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Fans of the late author and Texas legend Larry McMurtry will have more than one opportunity in the next month to celebrate his legacy.

HOUSTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Larry McMurty, age 84, died of heart failure the night of March 25, 2021, in his North Texas hometown of Archer City, 25 miles south of Wichita Falls. In the fall of 1954, then-18-year-old McMurtry, right off the family ranch, arrived in Houston to begin his first semester at Rice Institute (later to be renamed Rice University). As an undergraduate, McMurtry shared a garage apartment on North Boulevard near Rice Village with roommates Douglas Milburn, who would become a German language professor at Rice, and fut...

Straight ahead. and a spectacular bare-handed play from jose iglesias. look at him, the tigers' shortstop and the sixth-inning stunner. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning, thanks so much for being with me, i'm carol costello. checking our top stories at 31 minutes past, a 29-year-old georgia man was killed after falling from a platform at turner field. it happened during the braves/phillies game. ronald homer fell 65 feet from an upper level on to a parking lot below. police believe the fall was an accident and say it's too soon to tell whether alcohol may have been a factor. ...