Drought, hail and blowing sand have robbed the world’s largest contiguous cotton-growing patch of 50 percent of its acreage this year.

Two men are behind bars accused of intentionally setting fire to their home near Magnolia earlier this month. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze when he fell through a hole in the second floor.

An 18-wheeler carrying a load of pigs crashed during rush hour early Thursday morning on Interstate-45, closing the roadway in both directions.

A massive and dangerous storm is bearing down on the Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Cindy is the third named storm of the hurricane season and the first to hit the continental United States.

There is a 90 percent chance that a tropical storm will develop in the Gulf of Mexico in the next day or two, threatening oil and natural gas facilities and other energy infrastructure as it advances toward Texas and Louisiana.

Wind gusts of up to 72 miles per hour and hail as large as grapefruit struck the Midland/Odessa area on Wednesday. Thousands of West Texans were waking up to damaged roofs and automobiles with shattered windshields.

Two separate tropical storms are likely to form in Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic over the next couple of days, the National Hurricane Center said.

Hank Morgan was driving eastbound on Interstate 30 on Friday when an 18-wheeler, using the left shoulder as a passing lane, sped by him “with both front tires out and on fire, doing at least 80 miles per hour.”

Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation, according to CoreLogic’s 2017 Storm Surge Report.

Everything is big in Texas, including hailstorms. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) said today that insurance claims for hail damage in Texas last year exceeded the previous two years combined.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday tightened rules on where injury lawsuits may be filed, handing a victory to corporations by undercutting the ability of plaintiffs to bring claims in friendly courts in a case involving Texas-based BNSF Railway Co.

Ready-to-eat sausage from Armour Ekrich contains pork, turkey, beef, cheddar cheese… and maybe some metal pieces. Wait: One of those ingredients is definitely not part of a tasty breakfast. Over 90,000 pounds of the breakfast meat has been recalled for possibly containing some metal, though no injuries have been reported to date.

Residents in Austin County are still dealing with the aftermath of severe storms that caused major damage to homes and and businesses on Tuesday afternoon.

A firefighter died and two others were seriously injured battling a massive four-alarm shopping center fire in San Antonio, officials said Friday.

Motorcycle thefts are on the rise, and California, for the second year in a row, is the top state for stolen bikes. The annual theft report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows bike thefts rose 2% nationally in 2016.