WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. August Pfluger (TX-11) and Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA- 04) introduced the Critical Minerals Classification Improvement Act to secure a domestic supply of critical minerals with bipartisan support.
TEXAS - Secession and independence have been perennial themes throughout the history of Texas, which broke away from Mexico in 1836 and was an independent republic before it was annexed by the United States in 1845. As the United States was torn apart by divisions over whether slavery could expand into the nation’s western territories, Texas in 1861 voted to secede from the Union. In the ensuing Civil War, up to 750,000 people — more than 2 percent of all Americans — died. Following the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, Texas was formally readmitted to the Union in 1870, during the Reconstruction Era.
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott and the Governor’s Commission for Women today announced the 2022 Women-Owned Business Series beginning with four weekly webinars Wednesday, August 31, through Wednesday, September 21. The webinars will feature subject-matter experts offering actionable advice for Texas women business owners and entrepreneurs on starting, growing, and sustaining a business.
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M Forest Service is now accepting grant applications for the State Fire Assistance for Mitigation – Plains Prescribed Fire Grant through Aug. 15, 2022.
This record package is presented as a public service by area law enforcement and the Runnels County Register. A person who is arrested or accused of a crime, present at a crime scene, or identified as a suspect in any printed report is not necessarily guilty of a criminal offense. Guilt or innocence must be determined in a court of law.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Multiple police officers stood in a hallway at Robb Elementary School armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of a gunman arriving at the campus, according to documents reviewed by the Austin American- Statesman, a devastating new revelation deepening questions about why police didn’t act faster to stop the shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers last month.
MILES - Karen Hoelscher taught elementary classes for 30 years in Miles, Texas, a small close-knit west Texas town of around 1,000 folks just a stone’s throw from San Angelo. During Hoelscher’s time teaching, from 1982-2013, she was also a cheerleading sponsor, UIL events sponsor, as well as being part of the Elementary school student council.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Dylan Rock drove in the goahead run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh inning and No. 5 overall seed Texas A&M beat 12th-seeded Louisville 4-3 on Saturday to win the College Station Super Regional and become the first team to earn a berth in the College World Series.
This is the third installment in what has become a series of essays which began with the question, “What in the world is going on?” In these we have tried to come to grips with the root of problems that seem now to typify modern America, and have especially focused on school shootings and other events in which the intent is mass murder followed by suicide.
With the recent triple-digit temperature we have been experiencing, we find ourselves looking for the coolest spot to chill out. Runnels County has several great places to take a dip, relax in the shade or even catch an outdoor movie.