NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally ...

Everyone deserves a second chance, and one San Antonio native recently dubbed "the most hated man in Texas BBQ" has just got one. Former Valentina's Tex-Mex owner Miguel Vidal is now the pitmaster of ...

A familiar but controversial name in the barbecue world is attempting a comeback in the Texas capital. One year after Valentina's Tex-Mex BBQ filed for bankruptcy and closed its Buda outpost amid a ...

Miguel Vidal had just finished working on an HVAC installation at the renovated Driskill Hotel this summer when his phone mercifully rang. It was an old friend offering the pitmaster a new lease on a ...

In March, Houston resident Lydia Harris filed a $100 million lawsuit in the Houston courts against West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg and the iconic record label Death Row Records, alleging that they ...

If you’ve been mulling over an electric car purchase, you have just under three months to get a big, fat, federally funded discount on the hood. Now that the Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” has ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for ...

Another Texas death row case from the late 1990s is facing scrutiny as laws and science evolve, questioning if the state got it right in the capital murder case of Charles Flores. Flores, who ...