No. 9 Texas looks to avoid upset vs. Baylor after big win
Baylor (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) at No. 9 Texas (5-1, 3-0) 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) Line: Texas by 14. Series record: Texas leads 76-26-4 WHAT’S AT STAKE? Texas can get bowl-eligible with a win. That hasn’t happened for the Longhorns in mid-October since 2009. A Baylor win would knock the air out of Texas’ surge…
Read MoreWest Texas an ‘extraction colony’ as oil, gas exports surge
By KIAH COLLIER of THE TEXAS TRIBUNE and JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS and RACHEL LEVEN of the CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY, The Texas Tribune and the Center for Public Integrity MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Drilling booms have come and gone in this oil town for nearly a century. But the frenzy gripping it now is different.…
Read MoreBorder officials alarmed by migrants abandoned in the desert
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Smugglers in recent weeks have been abandoning large groups of Guatemalan and other Central American migrants in Arizona’s harsh cactus-studded Sonoran Desert near the border with Mexico, alarming Border Patrol officials who say the trend is putting hundreds of children at risk. Collectively, more than 1,400 migrants…
Read MoreWHAT’S HAPPENING: Rescues, damage in Florida after hurricane
MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s Panhandle is littered with evidence that Hurricane Michael is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the mainland United States. Roofs and awnings are peeled from buildings, pieces of homes are scattered amid snapped trees and downed power lines, chunks of beaches are washed away. Michael thrashed Georgia as…
Read MoreUS, Russian astronauts safe after emergency landing
By DMITRY LOVETSKY, Associated Press BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A booster rocket failed less than two minutes after launching an American and a Russian toward the International Space Station on Thursday, forcing their emergency — but safe — landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan. It was the latest in a recent series of failures for…
Read MoreWorld War 2 airborne demonstration coming to Frederick
The WWII Airborne Demonstration Team prepares for their upcoming trip to Normandy, France, by hosting FIVE WWII aircraft, including “That’s All, Brother”, the lead aircraft into the WWII D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The ADT will hold a formation flying clinic at their headquarters, Frederick Army Air Field, to develop the skills of the…
Read MoreTexas receives $2.6 million for public health response to opioid epidemic
The Texas Department of State Health Services has received $2.66 million to expand the state’s public health response to opioids over the next year. The grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help local health departments and health care providers prevent overdose deaths, enhance the available data on opioid use in Texas,…
Read MoreFederal prisoner dies in shooting at west Texas hospital
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a federal prisoner has died after what a west Texas hospital says was a shooting inside the hospital. The marshals service says in a news release that the prisoner died just before 6 p.m. Monday at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, about 330 miles (531 kilometers)…
Read MoreSearch resumes for 4 people missing in west Texas flooding
JUNCTION, Texas (AP) — Authorities have resumed their search for four people missing since a recreational vehicle park was overrun by raging floodwaters in west Texas. Kimble County Sheriff Hilario Cantu says crews were searching Wednesday morning for the three men and one woman along the South Llano River in Junction, a town about 140…
Read MoreSupercharged overnight, Hurricane Michael menaces Florida
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Gaining frightening fury overnight, Hurricane Michael closed in Wednesday on the Florida Panhandle with potentially catastrophic winds of 145 mph, the most powerful storm on record ever to menace the stretch of fishing towns, military bases and spring-break beaches. With more than 375,000 people up…
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