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A 49-year-old Rockwall man was arrested Thursday after authorities said they found child pornography in his home. Russell Otto Hyland II faces a charge of possession of child pornography. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Officers conducted a search of Hyland’s home Thursday morning after getting a tip several months ago from the National Center for Missing and Exploited …

Texas high schoolers’ STAAR results modestly improved over last year but have mostly not returned to pre-pandemic levels. The Texas Education Agency released statewide results of end-of-course exams on Thursday, which showed students are making up some ground in math. “We have made some progress to date, but there is still work to be done to fully recover from the …

A former Arlington police officer who fatally shot a man last year after a brief pursuit has been indicted on a murder charge. Robert Emmett Phillips(Tarrant County Sheriff’s Departm) A Tarrant County grand jury handed up the indictment Thursday for 37-year-old Robert Emmett Phillips. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. The Arlington Police Department noted in a written statement …

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Multiple people were shot at a church in Alabama on Thursday evening and a shooting suspect has been taken into custody, police said. Police said the shooting took place at Saint Stephens Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills on Thursday. A police statement said authorities received a call reporting an active shooter …

A 31-year-old man is in custody after police say he harbored a 13-year-old girl at the center of an Amber Alert. Nolan Chase Neighbors was arrested on a charge of harboring a runaway child. His bail has not been set, and it’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Authorities issued an Amber Alert early Thursday for the girl and received …

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A recount was underway Thursday in a Texas primary race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros following their tight runoff in May. Before the recount, Cuellar had been leading Cisneros by 187 votes, or 0.4 percentage points, out of 45,429 ballots counted as of last week, according to an Associated Press count. …

City officials didn’t respond to questions Thursday about who would lead an investigation stemming from Dallas City Council infighting over how to handle the city manager’s continued employment. Three council members sent a letter to embattled City Manager T.C. Broadnax Wednesday asking him to look into the “appropriateness and ethics” associated with the filing last week of a memo that …

WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican senators were at odds Thursday over how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week. Lawmakers said they remained divided over how to define abusive dating partners who would be legally barred from purchasing firearms. …

HOUSTON — As delegates ate and drank on his tab, Gov. Greg Abbott rallied Republicans to beat Democrat Beto O’Rourke in November in order to keep Texas a conservative state. And he unleashed fresh attacks on President Joe Biden, accusing the Democrat again of not securing the nation’s southern border. “It was Trump who secured the border. It’s Biden who has made the …

Dips in adoption. Staffing shortages. Disease outbreaks. These are just some of the challenges North Texas animal shelters are facing in what continues to be an unusually hard year for shelters around the country. The nonprofit Best Friends Animal Society released a report in January foreshadowing the difficult times ahead. The report showed the number of dogs and cats available …