Texas Reps. Michael Cloud, R-Victoria, Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, and Chip Roy, R-Austin, voted against a House bill Tuesday to award four congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the building on January 6, 2021. The bill, introduced by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, passed 406-21 with strong bipartisan support. Cloud, Gohmert and Roy …

Donald Trump will tour the state’s border with Mexico later this month, after accepting an invitation from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to investigate what Trump termed an “unmitigated disaster zone.” The trip, on June 30, is an apparent response to Vice President Kamala Harris not visiting the U.S.-Mexico border amid ongoing tensions over how to address an influx of migrants. …

A robbery Monday evening led to the second shooting in a week outside Eastern Hills High School in Fort Worth. Police were called to the campus in the 5700 block of Shelton Street, near Meadowbrook Drive and Weiler Boulevard, about 7:30 p.m. after a shooting was reported in the parking lot. The victim, who had been shot in the hand, …

Paul Quinn College, like most nationwide, was forced to shut down its campus to students because of the pandemic. President Michael Sorrell talked with school officials about how they could turn this into an opportunity to grow. “We said, ‘What can we do if students didn’t come back to campus for 18 months?’” Sorrell recalled. On Tuesday the college celebrated …

A DeSoto teenager has been arrested on a manslaughter charge after a high-speed crash earlier this month that killed a Dallas ISD mentor. Norkendric Jackson, 17, was taken into custody at his home Tuesday morning in connection with the death of 42-year-old Hanan Ali-Lacy. It was unclear whether he had an attorney. Police said Jackson more than 90 mph on …

Texas on Tuesday became the latest conservative state to bar certain concepts related to race and racism from being discussed in the classroom, ignoring the passionate objections of educators who say the new law will make it harder for them to teach about America’s true past and present. A bill that legislators say sought to ban “critical race theory” in …

A man is accused of sex trafficking and other felonies after authorities found a missing girl in his Lake Worth motel room last week, police said Tuesday. Jesse Lee Manuel Jr., 50, was arrested on charges of trafficking of a child to engage in sexual conduct, sexual assault of a child and delivery of a controlled substance to a minor. …

A man drowned while swimming in Grapevine Lake on Tuesday evening, authorities said. Grapevine police and fire crews were called about 7:30 p.m. to Oak Grove Park, where a man in his early 30s who had been submerged for more than 10 minutes. The Grapevine Fire Department said the man had not been wearing a life jacket and was pulled …

rus Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …