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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 …

A 19-year-old woman was killed and another woman was wounded late Thursday in Lake Highlands, Dallas police say. Officers responded about 11:50 p.m. to the Tides Apartments in the 9500 block of Wickersham Road, near Walnut Hill Lane and Plano Road, where they found the woman lying on the ground with a gunshot wound. A 30-year-old woman also was shot, …

AUSTIN — Texas’ economy is so red hot, the state comptroller soon will increase his revenue projections for the current cycle by a “significant” amount. Already, Republican politicians are talking up more property tax cuts, though paying for them long term is always tricky. On Friday, Comptroller Glenn Hegar said that Texans are back at restaurants and live entertainment venues after the …

EL PASO, Texas — District Court Judge Sam Medrano vigorously pushed back Friday against the local district attorney for giving a trial time frame against the accused Walmart gunman, sternly reminding the prosecutor that only the court can set a trial day. “This court continues to prepare for the trial of this case but this course is not going to …

For a group of passengers trying to get to California on Friday, their flight from Dallas to Long Beach included some tense moments and a lengthy four-hour delay. As Southwest Airlines flight 850 was about to take off, the Boeing 737′s engine failed and a tire blew, according to multiple passengers on the flight. That forced the 12:25 p.m. flight …

Patricia Salguero wasn’t counting on a six-hour delay when she booked her return flight to Honduras. Salguero arrived at DFW International Airport at 8 p.m. Thursday from Los Angeles, with a connecting flight planned for 6 a.m. Friday to Miami. She found out Friday morning that the Miami flight wouldn’t depart until noon. “I slept on the floor,” the 43-year-old …

WASHINGTON – The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe v. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately in civil court. That overrules a Harris County judge who had allowed abortion through six weeks to resume temporarily. The state’s high court issued the order a week after the U.S. Supreme Court …

WASHINGTON — People on all sides of the immigration debate are anxious about what lies ahead policy-wise after the Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Biden administration to end Trump-era regulations that have kept tens of thousands of migrants from entering the United States. The Migrant Protection Protocols, known more colloquially as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, require some …