Former Dallas resident Nancy Rose McGowan, 26, was thrown in Travis County Jail yesterday after authorities discovered that she lacked a state board license and, more disconcertingly, any kind of formal education in pharmacy work whatsoever. McGowan had been working at the CVS Pharmacy at 4405 E. Riverside Drive for the past two months, and actively filled prescriptions using the names "Amber Mclendon" and "Amber Shcherbelis."...

Tomorrow night at 7pm, Austin firefighters will be training (and using theatrical smoke!) at 4th and Guadalupe. Gov. Perry trying to get disaster declaration for counties seriously affected by Humberto. Buffalo Bills player whose spine was seriously injured in a game earlier this month is now in Houston for rehab. LBJ football player hits off-duty cop after a game last month; is charged with assault on a public servant. Today the State Board of......

The Grand Old Party nearly swept the statewide race yesterday, led by Governor Rick Perry, who after beating Democratic nominee Chris Bell and independent candidates Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn may very well become the longest-serving Governor in Texas. In a press conference this morning, Perry was vague when addressing rumors of a possible vice presidential bid, merely saying it was "up to the good Lord." Bell, who posted yesterday in his blog......

-Police in the UK are trying to figure out the true identity of the fake Earl of Buckingham, who "married under the false name, passed it to his children, laid claim to the Buckingham crest and promised his teenage son that the peerage would one day be his." Sounds almost too awesome to be true. -The crazy woman in Houston who drowned her five children back in 2001 has had her murder convictions thrown......

Somewhere in Texas there's a $324 million goldmine hidden inside a nondescript warehouse. The less sensational bit is that this small fortune is actually in the form of educational textbooks - hundreds upon thousands of texts covering fine arts, foreign languages, music, and health. Way back in 2002, the State Board of Education requested and received authorization from the State House of Representatives and Senate to acquire desperately needed textbooks to replace the weathered,......