Texas
- Combat training is a rite of passage for police recruits. It's left a trail of deaths and injuries - Heather Sterling stepped into the ring at the Texas Game Warden Training Center, ready to face an ambush by instructors acting as violent assailants. The four-on-one drill is a rite of passage for those training to be game wardens, sworn o
- Texas sues utility company to recover damages from historic wildfire sparked by downed power lines - Texas has sued the utility company whose downed power lines sparked the largest wildfire in state history, a deadly blaze that destroyed homes and livestock and charred miles of landscape, causing more than $1 billion in damage. The lawsui
- Texas Education Agency Taking Over Lake Worth, Connally and Beaumont School Districts - The Texas Education Agency is replacing the elected school boards of the Beaumont, Connally and Lake Worth school districts, Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Thursday. State law allows Morath to either close a campus or appoint
- Red hot Texas is getting so many data center requests that experts see a bubble - Cheap land and and cheap energy are helping to fuel a boom in proposals to build data centers in Texas.
- Homeowners are losing thousands in equity thanks to weakening prices - Weaker prices mean homeowners are starting to lose equity after several years of huge gains.
- PHOTO ESSAY: In Texas, a former Chinese official targeted by Beijing's surveillance finds refuge - The Chinese government is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance technology, much of it originating in the United States, an Associated Press investigation has found. Among its targets is
- Home prices go negative for the first time in over 2 years — and may stay that way for a while - Home prices have not gone negative since mid-2023, a year after the Federal Reserve first brought rates up from zero, and mortgage rates moved sharply higher.
- Former Michigan coach Sherrone Moore detained by police after being fired - As the story around the Sherrone Moore dismissal at Michigan continues to develop, he has been detained by police on Wednesday evening.
- What Could Thwart the Texas G.O.P. From Picking Up 5 House Seats in Midterm Elections - Republicans redid their voting map so they could flip those seats to help keep control of the U.S. House. But achieving that goal is far from guaranteed.
- US Supreme Court turns away appeal of Texas library book ban - By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S.