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Police ID Driver of Truck That Plowed Into Texas Mall

5 injured in Killeen, and the driver was fatally shot by officers

(Newser) - Authorities have identified a pickup truck driver who, while fleeing police, careened through the doors of a JCPenney store at a busy Texas mall, injuring five people before he was fatally shot by officers, the AP reports. John Darrel Schultz, 53, of Kempner drove a truck and crashed into the...

Freight Train Wreck Kills 2 Rail Employees

Union president calls crash a wake-up call after safety measures have stalled

(Newser) - Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday. The train derailed around 5pm Wednesday in Pecos after the collision at a railway crossing, authorities said. The hazardous materials...

Musk's SpaceX Makes Official Push for a New Texas City

Company asks local officials to make its Starbase launch site an incorporated city

(Newser) - SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city. Billionaire Elon Musk's company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase—the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets—into...

Texas Sues New York Doctor on Telemedicine Abortion Pills

Paxton says woman went to hospital with complications after receiving prescription

(Newser) - Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. The lawsuit was filed in Collin County, Texas, by state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday and announced Friday. It appears to be the first challenge anywhere in the US to a shield...

Small Plane Crashes Onto Texas Highway

Pilot survives crash that split plane in two

(Newser) - A twin-engine propeller plane crashed onto a Texas highway and split in two Wednesday afternoon, scattering debris across the road and sending four people to hospitals, authorities said. The Piper PA-31, with just the pilot aboard, crashed about 3pm near a highway overpass in Victoria, some 150 miles southwest of...

Suit: Chatbot Subjected Girl to 2 Years of Sexual Content

A Character.AI bot also hinted to a Texas teen that he should kill his parents, per a new complaint

(Newser) - Two families are suing the Google-backed Character.AI, claiming the latter company's chatbots abused their kids and knowingly exposed the minors to "a technology they knew to be dangerous and unsafe." Per the Washington Post , the suit filed Tuesday in Texas involves a 17-year-old boy identified simply...

Attorney Says He Killed Son by Mistake, Burned Body

Texas man waited 17 hours to call police

(Newser) - A Texas attorney has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence after telling police that he killed his son in a "horrible accident" and cremated his body. Investigators say Houston attorney Michael Howard, 68, told police on Monday that he shot his 20-year-old son Mark at the family'...

Vatican Deems Texas Nuns 'Extinct' After Alleged Scandal

Sisters believe Fort Worth bishop is simply attempting a land grab of Arlington monastery

(Newser) - A group of nuns in Arlington, Texas, have been declared "extinct" by the Vatican, following a monthslong battle with the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth over a rumored affair between the head nun and a priest. Per Chron.com , Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson on Monday published a statement...

Court Hands Texas 'Huge Win' on Border Wire

5th circuit says federal agents can't destroy razor wire state has placed along border

(Newser) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says a court ruling on razor wire along the border with Mexico is a "huge win" for the state. A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the federal government can't destroy wire Texas authorities installed to deter migrants near Eagle Pass, the Texas ...

Texas Board Votes to Approve Controversial Curriculum
Texas Board Approves
Controversial Curriculum
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Nov 22, 2024 12:44 PM CST

Texas Board Approves Controversial Curriculum

Critics say Bible-heavy public school curriculum is akin to 'religious indoctrination'

(Newser) - The state board of education in Texas on Friday approved an elementary school curriculum that includes Bible-based lessons, reports the Washington Post . Critics say the curriculum, which is optional, improperly pushes Christian beliefs in public schools. Gov. Greg Abbott and other supporters disagree, saying the Bible is a part of...

Texas: Trump Can Have Ranch for 'Deportation Facilities'

Land commissioner says 1.4K-acre property was bought from a farmer last month

(Newser) - Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has offered President-elect Trump a 1,402-acre ranch that she believes would be ideal for his mass deportation plan. In a Tuesday letter to Trump , Buckingham said she was formally offering the Starr County tract of land "to be used to construct deportation facilities....

'Instead of Curing Pain,' This Doctor 'Inflicted It'
Doctor Who Tampered
With IV Bags Gets 190 Years
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Nov 20, 2024 6:10 PM CST

Doctor Who Tampered With IV Bags Gets 190 Years

Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. was found guilty of causing cardiac emergencies through drugged IV bags

(Newser) - A doctor found guilty of injecting dangerous drugs into IV bags at a facility in North Dallas has been sentenced to 190 years in federal prison. Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz was found guilty earlier this year of crimes including tampering with consumer products resulting in serious bodily injury. Prosecutors said...

Looks Like Someone Shot at a Southwest Plane

No one was hurt Friday after bullet struck jet preparing for departure at Dallas Love Field Airport

(Newser) - A bullet struck the body of a Southwest Airlines airplane preparing for departure from a Dallas airport, forcing the cancellation of the Friday evening flight, the airline said. No injuries were reported, and law enforcement was contacted after the bullet struck the right side of the aircraft just under the...

Tonight in Boxing, a 'Generational Showdown'
Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul:
Fight or 'Circus' Stunt?
THE RUNDOWN
Nov 15, 2024 10:14 AM CST

Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul: Fight or 'Circus' Stunt?

Ex-heavyweight champion takes on YouTuber in the boxing ring for Netflix

(Newser) - Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will feature what the New York Times calls a "bizarre" boxing match: a famous 58-year-old veteran boxer versus a famous jacked-up 27-year-old YouTuber. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson faces off in a professional match against social media influencer Jake Paul,...

'Heroic and Loyal' Dog Helps Solve Owner's Murder

Labradoodle refused to leave site where owner's body was 'burned beyond recognition'

(Newser) - Texas woman Mandy Rose Reynolds was murdered by a very bad man, prosecutors say—but her very good dog helped them catch the killer. The dog, a labradoodle named Titan, was found at the site in Robinson, Texas, where Reynolds' body was found "burned beyond recognition" in April last...

In Texas Border Counties, a Shift Doomed Democrats

Hispanics turned to Trump, a reversal of long voting patterns

(Newser) - Jorge Bazan's family has lived on the US-Mexico border for generations and voted for Democrats as long as he can remember. He broke the family tradition this year and voted for Donald Trump because he doesn't trust the Democratic Party's economic policies. "I think they forgot...

Judge's Antisemitism Gives Death Row Inmate New Trial

Texas panel calls former Judge Vickers Cunningham biased against Jewish inmate

(Newser) - A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge who presided over his case, per the AP . By a vote of 6-3, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that Randy Halprin's conviction be overturned...

7 Wild Facts About How America Voted

Latino voters move toward Trump as abortion appears to take a back seat

(Newser) - The dust is settling, and though in some ways the 2024 presidential election was typical , there are several ways in which it wasn't.
  • Improving all over: Despite facing numerous legal battles and controversies since leaving the White House, former President Trump improved on his 2020 margin in 92% of
...

Senate Race Has a Whole Bunch of Nail-Biters
Dems on Defense in Senate
Race, With Possible Upsets
THE RUNDOWN
Nov 5, 2024 7:31 AM CST

Dems on Defense in Senate Race, With Possible Upsets

Among them: Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred in Texas, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell vs. Rick Scott in Florida

(Newser) - Democrats currently claim the slimmest majority in the US Senate, 51-49, but they're playing defense heading into Election Day, almost certainly losing Joe Manchin's seat in West Virginia to a Republican and defending seven seats in conservative or swing states, reports NPR . There are 34 seats in total...

Court Suspends Panel That Decided History Book Is Fiction

Recent decisions by Montgomery County's citizens review board have been stayed

(Newser) - The Texas review board that mandated public libraries move a book about the mistreatment of Native Americans to the "fiction" section has been suspended, as have all of its recent decisions, in response to widespread pushback. That means historian Linda Coombs' Colonization and the Wampanoag Story will be returned...

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