Bastrop mom Janet Pollok will be one of 46 women, known as "the 46 Mommas", who will have their heads shaved on September 21. Pollok and the other women are all having their heads shaved to raise money for research on childhood cancers through the St. Baldrick's Foundation. more ›

• Is this a workers’ comp injury? Dude badly cut himself while allegedly breaking into “Big Bang Custom Paint and Body” in Killeen. He was arrested after he got out of the hospital!
• This reads more like an action-movie plot than a headline: “Vehicle crashes into home, hits baby. Baby expected to be OK.”
• Dallas-area church really wanted 18 cohabiting couples to get hitched…so they footed the bill for a big wedding! The wedding was part of a lecture series called, "The Real Flava of Love."

• A shocking error in cancer care.
• After seven months, reporter kidnapped by the Taliban manages to escape.
• Supreme Court sides with Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 (sort of) in their voting rights case.

Christie Constante was diagnosed with cervical cancer stage IIB in January of 2008. After going through the rigors of chemotherapy, radiation, and internal radiation therapy, the cancer has not subsided, and now her diagnosis is seen as terminal. As if insult needed to be applied to injury, Christie is struggling with Medicaid to cover all bills, So her friends with Latinas Unidas Por El Arte (LUPE Arte), and Klown Dog Bikes are throwing a benefit featuring Kitty Kitty Bang Bang, Brownout, Ruby Rico, Woodgrain, DJ Chorizo Funk, and RAD, in Christie’s name to help ease the financial burden. more ›

Another day, another long list of long list of web-darling music acts and their attendant corporate sponsors. more ›