Couple opens café to subsidize tiny Texas town's local newspaper

The Big Bend Sentinel is the area's weekly newspaper that has kept watch over this part of West Texas for 99 years.

• Jun 5, 2025

Heat wave grips much of the U.S.

From Texas to the Great Lakes, and east to New England, a heat wave – in some areas in triple digits – is broiling the nation. So far, it's blamed for at least six deaths. Meg Oliver reports.

• Jul 21, 2019
• 01:39

Tiny town's newspaper kept afloat through café

The Big Bend Sentinel is a weekly newspaper that has kept watch over a part of West Texas for 99 years. When approached to buy it, one couple knew they had to get creative. Janet Shamlian reports.

• Jun 5, 2025
• 02:52

Deadly mass shooting in Texas

A terrifying chain of events was triggered by a traffic stop Saturday in the heart of Texas' oil country. A man pulled over by state troopers opened fire and fled, and later hijacked a U.S. Postal Service truck, embarking on a shooting spree. At least six fatalities were among the 24 people shot. David Begnaud reports.

• Sep 1, 2019
• 01:45

On her toes

Young children's passion for ballet often burns out, and even professional ballerinas are often done by 30. But Steve Hartman found a remarkable exception, in Dallas, Texas, where 79-year-old Suzelle Poole is still at the barre, teaching at the Royale Ballet Dance Academy.

• Sep 29, 2019
• 02:30

A friend in need

Life has its ups and downs, but rarely do you see a swing as dramatically as what 66-year-old Coy Fetherson just went through. Recently homeless in Austin Texas, a photo in a local newspaper alerted old friends he hadn’t seen in years. Steve Hartman reports.

• Oct 27, 2019
• 02:32

Hustler

Meet Utley Puckett, legendary pool hustler of Fort Worth, Texas. What a card shark does with a deck of cards, Puckett does with a pool cue. Correspondent Harry Reasoner goes to Texas, gets hustled, and doesn't mind one bit.

• Mar 4, 1979
• 14:20

Lenell Geter's in Jail

Lenell Geter was a young, successful engineer in Greenville, Texas, when he was sentenced to life in prison for the armed robbery of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. But did the police get the right man? Morley Safer and his team take a closer look

• Dec 4, 1983
• 24:40

Friday Night Lights

Friday night lights blaze each fall in high school football stadiums all across America. But "Friday Night Lights" is also the title of a best-selling book that looks at the dark side of high school football, claiming that in many towns, more emphasis is put on football than on education.

• Nov 25, 1990
• 14:22

Pianists from across the world go for glory at international competition

Held every four years, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is considered by some to be the Olympics of the piano world.

• Jun 5, 2025

Attack in Garland

A terrorist attack in Texas by two U.S. citizens shows how hard it is to prevent such an attack -- even when one of the terrorists is well-known to the FBI.

• Aug 20, 2017
• 14:01

Preview: Attack in Garland

A terrorist attack in Texas by two U.S. citizens shows how hard it is to prevent such an attack -- even when one of the terrorists is well-known to the FBI. Anderson Cooper reports on Sunday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

• Aug 17, 2017
• 00:39

Human smuggling across the southern border

Desperation and fear are driving a dangerous industry that's virtually impossible to completely stop. Scott Pelley reports.

• Mar 11, 2018
• 13:27

Human smuggling across the southern border

Desperation and fear are driving a dangerous industry that's virtually impossible to completely stop. Scott Pelley reports.

• Jun 24, 2018
• 13:30

Remembering President George H.W. Bush

Former presidents and others look back on the life of President George H.W. Bush, who passed away Friday. Norah O'Donnell reports.

• Dec 2, 2018
• 25:37

George H.W. Bush in 1980

"60 Minutes" interviewed Bush as he campaigned in the Republican presidential primary.

• Dec 1, 2018
• 11:18

George H.W. Bush in 1976

"60 Minutes" interviewed Bush as when he was head of the CIA.

• Dec 1, 2018
• 01:20

George H.W. Bush in 1987

"60 Minutes" spoke with Bush as he campaigned for president in the days after the Iran-Contra affair.

• Dec 1, 2018
• 01:49

From Honduras to the border — in a wheelchair

It took a month for a migrant in a wheelchair and his family to travel to McAllen, Texas. Why did they make the trip?

• Apr 28, 2019
• 03:21

Did thermal imaging video help catch a killer?

Rob Leef was testing a thermal scope late at night on Dec. 6, 2014 – the night that Kathy Blair, an innocent Austin choir teacher, was murdered. What he recorded in her quiet neighborhood that night would give detectives their first major break in the case.

• Dec 21, 2019
• 01:00

Murder-for-hire target takes evidence to police

After overhearing a conversation about a plot to kill his friend, Mundo and the target, former pro boxer Ramon Sosa, bring their evidence to investigators.

• Sep 5, 2020
• 02:58

Body cam video captures murder-for-hire suspect's arrest

On July 23, 2015, detectives with the Montgomery County Texas Constable's Office arrive at the Houston gym owned by Ramon Sosa and his wife, Lulu, to arrest Lulu on suspicion of plotting her husband's death.

• Sep 5, 2020
• 03:29

Sneak peek: The Vendetta

A judge and her son are ambushed in front of their home. Shot multiple times, the judge refuses to be intimidated and works to stop other attacks. CBS News' Jim Axelrod reports Saturday, August 31 at 10/9c on CBS.

• Aug 28, 2019
• 03:44

Sahara dust cloud heads to U.S.

A massive plume of Saharan dust is covering the Caribbean and is making its way toward the southern U.S. While it is bad for air quality, it prevents major storms and hurricanes from developing. CBS News' Karen Hua has more details.

• Jun 3, 2025
• 02:19

Jonathan Joss, "King of the Hill" voice actor, killed in San Antonio, police say

Jonathan Joss was known for lending his voice to the role of John Redcorn in the animated sitcom "King of the Hill."

• Jun 2, 2025

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