Mortgage rates fell this week for the first time since late August, easing some of the pressure on prospective homebuyers facing higher borrowing costs on home loans. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 7.32% from 7.40% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One yea...
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Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. Quality control measures implemented on programs receiving federal Child Care Services have put an even d...
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Ronald Haskell’s capital murder conviction and death sentence Thursday, rejecting seven claims he raised in his automatic appeal. In its Oct. 22 opinion, the state’s highest court for criminal cases found no reversible error in Haskell’s...
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in a minor crash in Harris County on Thursday morning while attempting to apprehend a man, officials say....
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Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, one of the state's most influential Democrats, was charged Thursday in connection with an alleged role leading a criminal enterprise that acquired and distributed large quantities of marijuana and laundered the proceeds, according to federal a...
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A voter’s unexpected experience during early voting prompted questions about potential delays at the polls. But Fort Bend County election officials say the issue stemmed from a misunderstanding of voting procedures, not an error in the voter’s registration. Kathryn Berardo, who s...
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Four flight attendants were injured, and dozens of passengers were shaken up when a United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles encountered severe turbulence....
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Polls show the West Austin Democrat is neck-and-neck with the incumbent Republican.
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Two people were killed when a fire tore through a Mississippi senior living center that was home to more than 100 residents, Clinton Mayor Will Purdie said Thursday. “It’s with a heavy heart that I share with you that two residents lost their lives in that fire,” Purdie said doin...
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Police say there is "indication that revenge played some role" in the alleged shooting plot against a Southern California high school by two 15-year-old girls, and that "there was a list with individuals' names on it."...
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The sheriff posted on social media Thursday morning that at least one person had been taken to the hospital, but details are limited at this time.
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Braden Peters is charged with giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, Massachusetts....
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Actor and comedian Russell Brand is facing allegations of rape and sexual assault in a London trial.
