A gunman opened fire at a crowded mall outside Dallas on Saturday, killing at least eight people and injuring at least seven before a police officer killed him, the authorities said, turning a busy afternoon of shopping into a chaotic and tragic scene. At a news conference Saturday night, Brian E. Harvey, the chief of…
Officials said he had been taken into custody without incident by a team that included officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Texas Department of Public Safety and a tactical unit from the Border Patrol. The killings occurred late Friday. Officials said Mr. Oropesa had been firing a gun that night in his front yard…
A Texas gunman who was being sought in connection with the fatal shooting of five people on Friday night after a neighbor asked him to stop firing his weapon remained at large and was considered to be armed and dangerous, the authorities said on Sunday. The gunman, Francisco Oropesa, 38, refused a request by the…
CLEVELAND, Texas — The loud, rapid-fire bangs from a gun were keeping Wilson Garcia’s baby awake on Friday night, so he asked the neighbor who was shooting if he could stop. The authorities said the neighbor, Francisco Oropeza, 38, who had been drinking, said no. His yard, he said, his rules. Mr. Garcia warned that…
In what could be a plot from an episode of “The X-Files,” the authorities are investigating the mysterious deaths in three Texas counties of six cattle that were found with their tongues missing. Ranchers found the mutilated remains of a 6-year-old longhorn-cross cow on their property, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook Wednesday.…
A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, an unprecedented order that — if it stands through court challenges — could make it harder for patients to get abortions in states where abortion is legal, not just in those trying to…
The Texas Observer, a small but deep blue bastion of liberal opinion and muckraking journalism in the most populous red state, said this week that its nonprofit owner planned to lay off its staff and stop publication on Friday after 68 years. But The Observer’s former and current staff members are fighting the shutdown and…
WACO, Texas — In the last 28 months, former President Donald J. Trump has been voted out of the White House, impeached for his role in the Capitol riot and criticized for marching many of his fellow Republicans off an electoral cliff in the 2022 midterms with his drumbeat of election-fraud lies. He dined at…
A regional outbreak of severe thunderstorms, with damaging gusts of up to 75 miles per hour, hail as large as billiard balls or larger, and several tornadoes — including some that could be “intense” — is expected Thursday into Friday across a swath of the country from Texas to Tennessee, forecasters warned. Over 30 million…
DENTON, Tex. — Last year Tamara Nelson was a pregnant mother of three, denied an abortion under Texas’s restrictive laws. More recently, she told fund-raising gala attendees how Blue Haven Ranch, a faith-based, anti-abortion nonprofit, supported her when no one else would. “It really does take a community to help you with your kids and…