By Madeline Holcombe and Raja Razek, CNN A Texas school district board voted unanimously to give notice of a proposed non-renewal of the contract of a principal at the center of controversy over critical race theory. James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville Heritage High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was placed on paid administrative leave
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Stacker compiled the most popular baby names for girls of the 1960s in Texas using data from the Social Security Administration.
Continue Reading DEL RIO, Texas — More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment at the Texas border town of Del Rio, U.S. officials said Monday as they defended a strong response that included immediately expelling migrants to their impoverished Caribbean country and using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town.
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — Lauren Lewis originally mistook the dry cough for allergies. In early November 2020, she attended an outdoor concert with her mother and younger daughter in Dallas, a couple of days after begrudgingly attending a mandatory in-person meeting at work. “When I got home I was like, ‘[The cough] is probably because I
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a Houston police officer was killed and another was wounded during a shooting that also killed a 31-year-old man who the officers were attempting to arrest. Mayor Sylvester Turner says both officers were shot multiple times while attempting to serve an arrest warrant at a home in an apartment complex
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A San Antonio doctor who wrote a Washington Post op-ed claiming that he had violated Texas’ six-week abortion ban now faces a lawsuit brought against him under the ban. Dr. Alan Braid had all but dared supporters of the near-total ban on abortion to try making an early example of him and file
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A date has been set for the trial of a former Fort Worth police officer who was charged with murder after shooting a Black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door in 2019. Aaron Dean’s trial is scheduled to
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Stacker compiled a list of the counties with highest rate of food insecure children in Texas using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Greg Zuerlein connected on a 56-yard field goal as time expired to give the Dallas Cowboys a 20-17 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers. After Tristan Vizcaino tied the game with a 29-yard field goal, Dallas went 49 yards in 11 plays to get just
Continue Reading DEL RIO, Texas — The United States acted Sunday to stem the flow of migrants into Texas by blocking the Mexican border at the isolated town of Del Rio where thousands of Haitian refugees set up a camp, and American officials began flying some of the migrants back to their homeland – with some coming
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By Deanna Hackney and Amir Vera, CNN A pilot instructor and a student were hospitalized Sunday after each ejected from a military training jet that crashed in a residential neighborhood in Lake Worth, Texas, on Sunday, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department. Police were notified of the crash in the 4000 blocks of Tejas
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EL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke plans to soon announce that he will challenge Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection bid in next year’s election, Texas political operatives told Axios on Sunday. The 48-year-old O’Rourke is one the highest profile Democrats in Texas. He was speculated to have been considering
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By JUAN A. LOZANO, ERIC GAY, ELLIOT SPAGAT and EVENS SANON Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and trying to block others from crossing the border from Mexico. It’s a massive show of force that signals the beginning of
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN A Texas doctor is publicly revealing that he violated a state law that bans abortions after six weeks and says he is inviting legal challenges under the controversial law, which has so far withstood efforts by pro-abortion rights supporters to block it. “On the morning of Sept.
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Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the most college graduates in Texas using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Continue Reading By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bijan Robinson ran for three touchdowns in the first half and Texas rebounded from a humiliating loss a week earlier by pounding Rice 58-0. The Longhorns rushed for 427 yards after managing just 256 total yards in a loss at Arkansas that knocked Texas out
Continue Reading By RANDY ROSETTA Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech quarterback Tyler Shough threw for 399 yards and four touchdown passes to spark a 54-21 victory against Florida International at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders shook loose from a tight game after the first quarter with four touchdowns in the second period and
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Zach Calzada threw for 275 yards and three touchdowns in his first career start to power No. 7 Texas A&M in a 34-0 rout of New Mexico. The victory extends A&M’s winning streak to 11 games and gives the Aggies a 3-0 start for
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CONVERSE, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Friday night for a 12-year-old child out of Converse, which is in Bexar County about 15 miles northeast of San Antonio. ABC affiliate KXXV identified the suspect in the child abduction as 28-year-old Marie Rodriguez Pomales. The missing child, Alheirie Rodriguez Pomales, was last seen at her
Continue Reading DEL RIO, Texas — The Biden administration plans on “massive movements” of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border city on flights to Haiti starting Sunday, an official said Friday, representing a swift and dramatic response to thousands who suddenly assembled under and around a bridge. Details are yet to be finalized but will likely
Continue Reading DEL RIO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday evening that it was temporarily closing the Del Rio Port of Entry to vehicles and pedestrians in both directions and re-routing traffic to Eagle Pass, which is 57 miles away. CBP said it closed the only Del Rio border crossing with Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, “to
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Almost 50 people who had entered the U.S. illegally were found inside the trailer of a truck stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, officials said Friday. Border Patrol agents found the undocumented migrants Thursday at its immigration checkpoint along Interstate 10, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Ray Sanchez, CNN Roselini Villasmil broke down Friday as she recalled the squalid conditions under a bridge in the Texas border town of Del Rio, where nearly 14,000 unauthorized migrants are being held for processing by US immigration agents. “We told our son we were camping so he wouldn’t worry,” said
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 53-year-old man jailed in Las Cruces for the sexual assault of a teenager is believed to be a serial attacker and likely has more rape victims across southern New Mexico and west Texas, police said Friday. Carlos Ovalle of Las Cruces was being held in the Dona Ana County
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a host at a popular New York City restaurant was assaulted by three women from Texas after she asked for proof they had been vaccinated against COVID-19. Police say the women repeatedly punched the host and broke her necklace Thursday. Proof of vaccination is
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PEARLAND, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued early Friday for a 6-year-old boy who police say was kidnapped from his mother’s vehicle in Pearland, which is located in the Houston metro area. Authorities are looking for Amari Daniel Baylor. ABC affiliate KTRK reports that Amari’s mother told police that she and her three
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NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas man linked to the “boogaloo” movement who livestreamed threats to kill police was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder of a peace officer. The Texarkana Gazette reports that on Thursday, a jury in Bowie County found 38-year-old Aaron Caleb Swenson guilty
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and police have killed 9 suspected gunmen near the U.S. border. The government of the northern border state of Coahuila said Thursday that state police officers came under fire while patrolling a dirt road near the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The state said that soldiers were called in
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UPDATE: AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott said on Thursday that he directed state troopers and the Texas National Guard “to shut down six points of entry along the southern border” at the request of U.S. Customs and Border Protection — then reversed himself shortly after, blaming the Biden administration for flip-flopping in its request for state
Continue Reading DEL RIO, Texas — Thousands of asylum-seeking migrants — most of them from Haiti — are waiting under an international bridge in Del Rio to be processed to enter the country, according to Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez. Though Del Rio has seen a sharp rise in migrant apprehensions this year, the sheriff
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