Sources: BBC
In golf, Nelly Korda wins the Chevron Championship at Memorial Park in Houston, Texas, United States, by five strokes to secure her third major title and regain the world number one ranking. 2026-04-26
Four people are killed, including the perpetrator, in a shooting spree at three locations across southwest Houston and Sugar Land, Texas, United States. 2025-10-8
Four people are killed and several others are injured, including two critically, in a seven-vehicle pileup on the Interstate 20 near Kaufman County, Texas, United States. 2025-06-28
Three people are killed and more than 50 others are injured by a tornado in Perryton, Texas, United States. 2023-06-15
Military medics are deployed to hospitals in Texas and California as cases surge. 2020-07-17
At least eight people have died in the American state of Texas with 30,000 residents in the city of Houston expected to seek temporary shelter. 2017-08-28
Bryce Dejean-Jones, a National Basketball Association player with the New Orleans Pelicans, is shot dead in Dallas, Texas, after breaking down an apartment bedroom door. 2016-05-28
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announces his intention to run for president. 2015-03-23
Voters in the US state of Texas go to the polls for a runoff election in the Republican Senate primary with Ted Cruz defeating David Dewhurst. 2012-07-31
Mike Rawlings is elected as the Mayor of the US city of Dallas, Texas, with Betsy Price elected as the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas and Beth van Duyne elected as the mayor of Irving Texas. 2011-06-18