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What Texas can learn from crisis mental health care in Arizona
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After a call for police assistance with a mentally ill man at a Tucson gas station turned deadly, resulting in the deaths of the responding sheriff’s deputy, the man, and a cab driver who stopped to assist, local leaders began work in 2005 on a better way to respond to people in crisis.
The Texas DPS Will No Longer Accept Court Orders To Change Gender Markers
LGBTQ advocacy and civil rights organizations have found that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was behind the Texas Department of Public Safety’s recent policy change that blocks transgender Texans from altering their gender markers on state-issued IDs and driver’s licenses. The change, which effectively halts the department from accepting court...
WATCH: Pep Rallies In Texas Are Simply Something Else
High school sports in Texas are truly a spectacle aren't they?. Everything is bigger here in the Lone Star State, and the passion for sports here is second to none. We've all seen a packed stadium for a highly anticipated matchup of two great teams haven't we? There's even been some classic calls posted to the internet of some of the games.
Texas Panhandle set to gain 75-bed mental health facility with land lease agreement
State officials gathered Tuesday to celebrate a significant milestone in the development of mental health care infrastructure in the Texas Panhandle. State Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, announced the completion of a crucial land lease agreement between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) and the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS). The deal will facilitate the construction of the 75-bed Panhandle State Hospital, a facility long needed in the region to address mental health care shortages. “This...
Underage Drinkers in Texas Have More Rights Than You Think
Football season has hit Texas like a blustery "blue norther" sweeping in from the panhandle. The High School Season got underway with games in Dallas, Houston, Beaumont, Austin, and just about every other community in the state last weekend. Do you need some scores? Here you go. Then, we start...
Top Universities in Texas See Exam Success with AI Essay Detector Tools at UT, SMU, and UTD
Even in a modern academic setting, computers and calculators are feared as machines that reduce a student’s ability to perform menial tasks without them. Never mind the fact that computers, calculators, and other technical achievements are available in anyone’s pocket. Every tool that threatens to change the status quo is heralded as a step toward human obsolescence, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Circle K offering up huge discounts on gas across Texas | What you need to know
AUSTIN, Texas — Texans looking to fill up their vehicles ahead of their Labor Day road trip are in luck!. As part of a "fuel day," Circle K convenience stores are offering huge discounts on gas prices ahead of the holiday weekend – but only for a limited time.
Abbott: 1 million people purged from voter rolls since 2021
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Texas has removed more than 1 million people from the state’s voter rolls since Senate Bill 1 went into effect in 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news release issued on Tuesday, Aug. 27. The people who have been removed have moved out of state, are dead, or are […]
Texans Need to Start Putting These Stickers on their Mailbox
The United States Postal Service has implemented a new dog bite prevention program to protect USPS employees. Called the Paws Program, the program was rolled out in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and the western region of New York, among other areas, in June. And now, I think that Texans need to start doing this as well!
Urgent Recall For Hazardous Chicken Nuggets Now Issued In Texas
Texas may be the beef state, but parents everywhere know that chicken nuggets are the guaranteed winner when it comes to filling the bellies of their kids especially if you are short on time. Even when you are a parent like me that has more than one kid that does not exactly jump up and down for meat entrees, you can still convince your more vegetarian trending children to gobble down some chicken nuggets.
Dream Comes True: Sick Girl From Texas Gets Taylor Swift Surprise!
A 10-year-old girl in Texas named Kennedy Coke has been fighting cancer since she was two. And she's been a Taylor Swift fan just as long. So random people online are sending her to go see Taylor in concert for the first time. Here's what they said on the GoFundMe...
Texas Fisherman Catches Potentially Record Breaking Shark
A massive 11-foot-long mako shark, weighing over 600 kilograms, may be a new world record catch—hauled in by Jason Johnston from Mesquite, Texas, off the coast of southern California. Johnston, an experienced angler, was on a charter fishing trip near Huntington Beach on Monday when he hooked the giant...
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