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Christina Belcher woke up in her teal Hyundai Elantra after a restless night in the Albertson’s parking lot. The stay-at-home mom of two boys, a 9-year-old and a 13-year-old, couldn’t believe this is what her life looked like that July with her 33rd birthday around the corner. Just six months after moving to McKinney by way of Oregon, along with …

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott sat under the blistering South Texas sun last month, razor wire and natural brush at his back, and emphatically declared that no state has done more at protecting the U.S.-Mexico border than the Lone Star State. At the time, the Legislature was in the final weeks of its biennial legislative session, with a slew of immigration-related proposals …

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a “semantic brain decoder” to guess someone’s thoughts based on brain activity. During tests, it captured the gist of what someone was thinking, rather than a literal translation. And if participants resisted, it produced gibberish. The decoder, written about in the journal Nature Neuroscience in May, is novel, said Edmund Lalor, an associate professor of …

Plano police will utilize new controversial license plate camera readers that its law enforcement officials say assist in recovering stolen vehicles and locating abducted children. The Plano City Council approved at a May 22 meeting the Plano Police Department’s purchase of 40 L5Q and 10 L6Q Motorola deployable license plate reader cameras with a five-year service subscription. The purchase will …

I bet you a kilowatt-hour that The Watchdog can show you what happened in the 2023 Texas Legislature that may increase your monthly light bill. I’ll do it in plain talk. No electro-gibberish here. Will your light bill go up because of actions by lawmakers on behalf of business and industry? You bet your sweet bippy! Another Laugh-In expression summarizes …

The future of an embattled teacher preparation company – which enrolls more educator candidates than any other program in Texas – will remain in limbo after a Travis County judge threw a curveball in the state’s plans. Texas Teachers of Tomorrow – also known as A+ Texas Teachers – is under scrutiny after failing to prove to state education officials …

The chance for spotty showers and thunderstorms continues once again today. These will be the “pop-up” variety later this afternoon as things heat up. In the meantime, lingering morning showers will dissipate and allow for partial sunshine before the spotty storms redevelop. Any storms that develop could produce heavy downpours and gusty winds, but are not expected to become severe. …

All lanes of Interstate 30 in Garland were closed Monday morning because of a crash involving a tractor-trailer, police said. The crash was reported about 3:30 a.m. near Broadway Boulevard, closing all eastbound and westbound lanes. Live traffic cameras from the Texas Department of Transportation still showed heavy traffic before 6:30 a.m. Interstate 30 in Garland was closed because of …

As Dallas-Fort Worth development continues its path north, Frisco is seeing its fair share of growth, ranking 15th in Texas for population increase, with more than 8,500 new residents moving there last year, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. The city’s population for 2022 is 219,587, up from 211,081 in 2021, showing a 4% growth rate, the data shows. Frisco’s 2022 …

One of Texas’ state parks that’s been at the center of a months-long property rights saga — which isn’t showing signs of being over anytime soon — has closed to the public for the second time this year and possibly forever. The local developer that purchased the park land and surrounding land totaling roughly 5,000 acres to build a luxury gated community with …