Queen Elizabeth has wished her beloved cousin Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester and his wife Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester on their golden wedding anniversary. The Buckingham Palace, on behalf of the Queen, shared loved-up photo of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester to wish the couple. The Queen’s message reads: “Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary to The Duke and Duchess of …

A shooting in a Southlake home Tuesday morning has been ruled a murder-suicide between a husband and wife, according to medical examiner records. Officers were called about 10:20 a.m. to a home in the 600 block of Regency Crossing, near Big Bear Creek, where they found a man and a woman dead inside from gunshot wounds. The woman, identified as …

A Carrollton family is on edge and looking for answers more than a week after their apartment was riddled by bullets in the middle of the night. The Ranganis were fast asleep when someone fired dozens of shots toward their apartment, at the Peters Colony apartments in the 1800 block of East Peters Colony Road, shortly before 2:30 a.m. June …

At first, Jesus Guerrero was only mildly annoyed. The 31-year-old Austin artist received a couple of spam mailings that warned him to buy an extended car warranty. The mailings he showed me are supposed to scare you with words such as “official business,” “final notice,” “call immediately” and my favorite: “high-risk potential pre-existing conditions with mechanical or electrical issues on …

AUSTIN – The state’s juvenile detention facilities say staff shortages have forced them to keep youth confined to their rooms for up to 22 hours a day and cut off new intakes. Leaders at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department warn the staffing problem is so severe it could lead to an “inability to provide even basic supervision for youth locked …

A majority of Texans disapprove of the state’s trigger law, which will ban almost all abortions, new polling shows. The Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin shows 54% of respondents said they disapprove of the trigger law, and 37% approve. The law will go into effect in the coming weeks. The poll was conducted from June 16-24, just before …

AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday told state police and Texas National Guard soldiers to take the unauthorized immigrants they apprehend to ports of entry rather than into state custody. The move immediately was denounced from the left and right. Abbott, though, defended his action. He said President Joe Biden has failed to prevent an “invasion” of a state by relaxing …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago. The White House said Biden will speak Friday …

NARA, Japan — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said. Abe, 67, was shot from behind minutes after he started his speech in Nara. He was airlifted to a hospital for emergency …

One in five youth between the ages of 9 and 17 experiences a diagnosable mental health disorder. Yet even the most alarming statistics don’t move us to act — to get beyond the denial, intervene early and persevere for evidence-based treatment. Perhaps that’s because missing from our mental health conversations are the first-hand experiences of teens and adolescents trying to manage their …