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Matt Rinaldi, who has been critical of Gov. Greg Abbott, was unopposed in easily winning reelection as chair of the Texas Republican Party on Friday. The former Dallas County representative was reelected to serve a full term as party chair at the Texas Republican Convention in Houston. Rinaldi had announced his intention to run for reelection in March with two-thirds of the state’s …

A South Texas ranch that just hit the market has deep Texas roots and totals almost 10,000 acres. The Arrowhead Ranch is located near Edinburg in the Rio Grande Valley. The 15-square-mile spread was owned for almost 50 years by the family of four-term Texas senator and U.S. secretary of treasury Lloyd Bentsen. The current owners, Homer and Linda Gomez, …

Myers was arrested in April 2021 on a state charge of theft of property between $2,500 and $30,000. Later that year, the sheriff’s office confirmed her arrest was in connection with an investigation into a debit-card scheme in which nearly $700,000 was stolen from Dallas County jail inmate commissary accounts, but declined to comment further. Myers was employed with the Sheriff’s Department for …

A Dallas man will spend more than 30 years in federal prison after being convicted of two sex trafficking charges. Anthony Lenell Acy, 35, was sentenced Friday to 365 months in federal prison. A jury found him guilty of one count of child sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion on Aug. 5. Acy trafficked a …

Denton police are asking for the public’s help finding 50-year-old Courtney Nix. She was last seen near Interstate 35E and Brinker Road wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, police said. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call 911.

UVALDE — Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told The New York Times. That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop Salvador Ramos before the May 24 rampage inside the school …

U.S. airlines canceled high numbers of flights for a second straight day on Friday as they tried to recover from storms while accommodating growing crowds of summer vacationers. By early afternoon in the eastern U.S., airlines has scrubbed more than 1,100 flights after canceling more than 1,700 on Thursday, according to tracking service FlightAware. Airports with the most cancellations included those …

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police said Friday that officers arrested seven unauthorized people in a congressional office building Thursday night and charged them with unlawful entry. The people identified themselves as being affiliated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Another person familiar with the matter provided the AP …

The most popular vehicle in the U.S. is going electric, and it’s coming to dealers across the country. The first demo models of the Ford F-150 Lightning, an electric version of the best-selling pickup truck, have begun trickling out to dealerships, and a few vehicles have been delivered to the first customers on a very long waiting list. Starting at …

Dallas police have released a video of multiple people of interest in a South Dallas homicide last month. Officers were called around 2:30 a.m. June 4 to the 4800 block of Military Parkway, near Dolphin Road, and found 41-year-old Vernon Rivers wounded. He died at a hospital. Police said Thursday that the shooting took place in the parking lot of a sports …