AUSTIN — Caitlin Baker was 3 when her mother, Debra, was beaten to death and left naked in bed in her Austin home. Although the pain of the loss has faded in the 23 years since, her anger that her...

A different type of athlete is occupying the halls of Gregory Gym this week. They do not move or speak, but they still have the ability to stop the occasional passerby in their tracks. These portraits...

Jennifer Egan said she never expected her novel, “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Egan thought it would remain a quick story she wrote as she progressed...

[Corrected Oct. 16: Added "generic" before silhouette in 8th graf] By November, the Transportation Security Agency is scheduled to install full-body scanning machines using the latest technology...

Over the course of a decade, changes in social opinion, contraception and the economy led to significant advances in women’s roles in society, said author and New York Times columnist Gail Collins. At...

The Texas Public Policy Foundation, an Austin-based conservative think tank, hired Tom Lindsay as director for their Center for Higher Education. The think tank has suggested that public universities...

Members of the Texas State Employees Union rallied for full public funding of higher education at West Mall. By holding the rally, members of the union hoped to gain members and add signatures to their...

The answer for achieving a cleaner environment may not be blowing in the wind, according to an energy consultant who spoke on campus Thursday. Negative economic effects and problems associated with wind...

NEW YORK — Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of the biggest insider-trading case in U.S. history, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years behind bars — the stiffest punishment...

TAURANGA, New Zealand — The calmest weather in days has given salvage crews hope they will be able on Friday to resume pumping the remaining fuel from a cargo ship stuck on a New Zealand reef. The...

WASHINGTON — Congress approved free trade agreements Wednesday with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a four-year drought in the forming of new trade partnerships and giving the White House...

The University Democrats welcomed a Texas politician who overcame public misconceptions surrounding the gay community to campus Wednesday night. Former state representative Glen Maxey spoke about his...