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Gov. Greg Abbott wants teachers convicted of such misconduct with a student to face 10-year minimums in prison sentences with no parole. -
Beatty: Trump’s endorsement pivotal to Masterson’s primary victory -
An Alaskan surrogate has traveled to Texas for legal protection after a California couple has refused treatment for a severe heart condition. -
Of the seven races a Democratic campaigning organization has targeted to hold or flip in Kansas, six are in the Kansas City area. -
A surrogate who went to Texas after a dispute with a California couple over treating a severe birth defect has given birth a day after a judge in Texas ordered a hospital to provide life-sustaining care. The surrogate mother, McKenna West, alleges in legal filings that the California couple for whom she was carrying the child pressured her to get an abortion after learning the fetus had a severe heart defect.
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This week we take a look back from the Amarillo Symphony's extraordinary 2025–2026 season as we look forward to the orchestra's upcoming season opening next month! -
We're talking crossbows this week! Luke has been a bowhunter for much of his adult life, and in this new episode, he discusses the many advantages of adding a quality crossbow to your hunting equipment. -
Sometimes it’s hard to know whether you should trim back your plants, or otherwise prepare for the colder weather as fall approaches. This week, we’ll talk about which plants can withstand this maintenance, and when to maybe just…hold off. -
jonathan c. wheeler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsI’m Matt Kliewer, once from Cimarron, Kansas, now from Austin, Texas, coming to you from San Diego, California. In Nick Hunt’s introduction to Lyall Watson’s Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind, Hunt argues that in this book “[a]ll the winds of the world are inside. If you open it, you will be blown to places you never expected.”
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