Texas father shoots, kills intruder holding 2 children at gunpoint

Powerful gun lobby the National Rifle Association of America has filed for bankruptcy in the Northern District of Texas where it will reincorporate as a nonprofit, leaving New York State, where it was founded in 1871.

The one-time Texas mayoral candidate who bragged about tearing down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office door during last week’s storming of the US Capitol was all smiles following her court appearance Wednesday. Jenny Cudd was pictured beaming from ear to ear as she left a Midland courthouse, where she appeared before US Magistrate Judge Ronald Griffin on charges of entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct, the Midland Reporter-Telegram reported.

Texas became the second state to surpass the 2 million mark this week as the region experiences record-high coronavirus numbers in the month of January.The Lone Star State has now seen 2,040,751 confirmed cases of the virus since the pandemic started nearly a year ago, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been arrested and charged in the murder of the woman's 8-year-old son. The Irving Police Department arrested Leslie Curtis, 29, and her boyfriend Codie McCrory, 30, on Friday after they were dispatched to an unconscious person call and found the boy, Delmor Best-Curtis, lying on a bed "unresponsive" at the Magnuson Hotel, authorities said in a press release.

Chuck Norris would never storm the Capitol.

President Trump on Tuesday will travel to Texas to visit the wall at the southern border, and tout his administration’s accomplishment in building more than 450 miles since he took office – an attempt to move attention away from the controversy related to last week’s riot in the Capitol.

A winter wonderland! James Van Der Beek’s five kids adorably enjoyed a snow day with their dad on Sunday, January 10.

Some parts of Texas experienced a rare heavy snowfall over the weekend as a winter storm swept through the region. Snow falling across the region forced some school and government office closures and fostered some play time for adults and children cooped up in the pandemic.

The storm that brought Texas snow this weekend is now moving into the Mississippi Valley. Winter storm warnings are still up for parts of East Texas through parts of Louisiana and Mississippi with temperatures 20-25 degrees below average in some cities. "Bring your pets inside!" tweeted the National Weather Service Brownsville on Sunday night.

The pressure was on when directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set about making Boys State, their film documenting an annual exercise in Texas that gives high school boys the chance to practice democracy in action.

A man suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend in front of their 3-year-old daughter in California last week killed himself in Texas as authorities were closing in, investigators said Saturday. Herbert Nixon Flores, 46, shot himself with a handgun after realizing police cars were following him as he drove toward Dallas, the Irving Police Department said in a statement.

A convicted man from Texas has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to fraudulently obtain free Spirit Airlines flights for himself and others, as well as making fake employee identification badges in order to get the flights, prosecutors said. The defendant, identified as Hubbard Bell, 32, from Houston, had previously worked for Mesa Airlines, which gives its employees free tickets for Spirit Airlines flights as a perk.

Goosehead Insurance associate general counsel, Paul Davis, was terminated after a live-streamed video shared to social media showed the Texas lawyer's participation in Wednesday’s breach of the U.S. Capitol.

Two high-profile Texas Democrats want the Lone Star State’s Republican Sen.Ted Cruz to step down after his objection to the 2020 presidential election results on the Senate floor Wednesday night and have blamed him for the chaos on Capitol Hill. "Someone on the Senate floor should ask for @SenTedCruz’s resignation tonight," tweeted Rep.

A Texas boy, 15, was charged with murder Sunday after surveillance video showed him beating his mother to death, police say. The boy's father called police to the family's home in McKinney, Texas, just before 1 a.m.

Three Harris County sheriff’s deputies were injured and a woman was killed in a shooting early Sunday morning outside a nightclub in Houston, authorities said. The shooting unfolded around 2:20 a.m.

A Harris County deputy was killed in a motorcycle crash on Saturday after leading a funeral procession, authorities said.  Sgt. Bruce Watson had been with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for 20 years.The sheriff’s office said Watson had just finished on off-duty job leading a funeral procession when his motorcycle was struck by a vehicle.

A local pastor has been killed and two others have been injured after a shooting at Starrville Methodist Church in East Texas, according to the Smith County Sheriff's Office. Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said during a news conference that the confrontation occurred around 9:30 a.m.

Chris Harrison taking his final bow in Bachelor Nation? Some fans think so.Rumors swirled around the longtime reality TV host, 49, on Tuesday, December 29, after The New York Post’s Page Six reported that he’s moving to Austin, Texas.