State troopers are banking huge sums of overtime — some more than six figures in a year — under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security push. Since the operation began in March 2021, the Texas Department of Public Safety has paid at least $68 million in overtime to officers sent to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Today is the day. Erath County voters head to the polls to cast their ballots in city council and school board races, as well as state constitution and school district bond elections.
Kay Trent was already attending Austin Community College while living in the San Antonio area when she decided to moved to Austin to qualify for lower tuition rates. Trent, 29, a former English as a second language teacher, sold nearly all of her belongings to move to the city about eight months ago and then was immediately confronted by the city’s high rents.
SANTA TERESA, N.M. — The Mexican government said it intends to shift longrange plans to build a trade railway connection worth billions of dollars from Texas to New Mexico in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stepped-up border inspections last month.
On average, 1,200 tornadoes hit the United States each year, according to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), and while twisters can happen at any time and in any state, the prevailing wisdom has held that most of the large twisters occur in Tornado Alley, an expansive area within the central U.S. designated by meteorologists in the mid-20th century. That definition may be changing.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32- year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year.
Swap meet, car show set for May 6-8 The 2022 Swap Meet & Car Show at Chicken House Flea Market is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WARSAW, Poland – War-ravaged Ukraine received pledges for $6.5 billion more in humanitarian aid Thursday at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw that sought to get Ukrainians urgent help while still planning for the country’s postwar reconstruction.
Bruner Toyota, based in Brown County, has received the Toyota President’s Award for 2021. This marks the eighth year that Bruner Toyota has received this award since becoming a Toyota dealer in 2007.
LONDON – The World Health Organization estimates that about 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.