity in the hallway, was arrested and struck 18 times with a metal nightstick by a school police officer, including nine blows while he was on the ground, recorded on school security cameras. The incident - described in a $1 million civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday - is not the only one in which a Pasadena Independent School District officer used force again...

Whether telling you there's a car in your blind spot or parking for you, vehicles can increasingly communicate with drivers and try to intervene to prevent accidents. WiFi not only allows the kids to stream Netflix in the back seat on a road trip, it can make music, maps and information available through the dashboard, rather than connecting to a phone. [...] travelers could access in their cars road-trip itineraries created on computers. Came...

Yet truancy will be a subject hotly debated in the 84th session of the Texas Legislature, with some policy makers more concerned about this age-old topic than border control or tax cuts. Only two states, Texas and Wyoming, prosecute children by sending them to adult criminal court with the charge of "failure to attend." A 17-year-old boy assigned to an alternative school 30 miles from home missed class because he had no transportation. The stu...

Kohl's, one of the nation's largest retailers and one of the holiday season's most-shopped stores, has released its 2016 Black Friday Doorbuster ad circular early, revealing 64 pages of deals and promotions.

The neighborhood is becoming more fashionable, with art galleries and restaurants displacing the modest shoe stores the area is known for. The most recent restaurant to open on Rue Meslay is called the Beast, and it is the first authentic Texas barbecue joint in Paris. During the same trip, Abramowicz spent a week at the J&R Manufacturing facility in Mesquite where he ordered an all-wood burning Oyler brand barbecue pit and learned how to use i...

He says his mother, a professor at Sam Houston State University, occasionally enlisted him for some of her studies at the school. [...] he recalls his fourth-grade class in Huntsville was watched behind a two-way mirror for a research project. [...] since 1991, when he released the influential independent film "Slacker," Linklater has flipped the script and played the part of observer. If the medium of cinema can be likened to a piece of crock...

The new H-E-B store at 1601 Nogalitos St. will carry five times more craft beer than previously offered, 300 different wine labels, expanded produce and deli sections and a "travelator."

The City Council approved an agreement with former CBS subsidiary Outfront Media last month and may consider another deal with Sign Ad in the coming days that would see the two companies remove dozens of billboards, some voluntarily. The City Council first adopted the much-debated sign code in 1980, governing the location, size and height of billboards and business signs and banning any new billboards. Many of these expired boards remain up, Ci...