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Conservationists urge Congress to fund program to save Texas species

Texas conservationists, including state parks officials, gathered at the San Antonio Zoo Wednesday to urge the U.S. Senate to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, which was approved by the House the day before.

The act would create an annual fund of $1.39 billion that would go to states, territories and tribes with the aim of aiding their wildlife conservation efforts. These funds would help protect vulnerable Texas species on the Texas Conservation Action Plan, such as the whooping crane, the Texas horned lizard and the K ... Read more

Umpires Set for 2022 Little League® Baseball and Softball S

The volunteer umpires for the 2022 Little League® Baseball and Softball Southwest Region Tournaments, set to take place at Marvin Norcross Stadium at the George W. Bush Little League Southwest Leadership Training Center in Waco, Texas, have been ann ... Read more

Texas AFT Member, President Testify at Uvalde Listening Sess

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(Left to right) State Senator Roland Gutierrez, Texas AFT President Zeph Capo, IDRA National Director of Policy, Advocacy and Community Engagement Morgan Craven, and Texas AFT member Lorena Auguste testify at the Uvalde congress ... Read more

No. 5 Texas Wesleyan edges No. 6 Wayland Baptist to win NAIA

Sooner Athletic Conference women's wrestling champions, Texas Wesleyan. Photo by Tisha Langdon Brown.



OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Led by four individual champions, No. 5 Texas Wesleyan claimed the women’s team title for the ... Read more

Texas state senator demands answers for parents of Uvalde victims

A Texas state lawmaker said Thursday he wants a full accounting of “what kind of failures” happened in the police response to the Uvalde school shooting.

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat who spoke to CNN, said the parents of victims deserve nothing less than a full accounting amid reports the shooter went through an unlocked door and desperate parents begged police to do more to stop him.

Officers did not engage the shooter as he entered, as authorities previously said, and it took almost an hour for tactica ... Read more

Three-year-old Honduran boy called for his 'mamá and papá'

An unaccompanied three-year-old boy from Central America was found among a group migrants who had been smuggled from Mexico across the Rio Grande in Texas - and were able to contact the boy's family after finding a phone number scrawled on his shirt. ... Read more

The Limits of Cultural Revisionism in Hulu’s ‘Pam & Tomm

Premiering on 2 February, Hulu’s limited series Pam & Tommy is the latest television show to offer its revisionist take on an infamous moment of 1990s popular culture. With Amazon’s Lorena (2019), USA Network’s Dirty John: The Betty Broderick S ... Read more

Olivares: A Small Christmas Miracle in La Joya

A week ago, Tuesday, the La Joya City Council adopted an ethics ordinance, and no, this isn’t a joke. Really.

Given a litany of public scandals involving the former mayor, former city manager and former housing director, the public, in ... Read more