Area News

By Amanda Watford, Stateline October 9, 2026 A Cornell University student’s allegations of gang rape in 2024 have renewed attention on a difficult area of sexual assault law. A person can be awake, responsive and even able to move during a sexual encounter while still being so intoxicated or impaired that they cannot understand what…

ERLANGER, KY. – DAV (Disabled American Veterans) and RecruitMilitary® will co-host the Joint Base San Antonio Hiring Event, October 15 from 11:00am – 3:00pm at Schertz Civic Center. The event is free to veterans, their spouses, active duty military personnel and members of the National Guard and Reserve. More than 39 employers actively seeking the…

Crop and Weather Report – by Karn Dhingra Texas pumpkin growers are finishing an early harvest after extreme drought cut yields in the state’s primary production area by an estimated 30%-40%, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent. Extreme drought this summer cut yields in the state’s top pumpkin-producing area by an estimated…

Event attracts more than 500 students from across the state to Camp Swift October 6, 2026 – by Savanna Montgomery The 28th annual Texas Interagency Wildfire Academy will take place Oct. 6-19 at the Camp Swift National Guard Training Center near Bastrop. Each year, federal, state, local and private firefighters from across Texas and the…

By Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld, and Darius Tahir Oct 9, 2026 A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records. As that campaign has…

By Sneha Dey and Megan Menchaca, The Texas Tribune October 8, 2026 A squad of Democratic lawmakers is pushing to limit the power of state-appointed officials who step in and take over struggling school districts, ousting locally elected trustees. A commission out of Houston, where the public school district is facing the largest school takeover…

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune October 9, 2026 When a group of parents sued earlier this year over a new state law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, state Sen. Mayes Middleton was ready. “There is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state’ in our Constitution, and our schools…

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. by Zach Despart, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Co-published with The Texas Tribune October 9, 2026, 6:00 am ProPublica is…