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☆ Driver Is Charged in Deadly Texas Crash Outside Shelter Housing Migrants
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A vehicle struck a group of people in Brownsville, Texas, killing at least eight and injuring others. Photo: Michael Gonzalez/Associated PressA 34-year-old man was charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault after the vehicle he was allegedly driving plowed into a group of people Sunday in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight and injuring at least 10 near a homeless shelter housing migrants, authorities said. George Alvarez faces eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda said Monday. His bail was set at $3.6 million.
☆ Officials Probe Texas Mall Shooter’s Possible Link to White Supremacy
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Dan Frosch | Sadie Gurman | Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A man killed eight people with an AR-15 style rifle in a mass shooting Saturday at the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Texas, officials said. Photo: WFAA/Associated PressAuthorities are investigating a Texas shooter’s possible links to white supremacist ideology, according to law-enforcement officials with knowledge of the probe, following a killing spree at a suburban Dallas mall on Saturday. The gunman was identified as Mauricio Garcia, 33 years old, the officials said. He is accused of killing eight people and injuring seven others after opening fire at Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, before being shot dead by a police officer. He used an AR-15-style rifle in the attack and multiple other firearms were found at the scene, according to the officials.
☆ Oklahoma County Commissioner Accused of Making Threatening Comments Resigns
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Protesters in Idabel, Okla., demanding the resignations of several McCurtain County officials earlier this week. Photo: Christopher Bryan/Southwest Ledger/Associated PressA county commissioner in southeast Oklahoma has resigned after being named by the local newspaper as one of several officials on a recording allegedly discussing killing two reporters and lynching Black people, Gov. Kevin Stitt ’s office said Wednesday. Carly Atchison, a spokeswoman for Mr. Stitt, said the governor’s office had received a handwritten resignation letter from McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings .
☆ This Invasive Species Is Wreaking Havoc in American Wetlands
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( - A Warning On The Virginia Department Of Wildlife Resources Website | Adolfo Flores | Erin Ailworth | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A team from the U.S. Department of Agriculture led the effort in Maryland, covering nearly half a million acres of land and marsh hunting for the invasive rodent. They worked in a grid to systematically trap and remove nutria before moving on to the next area. Yann Schreiber/AFP/Getty
☆ Be on the Lookout for Rodents of Unusual Size With Orange Teeth
  + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Adolfo Flores | Erin Ailworth | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Arkansas City Surveys Tornado’s Wreckage After Direct Hit
  + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Adolfo Flores | Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WYNNE, Ark.—Mike Ellis saw one tornado in Little Rock from his father’s ninth-floor hospital room and worried about his mom, who uses a walker and was home alone in Wynne, so he rushed to her house Friday in time for a second tornado. He and his 18-year-old son had barely pulled into the driveway when the sirens started to go off. Mr. Ellis helped his mother into a bathroom closet before grabbing a mattress to shield his son and himself as they took cover in a hallway. In a few minutes the tornado was over them.
☆ Arkansas Town Surveys Tornado’s Wreckage After Direct Hit
  + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Adolfo Flores | Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WYNNE, Ark.—As Danielle Russell drove back into her neighborhood Friday night after a tornado tore through this small city, she said she saw a white shape in the dark and hoped it wasn’t the roof of her house. Moments later she pulled up and saw that powerful winds had peeled off much of a metal layer of her roof, which now hung down, covering the house’s front. The damage forced Ms. Russell, 38 years old, to spend Friday night with her two children in their car, worried that the house wasn’t safe.
☆ Storm System Kills at Least 22 People Across Central U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—A powerful storm system barreled across the central U.S. Friday, killing at least 22 people and unleashing reports of at least 69 tornadoes recorded across at least eight states. Fueled by a series of so-called supercells, the rotating thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, the system battered homes, downed trees and power lines and flipped cars and RV campers, with some landing in the Mississippi River.
☆ Thousands Attend Trump Rally in Waco, Texas, as Potential Indictment Looms
  + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Adolfo Flores | Alex Leary | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Former President Donald Trump arrived at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Saturday to board a flight to the rally in Waco, Texas. WACO, Texas—Thousands of people showed up to rally for Donald Trump as he faces a potential indictment in New York, many criticizing the case against him as politically motivated and illustrating the former president’s hold on the GOP electorate as he accelerates his 2024 White House comeback bid. “If he’s arrested I think people will stand behind him even tighter,” said B.J. Apgar, 47 years old, who showed up hours ahead of the Saturday evening event in this central Texas city—Mr. Trump’s first traditional rally since launching his campaign in November.
☆ Federal Judge to Hear Abortion Pill Arguments in Texas Case
  + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Liz Essley Whyte | Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
AMARILLO, Texas—A federal judge is set to hear arguments Wednesday on whether to block sales of a medication used in more than half of the abortions in the U.S., the first public hearing in a case that has drawn national attention. Antiabortion medical groups and individual physicians filed a lawsuit in November, arguing that the Food and Drug Administration exceeded its authority when it approved the sale of the abortion-inducing pill known as mifepristone under a process meant for treatments of serious or life-threatening illnesses. The judge is now weighing whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking sales of the pill while litigation continues.
☆ States Look to Ease Some Child-Labor Laws Amid Tight Market
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Adolfo Flores | Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed off on a law loosening child-labor restrictions in the state. A new Arkansas law that makes it easier for minors as young as 14 to work without a permit is part of a nationwide effort by states to loosen child-labor restrictions. For a child to receive the permit, a parent or guardian also had to sign off. Employers had to tell the state how many days and hours the minor was going to be working.
☆ Recreational Marijuana Use to Be Decided by Oklahoma Voters
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Voters in Oklahoma are set to decide on Tuesday whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use, nearly five years after a decision to allow large-scale cultivation of the drug turned the state into a leading source of black-market weed. If State Question 820 passes, adults over 21 would be legally allowed to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and grow up to six mature cannabis plants. The measure would also allow those convicted of low-level marijuana offenses to have their records expunged.
☆ Oklahoma Voters Strike Down Recreational Marijuana
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Voters in Oklahoma Tuesday rejected a bid to legalize marijuana for recreational use, according to the Associated Press, nearly five years after a decision to allow large-scale cultivation of the drug in the state turned it into a leading source of black-market weed. Roughly 62% of voters said “no” to State Question 820, with more than 99% of precincts reporting, according to the Oklahoma State Election Board’s unofficial results.
☆ Southern Baptists Expel Saddleback Church Over Female Pastor
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Saddleback Church lead Pastor Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie Wood, meet with a congregant in Lake Forest, Calif. The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday expelled Saddleback Church, the California megachurch founded by influential evangelical pastor Rick Warren, and four other churches from the denomination because they had female pastors. The decision to remove or “disfellowship” the churches came after the convention’s executive committee determined that the five churches were “not in friendly cooperation” with the denomination, said Jared Wellman, executive committee chairman, in a statement.
☆ El Paso Shooting Came After ‘Random’ Confrontation, Police Chief Says
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Elizabeth Findell | Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The shooting that killed one and injured three at an El Paso, Texas, mall Wednesday evening, steps from the Walmart where an attacker killed 23 people in 2019, was the result of a random confrontation between two groups who didn’t know each other, the city’s police chief said. “During the confrontation, a physical altercation took place,” Interim Police Chief Peter Pacillas said during a press conference Thursday afternoon. “During that fight…one person produced a handgun and shots were fired.”
☆ Sarah Huckabee Sanders Takes Early Turn on National Stage
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ U.S. Won’t Seek Death Penalty in El Paso Walmart Shooting
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Justice Department won’t seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing 23 people in 2019 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, federal prosecutors said in a Tuesday court filing. Patrick Crusius faces 90 federal charges for his alleged role in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history; 45 of the charges have been deemed hate crimes, or crimes motivated by racial, religious, national origin, sexual, gender or disability bias. Mr. Crusius, 21 years old at the time, is accused of traveling to the Texas border city to target Latinos in the attack. Nearly two dozen people were injured in the shooting.
☆ California Storms Ease, but Flood Fears Persist
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
California was hit again by rain and snow Monday as the state moved toward what forecasters said would be the end of a series of storms that have battered it since Christmas. The nine storms known as atmospheric rivers—flowing columns of condensed water vapor in the atmosphere that produce significant precipitation—have killed at least 19 people, flooded communities, shut down highways and cut power to tens of thousands of homes. The storms and accompanying damage have been more intense in the north and middle regions of the state than in the south.
☆ As California Storms Approach End, Flood Fears Remain
  + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Central California remained under a flood watch Monday as the last in a series of major storms that have battered the state since Christmas moved through, according to forecasters. Monday’s storm could bring heavy rain, strong winds and possible flooding in some areas before moving into the U.S. Southwest, said the National Weather Service.
☆ Deer Hunting Violation Leads to Legal Skirmish Between Oklahoma, Native Tribes
  + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Jimmy Ward, a member of the Osage Nation, was ticketed for shooting at a decoy white-tailed deer out of season. What started as a simple hunting violation turned into an ordeal that thrust Jimmy Ward into the middle of a legal battle between the state of Oklahoma and Native Americans. Mr. Ward, a member of the Osage Nation, was caught shooting at a decoy white-tailed deer set out by game officials to nab out-of-season hunters in November 2021. He managed to get four misdemeanor hunting violation charges against him in Carter County District Court dismissed by citing a landmark 2020 Supreme Court ruling that gave criminal jurisdiction for crimes committed by Native Americans on reservations to the federal or tribal governments.
☆ Missouri Executes Transgender Inmate, a First in the U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Missouri carried out the first known execution of a transgender person in the U.S. after Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied Amber McLaughlin ’s clemency petition. Ms. McLaughlin was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:51 p.m. on Tuesday at the Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. She was found guilty in the 2003 murder of her ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther .
☆ Missouri Set to Execute Transgender Inmate, a First in the U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Amber McLaughlin is set to be killed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Missouri is set to carry out the first known execution of a transgender person in the U.S. after Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied Amber McLaughlin ‘s clemency petition. Ms. McLaughlin is set to be killed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. She was found guilty in the 2003 murder of her ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther .
☆ Oklahoma Has Become a Top Source of Black-Market Weed
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
COYLE, Okla.—Finding marijuana crops in Oklahoma these days is easy, said Logan County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Tillman, as he stared at rows of cannabis greenhouses surrounded by fields of red-dirt farmland. Figuring out if they are legal—well, that is another matter. “It’s not always clear what we should be looking for,” Deputy Tillman said.
☆ Austin Police Release Footage of Officer’s Fatal Shooting of Local Entrepreneur
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Austin Police Department released home-security footage that showed Raj Moonesinghe outside his home the night he was killed last month. The Austin Police Department released body camera and home security footage Thursday of an officer’s fatal shooting of a 33-year-old entrepreneur, a killing the man’s family has called unjustified. Raj Moonesinghe was killed Nov. 15 by police responding to a 911 call reporting an armed man walking around outside a home. In Ring camera footage, Mr. Moonesinghe is seen on the front porch of the home, which was his, holding a rifle. At one point he points the weapon toward the inside of the home and says, “Yeah you want this?” and seconds later “Are you sure?” before firing twice into the home as a police officer pulls up.
☆ Embattled El Paso District Attorney Yvonne Rosales Resigns
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Adolfo Flores | Elizabeth Findell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Yvonne Rosales, the district attorney in charge of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting case in El Paso County, Texas, has resigned. Yvonne Rosales, the El Paso County, Texas, district attorney, resigned Monday amid allegations of mishandling cases and growing efforts to remove her from office. Ms. Rosales was accused of incompetence and misconduct in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting as well as inaction on cases, according to an amended petition for her removal filed by El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal.
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