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Police arrested a man in The Colony and accused him of tweeting a threat toward the Supreme Court following the decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade. Mikeal Deshawn Archambault, 20, was booked into the Denton County jail on a charge of making a terroristic threat June 26 and released the same day after posting a $25,000 bond, jail records show. Authorities …

WASHINGTON — The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe vs. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately. That decision overrules a Harris County judge who had allowed abortion through six weeks to resume temporarily, and puts abortion providers at risk of fines and lawsuits. The state’s high court issued the …

Pete Arredondo will resign from his seat on the Uvalde City Council, he told the Uvalde Leader-News Friday. Arredondo, also the Uvalde Consolidated ISD police chief, was elected to the council position May 7 and was sworn into the role on May 31, behind closed doors. The swearing-in came a week after the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children …

The holiday weekend will feature typical Texas Fourth of July weather: some heat and humidity along with a chance of spotty storms. High temperatures will be mostly in the upper 90s with a heat index of 100 to 102. Spotty thunderstorms developed Saturday afternoon as a tropical disturbance moved north from the Gulf of Mexico through east Texas and Louisiana. …

Two people were killed and four others — including three officers — were wounded Saturday evening after a man armed with a rifle opened fire in Haltom City, police say. The man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Haltom City police said. The three officers and other wounded person were hospitalized and are expected to survive, police said. Haltom City …

If Jonathan Mitchell were a comic book character, he would be drawn holding a lawbook in one hand and in the other, a sledgehammer. Best known as the architect behind Senate Bill 8, the state law that deputizes everyday Texans as abortion bounty hunters, Mitchell has spent years arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should reverse its decision in Roe vs. …

In downtown Sherman, markers explain the city’s past and restaurants and coffee shops boast about the historic buildings they call home. Just 10 minutes down the road, Dallas-based Texas Instruments and Taiwanese-owned silicon wafer builder GlobalWafers plan to spend a combined $35 billion on high-tech factories in the all-important semiconductor supply chain. Shops and various businesses line the street in the old …

AUSTIN — The Travis County district attorney’s office will not proceed with a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for refusal to release his communications around the time of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Despite determining that the attorney general likely violated the state’s open records law, the district attorney’s office said it would not sue because journalists who had …

The holiday weekend will feature typical Texas Fourth of July weather: some heat and humidity along with a chance of spotty storms. High temperatures Saturday and Sunday will be in the mid to upper 90s with a heat index of 100 to 102. There’s a slight chance for spotty thunderstorms on Saturday, but the higher chances will be to the …

Cleanup of a toxic site that leaked cancer-causing chemicals to dozens of homes in Grand Prairie will likely begin sometime in 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency says. But several residents questioned whether enough is being done — and quickly — to address the public health hazard. Federal authorities acknowledged anger with the slow-moving process at a public meeting Thursday evening but said the timeline …