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By Ellie Ashby, The Texas Tribune July 22, 2026 One year after volunteer firefighter Razor Dobbs scoured the Texas Hill Country for victims of a devastating early morning flood, he stood before an elderly couple reluctant to evacuate their Center Point-area home as rain pounded and thunder crashed. It was around 3 a.m. Thursday, and…

By Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune July 22, 2026 Texas spent billions recruiting scientists from around the world to turn the state into a cancer-research powerhouse. Now, nearly six months after Gov. Greg Abbott restricted public institutions’ use of the H-1B visa program, cancer advocates and immigration attorneys warn the policy could undercut that strategy.…

By Uriel J. García, Lomi Kriel and Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune July 21, 2026 Two passengers in a van when an immigration agent fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo earlier this month said that two unmarked vehicles struck them from behind and the side before they stopped, according to their written statements filed in…

SCENIC ROUTE TIFFANY HOFELDT Take Me Back to Bandera Where do you take someone who’s about to leave Texas for a whole other country? Faced with this question recently, as two dear friends prepared to move to France, a group of us decided there was no place more apt than Bandera, the Cowboy Capital of…

View Online Army Contracting Support Enables Marine Operations Along Southern Border July 21, 2026 | By U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command Contracting officers assigned to the U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command Southern Border Contract Team provided contract support to Marines assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment supporting Operation…

DENTON, Texas – FEMA announced the approval of more than $76.3 million in post-disaster funding for Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program projects in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. These programs empower states, local communities, and territories to recover to rebuild more resilient, safer communities and protect infrastructure from future events. With…

John Whitehead’s Commentary By John & Nisha Whitehead July 22, 2026 “If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation and we will kill you.”— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Having burned through billions of dollars and depleted critical munitions stockpiles, the Pentagon…

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO, B-ROLL AND PHOTOS   HALLSVILLE, Texas (July 21, 2026) – Construction of Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s (SWEPCO) new 450-megawatt natural gas generation plant reached a significant milestone as massive power generation equipment arrived at the project site this week, marking visible progress in the transformation of the former Pirkey Power Plant…

TYLER, Texas – A Tyler man previously convicted of a child pornography violation, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.   John Matthew Emerson, 42, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on July 21, 2026, before U.S. Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell.  …

July 21, 2026 As the flesh-eating parasite edges back into the United States, public health experts explain who is most at risk and what safety habits can prevent transmission By SADDIE SMITH for VITAL RECORD   BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Reports of the New World screwworm returning to the United States have raised concern. Driven northward from Central…