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The history of Paris, Texas, includes architecture that is about much more than that eye-catching icon.

The iconic civil rights leader's 1976 death led to probes by the Texas attorney general, the FBI, and others. But all documents that might have proven he was murdered appeared to have vanished. In the Ghost of Frank J. Robinson podcast, reporter David Martin Davies investigates and finds new evidence about this mystery that haunts East Texas.

More than a half century after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, there remains little tradition of protest in East Texas, and scant experience with organizing.

From Texas Standard : Caddo Mounds State Historic Site sits in a small prairie, tucked just inside the pine curtain of East Texas. If you stand on the...

Christine Rollins, 59, was found dead Sunday morning in the front yard of a Chambers County home belonging to an elderly couple who she cared for. Rollins…

From Texas Standard: Anglers come from all over the world to fish Lake Fork, a 27,000-acre lake in east Texas with a reputation for producing monster...

From Texas Standard: Texas Standard has been traveling along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Harvey: first Corpus Christi , then Galveston , and...

NPR's Debbie Elliott has been tracking Harvey's destruction in rural East Texas, and joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson with the latest.

The city is without running water after service from the main pump station broke down due to rising waters from the Naches River.

DALLAS — It could take at least a year for the East Texas town of Van to rebuild from a tornado that cut a 10-mile-long path through the community,…