Texas
Seven people are dead and 19 have been injured following a mass shooting in Midland-Odessa, Texas, on Saturday afternoon according to authorities. The Odessa Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it was looking for at least one suspect who was “driving around Odessa shooting at random people”. The suspect had apparently hijacked a U.S. mail […]
Cedric Benson, one of the most highly touted running backs in Texas history and former NFL pro, died overnight on Sunday following a motorcycle crash in Austin. He was 36. KUVE in Austin reports that Benson and another woman in her 30s were on a motorcycle when a minivan pulled out of a crossroad and […]
If you want to purchase cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products, there’s a new minimum age requirement you have to meet. Governor Greg Abbot signed into law on Friday, an increase to the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years old to 21. According to those who support the age increase, the law should […]
Georgia Clark, an English teacher in the Fort Worth Independent School District was fired on Tuesday, less than a week after she was suspended due to her activity on Twitter. None of the fourteen people in attendance at the school board meeting supported Clark to remain employed with the district, according to Fox 4 News. […]
Authorities have discovered that Dallas pastor Eugene Keahey killed himself after starting a fire that claimed the lives of his wife and two of his daughters. Keahey, who was a pastor at Mount Zion Church of Sand Brand, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office. Keahey’s wife, Deanna, and daughter, Camryn, […]
