Two hikers who climbed a tree to escape what they thought was a wild pig were embarrassed to be told by police the growling noises that had frightened them were in fact passing cars.
Federal officials investigating the crash of a small plane that killed 10 at a suburban Dallas airport say they have recovered the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder.
A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas have been laid to rest, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the Rio Grande circled the globe.
The mother of a man who drowned alongside his young daughter while trying to reach the US has said she is comforted by how they clung to each other in their final moments.
The acting head of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has resigned amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in pitiful conditions at one of the agency’s stations in Texas.
Video from Texas in the US shows a vast lightning storm breaking over the city of Austin.
Police who surrounded a house in eastern Texas because they thought they had a burglary in progress found a deer instead.
A Texas man used a hacksaw to cut off his mother’s head before fleeing and leading police on a chase into Oklahoma before they arrested him, authorities have said.
Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has been celebrated for portraying Chewbacca underneath “a half ton of yak hair” as tributes were paid following his death.
Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has been remembered as a “big man with an even bigger heart” following his death at the age of 74.
US Border Patrol agents have found a three-year-old boy alone in a field in Texas at the Mexico border.
Student nurses who have taken part in a healthcare exchange programme are being urged to help mark its 25th anniversary.
Aberdeen's Lord Provost has met industry leaders and experts at an international energy conference.
Huge hailstones have been falling overnight in Texas amid severe storms across the US state.
President Donald Trump started a trip to Texas by privately meeting families of some of the 10 people killed in a school shooting this month.
Celebrities have called for tighter gun controls in the United States following the deaths of 10 people at a high school in Texas.
This is the moment an adorable puppy caused “quite a stir” after getting her head stuck in a car wheel.
This is the moment an adorable puppy caused “quite a stir” after getting her head stuck in a car wheel.
This is the moment an adorable puppy caused “quite a stir” after getting her head stuck in a car wheel.
A border wall between the US and Mexico will harm endangered plants and animals and cause trouble for the growing ecotourism industry in Texas, scientists say.
An oil worker based in Houston has gone on trial in Aberdeen accused of stalking his former boss.
A North-east couple today told how they had been attempting to sell their Houston home before it was engulfed by the devastating floodwaters.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation has donated one million dollars (£775,000) to relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, adding to growing pledges from Hollywood stars.
A Texas rancher lassoed a 10-foot alligator and wranglers crawled atop the thrashing reptile’s back after it got a little too close to the landowner Hal Conover’s cattle.
Mile-long stretches of shore are being covered in dead or dying fish in Texas.
An Aberdeen university programme is hosting nursing students from abroad to compare healthcare systems and training.
An American man is suing a woman after she texted her way through a cinema date.
On Saturday 15-year-old Jordan Edwards died after being shot by a police officer in Texas. Here’s everything you need to know about the incident and the subsequent fallout.
Thieves have been caught on CCTV stealing puppies worth more than $20,000.
AFTER a quarter of a century together, the bond that holds Scottish chart stars Texas together remains strong.