And Spelce, 48, is the son of Neal Splece, reporter and TV anchor who filed from the scene of the Charles Whitman shootings at the University of Texas Tower, and Sheila Spelce, a prominent arts backer, now deceased. “Look at what families we grew up...

I say “patiently,” though I should also add that, when it comes to discussing IQ and sexual differentiation, Prinz intemperately dismisses those like Charles Murray, Richard Herrnstein and Larry Summers who have not been persuaded by the liberal...

Society, and personality changes can accompany a glioma, depending on its location and size in the brain. "It's not typical, but it can happen," said Dr. Dan Barrow, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine in...

On the way up he killed a receptionist with the butt of his rifle. He killed a further 12 people and wounded 32 before he was shot dead by police. Earlier that day he had murdered his mother and stabbed his wife to death as she slept. Whitman was 25...

Camp rangers are VIPs at Sol Mayer, charged with taking care of the 300-acre camp in every detail, and friend to all who go there. In 2007, the city of Austin presented the “Distinguished Service Award” to 14 people who were key players in bringing...

Hamilton, who forty years after the University of Texas Tower shootings, wrote about his boyhood connection to Charles Whitman, died Sunday while driving to visit former Austin police officer Houston McCoy, whose shotgun blast had felled Whitman. Share...