A favorite toy or treat can become dangerous in an instant if it gets lodged in your pet’s airway.   Because choking is a terrifying emergency for pets and their owners, Dr. Christine Rutter, a clinical associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, shares what every pet owner and…

PLANO, Texas – A Dallas drug dealer has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in the Eastern District of Texas in connection with an overdose death, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.   Dauerashawn Carr, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine and…

By Jayme Lozano Carver, The Texas Tribune August 6, 2026 LUBBOCK — The Davis Mountain Clinic is not your typical rural medical clinic. It doesn’t have windows or a big waiting room, and there aren’t teams of physicians and nurses waiting on patients. Instead, there’s one nurse, Carol Brewer, who connects patients to psychologists and…

By Hien An Ngo, The Texas Tribune August 7, 2026 Texas’s candidates in this year’s U.S. Senate race remain neck and neck, according to recent polling. After the runoff election on May 26, Democratic nominee James Talarico has performed slightly better than Ken Paxton. Notably, Talarico has enjoyed larger leads in recent polling than Democrat…

By Gabby Birenbaum, The Texas Tribune August 7, 2026 WASHINGTON — Rep. Joaquin Castro has made seven visits to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, a sleepy town southwest of his San Antonio district, since the Trump administration reopened it last year. He’s met immigrants there who’ve garnered national attention and outcry, from…

News publishers across the country are struggling with a uniquely modern problem – their webpages are being overrun with bots. Content that is written for human readers is being consumed by millions of these automated crawlers that comb the Internet and often go out of their way to disguise their identity and steal content. These…

TYLER, TX – August 7,  2026 – Better Business Bureau East Texas (BBB) is excited to announce the return of one of its most anticipated networking events of the year – the 5th Annual Battle of the Businesses Cornhole Tournament. The event will take place on Friday, September 25, 2026, at Black Hawk Creek Grill…

PLANO, Texas – An illegal alien has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison as part of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.   Jose Romero-Sanchez, 25, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Statement on proposed Head Start deregulation from Steven Barnett, the founder and senior director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University:   “The Trump Administration’s proposal to remove 80% of Head Start regulations could undermine the program’s ability to fulfill its purpose of improving the school readiness…