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GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said. The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food …

For families in Uvalde, Sunday brought with it the weight of the most exhaustive account of their loved one’s final moments yet. In a long-awaited, 77-page report, a Texas House committee concluded there is not one person to blame, but instead a long series of “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” that allowed the deadliest school shooting in state …

As practitioners in the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry, pharmacists are comfortable within the confines of rules. Every medication comes with restrictions on who can receive it, what conditions it can treat and at what doses it should be given. Yet the vague language of Texas’ abortion laws, accompanied by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade, has pharmacists floating in …

WASHINGTON — For just over a decade, more than 800,000 young immigrants brought into the country as children have been safe from deportation thanks to an executive order known as DACA. President Barack Obama justified the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as a “temporary stopgap measure,” needed because of years of inaction by Congress — despite overwhelming public support for Dreamers, …

A Texas House committee investigating the May massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde released a long-awaited preliminary report on the shooting Sunday. It’s the second report released in as many weeks examining several decisions concerning the police response to the shooting. The three committee members — Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock; Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso and former state Supreme Court Justice …

WASHINGTON — Efforts in states to further restrict medication abortion face legal questions over potential conflicts with federal drug regulations. And experts are noting the potential federal court precedent set in a regulatory case from 2014 in Massachusetts that declared: “If the Commonwealth were able to countermand the FDA’s determinations and substitute its own requirements, it would undermine the FDA’s …

While North Texas as a whole has grown to 7.8 million people during the pandemic, Dallas County has lost almost a full percentage point of its population. The U.S Census Bureau says Dallas County’s population in July 2021 dropped to 2,556,050 – about 25,000 residents down from the previous year. North Texas’ three other most populous counties: Tarrant, Collin and …

WASHINGTON — Sherman Mayor David Plyler thinks back to the many conference calls and long work weekends involved in the “dogfight” to land a new $5 billion GlobiTech plant that will produce silicon wafers. Besides Sherman, the Taiwan-based parent company GlobalWafers Co. was considering locations in Ohio and South Korea for the facility expected to create 1,500 new jobs. The city north …

AUSTIN — The Democrat who wants to be “the most powerful lawmaker in Texas,” Mike Collier, is running as Mr. Grid Fixer. While the state Democratic convention that wrapped up in Dallas on Saturday symbolically crowned Beto O’Rourke as its gubernatorial hopeful, Collier, a Kingwood accountant and businessman challenging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, assigned himself a special role: punching back at GOP state leaders in …

DEL RIO–Border arrests of migrants declined 14 percent in June over May, possibly reflecting the effectiveness of a U.S.-backed migration crackdown within Mexico. The decrease comes as Republican politicians, led by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, ramp up rhetoric and spending at the border as rising numbers of migrants arrive. Human rights groups have said that migrants are subjected to growing abuses, …