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Positive signs that a beefed-up Texas film incentives program is working: two network television shows shooting in Dallas and the filmmaking Coen brothers scouting Central Texas as a location for their version of True Grit .

From left, Elijah Ford, Matt Smith, Ryan Bingham and Corby Schaub released 'Roadhouse Sun,' more of a rocker than the band's first release, in June.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News November 20, 2009 Midland, TX - Ector and Midland County are training to honor America's bravest with a mock funeral.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News November 18, 2009 Marfa, TX - "We're not talking about an actual cartel member walking into the school; they're recruiting students that go into the school and now that school student is now in the cartel." US border patrol says dangerous Mexican cartels are reaching into West Texas schools trying gather a workforce.

Allison is one great photographer. Lovely color every time. I remember heading through Marfa on the way to Big Bend, pre-Judd. It was a sleepy little town, no latte's back then.

"The big empty" is how my seatmate describes the landscape as our plane makes its descent to El Paso .

It's a large building with sheet-metal siding, a beat-up but gracious wooden stage, dramatic wooden rafters, and an Iwo Jima mural between the doors to the lobby.

Now we live in Marfa, Texas where we'll be taking in the Leonid meteor shower - at its peak tomorrow night - as it rains across the dark skies of the Trans Pecos from the comfort of our back yard, frosty session brew in hand.

Texas Monthly Editor Jake Silverstein can pinpoint the moment his life changed. On a drive home to California, he made a stop in the West Texas town of Marfa.

In part one we presented the national study that found nearly ten percent of gamers as pathological.

According to the Yacht Manifesto #1 : "Yacht is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA." Also, Yacht "seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence" and "believes in an Afterlife," but "does not believe in 'Heaven' or 'Hell.'" ...

Alan Waltrip CBS 7 News November 2, 2009 Marfa -Randy and Evi Quaid continue to cause problems for Marfa law enforcement.

Newspapers 2 Below are some of the top stories that made headline news today. Just click on the links below to get the scoop: Monday, November 2nd, 2009 On Monday, officials announced that former Assemblyman Mike Duvall will not face federal charges after he made lewd comments about having an alleged... Keep Reading>> Monday, November 2nd, 2009 ...

OK, now the Quaid s are really in trouble. The inimitable Randy and Evi Quaid again opted to not appear before a Santa Barbara judge today to face charges stemming from their resort-and-dash case .

Fueled by adrenaline, coffee and a full breakfast, we quickly fell into pace on the smooth trail leading into Big Bend Ranch State Park from the East Contrabando trailhead at the southeastern corner of the park, near the Barton Warnock Visitor's Center and the town of Lajitas.

The case of two Winkler County nurses is being moved to some-where outside Winkler County and an indictment has been quashed.

A cold snap was in the forecast for parts of Texas on Tuesday. In the Panhandle, wind chill values could make temperatures feel around 30 and 40 degrees before warming up to a high near 70,according to the National Weather Service.

Texas Monthly Editor Jake Silverstein works with Senior Editor Pamela Colloff on the magazine's November issue.

When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare bones and saw beauty in the blemishes.

Gary Novinskie, President of Daleco Resources Corporation announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Clean Age Minerals, Inc.