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Marshall Gets a Sabre Industries Plant and a Two-Day Career Fair
The maker of transmission towers, poles and electrical enclosures is opening a plant near I-20 in Marshall and is hiring for skilled trades and other roles.
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Scanners Fail in Westchester, Bomb Threats Empty Polling Places and Precincts Stay Open Late. Fix the Problems, Skip the Rumors.
What went wrong at the polls on Election Day, from Westchester County's ballot scanners to bomb threats and extended hours, how officials responded and what election security trackers reported.
Trump Says U.S. Aid to Israel Will End This Year, Announcing It on Election Day. A Change This Big Belongs in the Open.
What President Trump said on Election Day about ending U.S. aid to Israel, what the 2016 aid agreement actually provides, what role Congress plays and how Israeli leaders reacted.
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Marshall Gets a Sabre Industries Plant and a Two-Day Career Fair
The maker of transmission towers, poles and electrical enclosures is opening a plant near I-20 in Marshall and is hiring for skilled trades and other roles.
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View all →Scanners Fail in Westchester, Bomb Threats Empty Polling Places and Precincts Stay Open Late. Fix the Problems, Skip the Rumors.
What went wrong at the polls on Election Day, from Westchester County's ballot scanners to bomb threats and extended hours, how officials responded and what election security trackers reported.
Trump Says U.S. Aid to Israel Will End This Year, Announcing It on Election Day. A Change This Big Belongs in the Open.
What President Trump said on Election Day about ending U.S. aid to Israel, what the 2016 aid agreement actually provides, what role Congress plays and how Israeli leaders reacted.
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Alice ISD Cuts the Ribbon on Its $38 Million Memorial Stadium
The 6,000-seat stadium replaced the nearly 80-year-old Skydome on the same site. The district plans graduations and student events there as well as football.
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Luling Moves to Seek Bids for an Aquatics Center After a $1 Million Gift
Luling's council will consider putting a pool and splash pad out for bids Thursday. The city says it has slightly over $3 million available, including a $1 million gift.
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Melvin Turns Down a Deal to Pay for Brady Ambulance Service. Brady Must Decide What Comes Next
Melvin declined an EMS agreement with Brady, leaving the Brady council to decide Tuesday whether to keep answering calls unpaid. RV rules and sirens are also up.
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The History of Gonzales, Texas
Gonzales, Texas (ZIP 78629) was founded twice as the capital of Green DeWitt’s colony, refused to give a cannon back in 1835, sent thirty-two men to die at the Alamo and was burned by Sam Houston’s retreating army. Here is the fuller record, including the parts the slogan leaves out.
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What's Being Cleared Beside Meating Place BBQ? Legacy Grove Is Moving Toward SH 105
City records point to Legacy Grove Section 2 as the project behind the clearing near Meating Place BBQ on Eva Street. Here's what has been approved, what is still preliminary, and what the neighborhood rumors got right—and wrong.
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Could You Pass the Texas Game Warden Fitness Test? Applications for the Next Cadet Class Are Open
Texas Parks and Wildlife is taking applications for its 70th law enforcement cadet class through Dec. 31. The physical test includes a backward fall into a pool, a timed swim and a rowing machine. Here is how the state says to train.
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Energy Drinks and Stimulant Supplements Show Up Far More Often in Reports of Cardiac Arrest in Young Adults. Temperance Is Not Old-Fashioned.
A preliminary study of FDA adverse-event reports found energy drinks and stimulant supplements were linked to cardiac arrest and heart attacks far more often than other products, especially among adults 18 to 34. It does not prove cause.
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Texas Plans $87 Million More for 129 Rural Health Providers. Here Is Where the Money Is Meant to Go
A new round of Rural Texas Strong grants targets chronic disease, small-town doctor and EMS recruiting, and worn-out equipment. It is federal money, and no dollar flows until a contract is signed.
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Texas Deer Season Opens Saturday With 5.64 Million Whitetails. Here Is the Outlook Region by Region
Three good fawn years pushed the Texas whitetail herd to an estimated 5.64 million. State biologists expect a good season, with the best odds in the Hill Country, Cross Timbers and Rolling Plains.
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Screwworm Turned Up in a Hunter's Elk. Here Is How to Check Your Deer Before Saturday's Opener
A Pecos County hunter's elk carried New World screwworm, and general deer season opens Nov. 7. Wildlife officials want every hunter to inspect the harvest and report anything suspicious.
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Texas Opens 18,000 Wild Acres on the Devils River. What to Know Before You Go
The Dan A. Hughes Unit of Devils River State Natural Area, an hour north of Del Rio, is now open with primitive riverside camping, 10 miles of trail and some of the darkest skies in Texas. Reservations are recommended.
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Texas Anglers Have Until Nov. 4 to Weigh In on a Fishing Rules Cleanup. Here Is What Would Change
TPWD wants to trim outdated fishing rules, add a live-well exception for ShareLunker bass and clarify limits on guided boats and oversized redfish. The flounder closure stays. Comments close Nov. 4.
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Duck Hunters Can Carry Giant Salvinia and Zebra Mussels Lake to Lake. TPWD Says a Few Minutes of Cleaning Stops It
Texas Parks and Wildlife is asking waterfowl hunters to clean, drain and dry boats, decoys and waders between lakes. Giant salvinia is on 30 East Texas lakes and zebra mussels are in 40.
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Trump Says U.S. Aid to Israel Will End This Year, Announcing It on Election Day. A Change This Big Belongs in the Open.
What President Trump said on Election Day about ending U.S. aid to Israel, what the 2016 aid agreement actually provides, what role Congress plays and how Israeli leaders reacted.
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Alice ISD Cuts the Ribbon on Its $38 Million Memorial Stadium
The 6,000-seat stadium replaced the nearly 80-year-old Skydome on the same site. The district plans graduations and student events there as well as football.
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Austin Voters Decide Today on $295 Million in Park and Library Bonds
Austin's Propositions A and B would borrow $260 million for parks and $35 million for libraries. The city estimates the most each would add on a $100,000 homestead at $8.14 and $1.10 a year.
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Texas Buys Back 46 More Commercial Oyster Licenses. Nearly 30% of Licenses Are Now Retired
Texas Parks and Wildlife paid 0,000 each to retire 46 commercial oyster licenses this fall. With private donors behind the program, nearly 30% of the licenses are gone after two years.
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U.S. Strikes Iran's Qeshm Island on the Eve of the Midterms as Talks Go On. Defend Our Forces, and Tell Americans the Truth.
What U.S. officials have said about Monday's strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, where talks to end the Iran war stand, and why the strait matters to Americans.
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Schertz Now Requires a Council Vote and Public Hearing for Any New Data Center
Schertz defined data centers in its code for the first time and now requires a specific use permit in its manufacturing districts. The planning commission had wanted them limited to heavy industry.
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Could You Pass the Texas Game Warden Fitness Test? Applications for the Next Cadet Class Are Open
Texas Parks and Wildlife is taking applications for its 70th law enforcement cadet class through Dec. 31. The physical test includes a backward fall into a pool, a timed swim and a rowing machine. Here is how the state says to train.
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Hispanic Conservatives of Montgomery County Will Review Midterm Results Nov. 9
Hispanic Conservatives of Montgomery County will meet Nov. 9 in Shenandoah to review the 2026 midterm election results and discuss what comes next.
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The Justice Department Is Sending a Record 1,000 Monitors to the Polls Today. Watch Fairly, Stay Behind the Rope.
What the Justice Department's record Election Day monitoring effort involves, what monitors may and may not do at polling places, and how state officials from Kansas to Colorado are responding.
