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Rickey Smiley’s 19-year-old daughter is recovering after being shot multiple times in Houston, Texas, Sunday night.

Cafe Momentum is more than just a great Dallas restaurant — it’s a place where teens coming out of the juvenile justice system are given a second chance. During a 12-month paid internship program created by Cafe Momentum founder Chad Houser, the teens are taught life and job skills and made to feel part of a team — sometimes for...

Mexico’s military says soldiers patrolling in the border city of Nuevo Laredo across from Texas came under fire from drug cartel gunmen, then killed 12 of their attackers in a gunbattle. Mexican soldiers patrolling in the border city of Nuevo Laredo came under fire from drug cartel gunmen Friday, then killed 12 of their attackers in a gunbattle, the military…

Grammy-winning country singer Kacey Musgraves and her musician-husband, Ruston Kelly, have filed for divorce. Representatives for both singers confirmed the news Friday to The Associated Press. In a joint statement, Musgraves and Kelly said “we’ve made this painful decision together.” “With heavy but hopeful hearts we wanted to put our own thoughts into the air about what’s happening. These...

As cases of coronavirus spike in Texas, Austin Mayor Steve Adler told LX News that it’s not possible to fully open the economy and still keep people safe from coronavirus. “We need to find a better balance,” he said.

Federal officials are developing plans for a “blitz” of testing in Texas and other states to find young adults who have no symptoms and may be unknowingly spreading the coronavirus.

A Houston bar owner who believed he could no longer provide a safe environment for his staff, customers and himself felt he had no choice but to shut down his business

When a participant at a rally in Austin to protest police brutality threw a rock at a line of officers in the Texas capital, officers responded by firing beanbag rounds — ammunition that law enforcement deems “less lethal” than bullets. A beanbag cracked 20-year-old Justin Howell’s skull and, according to his family, damaged his brain. Adding to the pain, police…

A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic

Florida, Texas and California have seen an explosion in new cases over the past few days, breaking daily records in new cases reported by state. The first coronavirus task force briefing in nearly two months resumes this afternoon.

New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high infection rates, including Texas, to quarantine for 14 days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.

A reward is growing for information in the disappearance of a Fort Hood soldier. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, was last seen on base on April 22. Her car keys and wallet were found in the armory room where she had been working earlier that day. However, Guillen’s cellphone was missing. “We need answers…

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has suspended the permits of 17 bars, including four in North Texas, after checks to see if the establishments were following protocols to stop the spread of COVID-19. The suspensions occurred as part of Operation Safe Open, which began Friday with TABC inspections of more than 200 bars. The TABC issued emergency orders for a…

Connie Claxton has spent 50 years working at Whataburger. The Texas woman, who has worked at multiple locations and every position inside the fast-food restaurant, says she has no plans of retiring.

A reward is growing for information in the disappearance of a Fort Hood soldier.

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BROWNSVILLE — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the execution to proceed next week of a man condemned for the fatal stabbing more than 20 years ago of an 85-year-old woman. Ruben Gutierrez, 43, is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1998 killing of Escolastica Harrison at her home in Brownsville, which is in Texas’ southern tip…

Police say a man who was turned away from a bar in Texas has shot and wounded at least eight people in the parking lot and remains at large.

Small Business Administration Administrator, Jovita Carranza, stopped in Dallas on Friday to meet with small businesses who have taken advantage of federal loans and grants as Texas moves to Phase 3 of reopening.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was in Dallas Friday for a round table discussion on police reform. He’s been asked to recommend possible changes in federal law. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports the panel included people excluded from President Trump’s meeting Thursday.