Spindletop News

A few years ago, Byron Hughes was homeless and not getting treatment or medication for his schizophrenia disorder.

That's because if oil prices fall too low, the expensive fracking and horizontal drilling used to exploit the estimated billion barrels of oil buried in shale formations 11,000 feet beneath south and southeast Texas will no longer be cost effective, and oil industry experts warn that when rigs are removed from an area, it is a lengthy and very ... (more)

After months of delays due to a court battle over redistricting early voting in the Texas Primary begins on Monday.

A Katy couple are suing the Hyatt Regency Houston over an incident at the hotel's revolving Spindletop restaurant,A in which they say their 4-year-old daughter's foot was cut when it got trapped by the moving floor.