Today a shooting that left at least six people dead at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rattled Monday’s celebrations across the U.S. and further rocked a country already awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns as well as hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The Brownwood Police Department arrested a man on a charge of possession of child pornography as the result of a sexual assault investigation. According to an email from the police department: On Sunday, March 27, officers with the Brownwood Police Department met with a mother and her teenage daughter at the Law Enforcement Center regarding a report of sexual assault.
After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed a key victory: full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. But Moscow’s seizure of the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk province came at a steep price.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans don’t expect to rely on the digital services that became commonplace during the pandemic after COVID-19 subsides, according to a new poll, even as many think it’s a good thing if those options remain available in the future.
Texans are seeing skyrocketing home electric bills this spring and summer, with many customers paying at least 50% more than they did for electric bills at this time last year. And nobody seems to know when costs will go down.
A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to the state board’s chair.
Texas students’ standardized test scores in reading and math moved closer to pre-pandemic levels after falling to levels not seen in a decade the year before, according to results released Friday by the Texas Education Agency.
This week, the Biden administration took two of its biggest steps yet to open public lands to fossil fuel development, holding its first onshore lease sales and releasing a proposed plan for offshore drilling that could open parts of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet to leasing through 2028.
Brittney Griner, a Houston native who has been detained in Russia since she was arrested more than four months ago, has made a direct appeal for help to President Joe Biden, several media outlets reported Monday.
James LeMond, Brownwood Fire Department assistant fire chief of prevention, stands in front of a building that was hit by pickup Tuesday morning at Avenue D and Highway 377 South. The pickup traveled through the building and out the other side, then crashed into a travel trailer parked at the property. It is believed the pickup’s driver had a medical event before the vehicle left the highway and hit the building, police said. One person was inside the building and was not injured. Steve Nash / Brownwood Bulletin