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O’Rourke, Klobuchar & Buttigieg endorse Biden at Texas campaign rally

March 2, 2020 6:28 PM KVIA ABC-7, ABC News, Texas Tribune

DALLAS, Texas — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden came to Texas on Monday looking to capitalize on his big win in South Carolina — and…

Klobuchar ends 2020 presidential campaign, will endorse Joe Biden at Texas rally

March 2, 2020 11:33 AM CNN, ABC News

DALLAS, Texas — Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced an end to her presidential bid on Monday and will endorse Joe Biden, campaign aides…

A Wuhan evacuee was released from quarantine in Texas and later tested positive for the coronavirus

March 2, 2020 10:13 AM CNN

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A woman in San Antonio who had previously tested negative twice for the coronavirus, and was released by the Centers for…

Police K-9 sniffs out $1.2 million worth of meth

March 1, 2020 12:01 PM CNN

LEWISVILLE, Texas — Police dog Stryker proved himself to be the ultimate good boy when he sniffed out approximately 595 pounds of…

Houston paralyzed after water main break floods freeway

February 27, 2020 12:31 PM Associated Press

HOUSTON, Texas — Businesses and schools shut down Thursday after a main line from a plant that supplies water to about half of Houston burst open,…

Far-right extremists killed 42 people in 2019 — more than half those deaths came in El Paso’s Walmart shooting

February 26, 2020 3:26 PM Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas — White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 42 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth-deadliest year for…

Texas demolition company accidentally tears down the wrong house

February 26, 2020 1:39 PM CNN

DALLAS, Texas — A demolition company was hired to tear down a house last week in Dallas, but it mistakenly tore down a different home on the same…

Watch LIVE: How long will take to bring down the ‘Leaning Tower of Dallas?’

February 26, 2020 12:58 PM ABC News

DALLAS, Texas (WFAA) — Another day, another bit of progress made on taking down the ‘Leaning Tower of Dallas.’ But as day three of the demolition…

New migrant detention center opening in northeast El Paso after last year’s overcrowding complaints

February 25, 2020 2:48 PM Associated Press, KVIA ABC-7

EL PASO, Texas — A year after asylum-seekers and other migrants overwhelmed U.S. immigration authorities at the southern border, the Border Patrol…

Statewide Amber Alert issued for abducted 8-month-old Texas girl

February 24, 2020 6:54 PM Jim Parker

MESQUITE, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Monday evening for an 8-month-old Texas girl whom police said was abducted. The girl, Nyla…

Watch LIVE: ‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ endures blows from wrecking ball

February 24, 2020 11:15 AM ABC News, Associated Press

DALLAS, Texas — The “Leaning Tower of Dallas,” a social media sensation born when a part of a building survived implosion, endured hundreds of…

Texas farmers look to learn how to grow hemp

February 23, 2020 3:25 PM JC Navarrete

EL PASO, Texas — Texas Hemp Growers put together a class for farmers to learn how to grow and use hemp. The association is made up of farmers,…

Ex-NFL players Robinson, Bray granted bond by El Paso federal judge on pot charges

February 21, 2020 2:57 PM Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas — Two former NFL players were walking free on bond Friday after federal agents said they caught them with over 150 pounds of…

Updated image released of unidentified girl found in barrel — she may be from Texas

February 20, 2020 2:09 PM Associated Press

CONCORD, New Hampshire — Officials have released an updated digital facial reconstruction for an unidentified girl whose decomposed body was found…

Feds plan major crackdown on meth trafficking hubs — El Paso is one of those cities

February 20, 2020 2:45 PM Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas — Federal authorities are targeting methamphetamine “transportation hubs” around the country in an effort to block the…

New details emerge about Cleveland Browns player’s arrest with 157 pounds of pot in rental car at Sierra Blanca

February 20, 2020 2:08 PM CNN

SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Cleveland Browns player Gregory Robinson was arrested and jailed in El Paso after U.S. Border Patrol agents found 157…

Most Texas voters would admit refugees from other countries, new poll shows

February 20, 2020 12:44 PM Texas Tribune

AUSTIN, Texas — A narrow majority of Texas voters said the state should accept refugees from other countries who have gone through a security…

He’s a seasoned lawyer on Trump’s impeachment defense team. But Ken Starr had a troubled tenure as president of Baylor University

February 20, 2020 8:59 AM CNN

Ten years before Ken Starr joined President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, he was named president of Baylor University in Waco,…

Gun control group Everytown to spend $8 million on Texas races

February 19, 2020 1:55 PM CNN

DALLAS< Texas — Everytown for Gun Safety announced Wednesday that it is pouring $8 million into Texas to elect “gun sense”…

Man convicted, paroled in officer’s 1997 death found

February 19, 2020 2:16 PM Associated Press

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who served time for his involvement in the 1997 killing of a New Hampshire police officer and disappeared after being…

Selena tribute concert set to honor the Queen of Tejano in anniversary celebration

February 19, 2020 1:15 PM ABC News

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KOAT) — Attention Selena fans, a tribute concert is officially in the works celebrating the late Tejano icon. Selena…

Texas man accused of drunkenly hitting pedestrian, driving with ‘mangled corpse’ in car to beer garden

February 18, 2020 6:23 PM Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — A driver has been arrested after police said he fatally struck a pedestrian in Austin, kept driving for about half a mile with the…

Rare pink grasshopper spotted in Texas

February 17, 2020 5:52 PM ABC News

AUSTIN, Texas — Grasshoppers of the green and brown varieties are extremely common in Texas. But did you know grasshoppers can also be pink? On…

150-foot flames shoot from ruptured gas line in Texas

February 17, 2020 10:56 AM CNN

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Fire and rescue officials converged on the scene of a ruptured gas line in Texas that shot 150-foot flames into the air…

Dallas building still standing after attempt to implode it to make way for new development failed

February 17, 2020 9:44 AM CNN

DALLAS, Texas — Texans have dubbed a high-rise office building the “Leaning Tower of Dallas” after it failed to come down during an…

‘We don’t know if we’re going to make it home’: Texas 1st responders honor fallen Fort Hancock fire chief

February 15, 2020 9:05 PM Kate Bieri

FORT HANCOCK, Texas — Dozens of west Texas first responders honored a fallen brother Saturday – the chief of the Fort Hancock Fire Department in…

Your Voice, Your Vote: Texas House District 76 candidates debate

February 15, 2020 11:12 PM Brianna Chavez

EL PASO, Texas — Two candidates are vying for the Texas House District 76 seat: Former city representative Claudia Ordaz-Perez and Elisa Tamayo.…

Bernie Sanders surges in Texas, while Trump is ‘under-performing’ in new poll

February 14, 2020 6:47 PM Texas Tribune

AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has doubled his support among Democratic voters in Texas and now leads the race for that party’s…

A dozen students injured in cell phone battery explosion at a Texas junior high school

February 14, 2020 12:31 PM CNN

KATY, Texas — Some junior high students in Texas were hurt after a cell phone battery exploded on Friday. A Katy Independent School District…

Sheriff says Texas man admitted hanging puppy ‘out of boredom’

February 14, 2020 4:41 PM Associated Press

MONTE ALTO, Texas — A Texas man accused of hanging a small puppy by the neck from a tree and posting a video on Facebook told deputies that he…