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February 29, 2024

Texas helicopter pilot shoulders cost to battle raging wildfires: 'Everything around town is completely ash'

Dustin Johnson, a pilot helping fight out-of-control wildfires devastating Texas, describes the severity of the devastation in the Panhandle region.

February 29, 2024

Texas law letting police arrest illegal border crossers blocked by federal judge

Federal judge David Ezra has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Texas from enforcing a new law that would make illegal immigration a state crime.

February 29, 2024

Texas state representative: ‘I’ve never seen anything like this in my life’

Texas Republican State Rep. Janie Lopez on the border crisis and why she believes Biden is responsible

February 29, 2024

Biden's border visit lands on one of the least trafficked towns, while Trump is headed into the thick of it

President Biden is visiting a section of the border that best fits with his narrative that the U.S. immigration crisis is being managed effectively.

February 29, 2024

More than 100 firefighters tackle abandoned building blaze that spread to hotel

Austin Fire Department investigators are looking into what caused a fire at an abandoned three-story building that spread to a nearby operating hotel on Wednesday.

February 29, 2024

Texas man receives life sentence after sexually assaulting 4 women in their homes

Jeffery Lemor Wheat, 52, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attacking four women in the Dallas area, including three who were members of a Black sorority, officials say.

February 28, 2024

Texas wildfire ravages nearly 900,000 acres in second largest fire in state's history

Wildfire have ravaged nearly 900,000 acres of the Texas panhandle in the state's second largest recorded fire since the state started recording data in 2005.

February 28, 2024

Texas troopers recover 5 unaccompanied children in Eagle Pass carrying New York addresses

Texas state troopers on Wednesday recovered at least five unaccompanied children among dozens of illegal immigrants in Eagle Pass.

February 28, 2024

Texas inmate executed after being convicted of double murder in 2001, insisted he was innocent

Texas inmate Ivan Cantu, 50, became the first 2024 execution in Texas on Wednesday, while disputing his 2001 double murder conviction and maintaining his innocence.

February 28, 2024

Houston Lakewood Church shooter was previously arrested on gun charges

A police report from 2022 in Katy, Texas, details a previous weapons charges arrest for the woman who opened fire at a Houston megachurch earlier this month.