Texas

Firefighters extinguished the blaze in a few hours and the employee who was injured has been released from a hospital, Sherwin-Williams spokesperson Julie Young said in an email.

A Texas judge ruled Friday that the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges.

An Amarillo Police Department officer is in the hospital after a fight with a suspect led to a shot fired Friday morning near Western Street.

Attorneys for Paxton said they believe state law bars the removal of an official for conduct that occurred before their most recent election.

Police in Texas said on Wednesday afternoon an Amber Alert that was issued for a 16-year-old girl has been canceled.

The Texas case is believed to be the first brought by women who were denied abortions since the right to an abortion in the U.S. was overturned, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing them.

Advocates and others have been highly critical of the lack of air conditioning in the nation’s largest prison system, alleging temperatures that often go past 120 degrees Fahrenheit inside Texas prisons in the summer have been responsible for hundreds of inmate deaths in recent years.

In one account, a trooper that upon encountering a group of 120 migrants on June 25 — including young children and mothers nursing babies — he and another trooper were ordered to “push the people back into the water to go to Mexico.”

Angela Colmenero will step in as the state’s top lawyer on an interim basis starting Friday while Paxton awaits a trial in the state Senate that could result in his permanent removal, the office said.

The deal would channel $12 billion to reduce the school property tax rate for homeowners and business properties, increase the homestead exemption, and create a pilot program to reduce taxes on certain residential and commercial properties.