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Cops: Girls Planned 'Mass Casualty Attack' on Texas High School

FBI informed local law enforcement of credible threat from girls, ages 15 and 16

(Newser) - Two girls, ages 15 and 16, are accused of plotting a "mass casualty attack" on a high school in Texas, authorities say. The girls allegedly planned to use guns and pipe bombs in an attack on Memorial High School in the Houston suburb of Hedwig Village, KPRC 2 reports....

KFC Is Leaving Kentucky
There Is No More
'Kentucky' in KFC

There Is No More 'Kentucky' in KFC

Company is moving headquarters out of Louisville. Hello, Texas Fried Chicken?

(Newser) - Kentucky Fried Chicken is about to become Texas-based Kentucky Fried Chicken. The restaurant chain is moving its headquarters from Kentucky to Texas, a state with low corporate taxes, the Guardian reports. In a Tuesday statement , Yum! Brands CEO David Gibbs said the move would "position us for sustainable growth"...

Texas Takes on New York in Abortion Pill Battle

Texas poised to test telemedicine abortion shield law in case against NY doctor

(Newser) - Texas law bans nearly all abortions and threatens abortion providers with up to life in prison and $100,000 fines. New York law, on the other hand, protects abortion providers, including those who send medications to patients in other states. Those laws now look poised to clash at the Supreme...

2 Men Executed an Hour Apart
2 Men Executed,
One Hour Apart

2 Men Executed, One Hour Apart

Richard Lee Tabler executed in Texas after James Dennis Ford put to death in Florida

(Newser) - Texas and Florida both carried out executions Thursday night, about an hour apart:
  • In Florida, James Dennis Ford was put to death via lethal injection, USA Today reports. In 1997, Ford invited his co-worker Gregory Malnory and Malnory's wife, Kimberly, on a fishing trip to a sod farm. They
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Texas Measles Outbreak Hits 24 Cases

None of those who contracted virus were vaccinated

(Newser) - A measles outbreak in a Texas county with low vaccination rates was at 24 cases as of Tuesday. Just two of those are adults, the rest are children, and none of them had been vaccinated against the highly contagious virus, the New York Times reports. Nine have been hospitalized. Gaines...

Man May Have Overreacted a Tad at Seat Change Request
Man May Have Overreacted
a Tad at Seat Change Request
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Man May Have Overreacted a Tad at Seat Change Request

'Combative' passenger on Frontier flight to Houston tried, and almost succeeded, in breaking window

(Newser) - A flight from Denver to Houston got messy on Tuesday evening when one of the passengers tried (and seemed to almost succeed) to break one of the plane's windows midair. ABC News reports that Frontier Airlines Flight 4856 was not even a half-hour into its trip when a witness...

Judge Blocks Sandy Hook Families' Settlement Deal

Christopher Lopez says he doesn't have authority to carve up Infowars assets for victims' families

(Newser) - Sandy Hook families will have to wait a little longer to recoup anything from Alex Jones. On Wednesday, a federal bankruptcy judge froze a settlement deal between families who say the conspiracy theorist spewed false claims regarding the 2012 mass shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, per Reuters...

Texas Executes Man Who Robbed, Killed Pastor

Steven Lawayne Nelson died by lethal injection

(Newser) - A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas-area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the US this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months, the AP reports. Steven Lawayne Nelson,...

Best States for Drivers
Best States for Drivers

Best States for Drivers

Hawaii ranks last on WalletHub's list; Kansas is handing out the fahrvergnügen

(Newser) - Your commute can make or break you before it's even 9am, as can a five-minute drive to the grocery store that turns into 30 due to traffic. WalletHub wanted to find where it's not so onerous to get behind the wheel, so it looked at driving conditions in...

Texas Woman Awarded Nearly $3M for Barbecue Sauce Burns
'Dangerously Hot' Sauce
Scores Woman Nearly $3M
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'Dangerously Hot' Sauce Scores Woman Nearly $3M

Texas' Genesis Monita says she was scalded on leg by too-hot sauce from Bill Miller Bar-B-Q

(Newser) - A Texas woman has been awarded nearly $3 million from a barbecue restaurant chain after she says she was scalded by too-hot barbecue sauce in a takeout order. Per the negligence suit filed by 19-year-old Genesis Monita, she and her sister visited a Bill Miller Bar-B-Q in San Antonio on...

7 Police Officers Shot After Call About Suicide in Progress

Suspect was found dead in San Antonio apartment after standoff

(Newser) - Seven police officers were shot in San Antonio on Wednesday night after responding to a call about a "suicide in progress" in the city's Stone Oak neighborhood. "Scene still hot!!" San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus said in a post on X at 10:13pm local...

Houston, We Have a Drug-Addicted Rat Problem

City to eliminate narcotics evidence seized prior to 2015 as critters are getting high in police storerooms

(Newser) - Authorities in Houston, Texas, are looking to destroy long-held evidence that has spawned "drug-addicted rats" in police storerooms. At a Friday press conference, Houston police chief J Noe Diaz described "over 1.2 million pieces of evidence" held by the city's police, including notes from a 1947...

Ken Paxton Sues Allstate: 'Texans Deserve Better'

Texas AG accuses insurance firm of collecting driving data via mobile apps to raise rates

(Newser) - Texas isn't so sure you're in good hands with Allstate. State Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced that his office is suing the insurance company, alleging that it gathered location data from more than 45 million customers, which was then sold or otherwise used to build the...

Pair Sentenced After Child Sex Abuse Files Fall Out of Walls

Father and son sentenced to lengthy prison terms following renovation at their former home

(Newser) - A father and son convicted of multiple child sex crimes after damning photographs and video tapes fell out of walls at their former property have been sentenced. Theodore Smith, 90, was sentenced to 100 years in prison last month after pleading no contest to 11 counts of committing forcible lewd...

Lawsuit: High School Coaches Injured Players With Push-Up Order

Some of the players involved were hospitalized with a dangerous condition

(Newser) - A parent of one of the students involved in a 2023 high school football practice that allegedly included 398 push-ups is now suing the coaches allegedly involved. Investigators found 26 students had symptoms of rhabdomyolysis after the workout, and a dozen of those met the criteria to be diagnosed with...

Texas Girl Arrested After Rival's Goat Drops Dead
Texas Girl
Arrested After
Rival's Goat
Drops Dead
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Texas Girl Arrested After Rival's Goat Drops Dead

Aubrey Vanlandingham, 17, is accused of poisoning show animal with pesticide

(Newser) - A Texas teen has been hit with animal cruelty charges after being accused of poisoning a rival's show goat. According to an arrest affidavit, 17-year-old Aubrey Vanlandingham is accused of using a drench gun to force pesticide down the throat of the animal named Willie, reports the Guardian .
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Texas' $100K Billboard Campaign Warns Migrants of Rape

Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered 40 signs in 4 languages to go up in Mexico, Central America

(Newser) - Gov. Greg Abbott, who once pledged to "eliminate all rapists" from his state of Texas, is now warning migrants that traffickers could rape and abuse them if they try to make their way to the United States. Per the Washington Post , Abbott is doing so via 40 or so...

Police ID Driver of Truck That Plowed Into Texas Mall

5 injured in Killeen, and the driver was fatally shot by officers

(Newser) - Authorities have identified a pickup truck driver who, while fleeing police, careened through the doors of a JCPenney store at a busy Texas mall, injuring five people before he was fatally shot by officers, the AP reports. John Darrel Schultz, 53, of Kempner drove a truck and crashed into the...

Freight Train Wreck Kills 2 Rail Employees

Union president calls crash a wake-up call after safety measures have stalled

(Newser) - Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday. The train derailed around 5pm Wednesday in Pecos after the collision at a railway crossing, authorities said. The hazardous materials...

Musk's SpaceX Makes Official Push for a New Texas City

Company asks local officials to make its Starbase launch site an incorporated city

(Newser) - SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city. Billionaire Elon Musk's company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase—the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets—into...

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