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chron.com —  1+ day ago

...Coast Guard (Galveston station) spotted the man around 1 p.m. in the Gulf waters near Texas City, which is located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay.... ...Officials did not reveal how the man ended up stranded in the Gulf but warned that anyone heading out in the water should wear a life jacket "regardless of the activities they have planned." The kitesurfer was not injured...

texasmonthly.com —  1+ hour, 53+ min ago

...The Texas Rangers are older than Texas itself--at least by one metric. Austin created the group of cowboy-lawmen in 1823, more than two decades before Texas joined the Union. (Tejano, Black, and Indigenous Texans had already lived here for centuries.)... ...While many Texans are grateful to individual Rangers for protecting them from violence or for bringing criminals to justice, others…The post Delve Deeper Into the Violent, Complex History of the Texas Rangers With These Eleven Stories appeared first on Texas Monthly....

foxnews.com —  1+ hour, 6+ min ago

...If convicted of capital murder, Juan David Ortiz, 39, faces life in prison without parole because prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty. At the time of his arrest, Ortiz, a Navy veteran, was a Border Patrol intel supervisor.... ...BORDER PATROL AGENT ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF KILLING 4 WOMEN AND KIDNAPPING A 5TH "You will see and you will hear, through his own words, how he took each woman to their last resting place, how he executed them," Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz told jurors during opening statements...

foxnews.com —  1+ hour, 41+ min ago

...Monday, special agents from the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division (CID) located a truck tractor semi-trailer suspected of concealing several illegal immigrants at a junkyard on State Highway 359 in Webb County.... ...The illegal immigrants, 35 males, 10 females, and eight juveniles from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador were referred to the U.S. Border Patrol....

news.yahoo.com —  8+ hour, 57+ min ago

...His death was announced on Nov. 28 by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he taught in the College of Fine Arts. "It is with profound sadness that I share this news," said UNLV Dean Nancy J. Uscher in a news release.... ...The Washington native grew up around the country as an Air Force brat before a class at Cal State University, Long Beach, got him into acting, according to Variety....

news.yahoo.com —  9+ hour, 23+ min ago

...With 2 million Houston residents now having to boil water to cook and clean after a power outage at a water treatment plant, Texas continues its history of power grid failures and poor water quality.... ..."We still have no indication that the system was compromised at any point," Houston Public Works Director Carol Haddock told the Texas Tribune. Officials in Houston have attempted to quell concerns about the outage....

chron.com —  13+ min ago

...The West Loop between Interstate 10 and Interstate 69 in the Galleria/Uptown area ranked the No.1 spot among the 100 most traffic congested roads in the state of Texas, according to a report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute for the state Department of Transportation.... ...According to David Shrank, a senior research scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the data in the report is represented in a magnitude of all commuters instead of per-person analysis. "We know how many cars went through there....

foxnews.com —  2+ hour, 17+ min ago

...El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales, a Democrat who was elected in 2020, agreed to resign during a court hearing Monday, El Paso television station KTSM reported. Her last day will be Dec.... ...TEXAS WOMAN ACCUSED OF SCAMMING ONLINE BOYFRIEND OUT OF $1.2 MILLION, USED MONEY AT CASINOS: REPORT El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal wrote last week in an amended petition that when it came to the Walmart shooting, Rosales" office "could not even tell the court what work had been done...

theguardian.com —  1+ day ago

...Texas woman found by family 51 years after being kidnapped as baby. Melissa Highsmith, who family say was abducted in Fort Worth in 1971, located in South Carolina, more than 1,000 miles away.... ...Highsmith was a year old in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1971 when her mother, Alta Apantenco, published a newspaper advertisement asking for a babysitter....

texastribune.org —  14+ hour, 36+ min ago

...Greg Abbott announces new DFPS commissioner, reappoints former leader  The Texas Tribune...