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Fritch Fire Chief Zeb Smith died Tuesday morning while battling a structure fire.
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The United States Supreme Court has put on hold a federal appeals court decision that would have allowed Texas’ controversial immigration-enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, to go into effect as early as this weekend. The Supreme Court’s decision means the law is on hold until at least the middle of next week.
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Two people and tens of thousands of cattle have died in the largest wildfire in state history. As firefights continue battling the Smokehouse Creek fire, residents of towns it blazed through are figuring out what's next.
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Firefighting crews continue to battle the Smokehouse Creek fire in Hutchinson County. The wildfire has affected more than 500,000 acres so far, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
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The Texas Newsroom received hundreds of pages of documents that pull back the curtain on last year's historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Primary season in Texas doesn’t neatly wrap up after March 5. For races with a slew of candidates to choose from, it may take a runoff election to determine who ends up on the ballot in November.
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The state of Texas has spent more than $845,000 flying migrants to New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Texas could see thousands of new citizens cast ballots in this year’s November election as the number of immigrants eligible for citizenship in the state nears 800,000.
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Paxton, a Republican who’s been under indictment for securities fraud since 2015, is scheduled to face a jury in April.
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The legislation is scheduled to go into effect March 5 and also empowers local judges to order a migrant to return to Mexico. Opponents say the law isn’t just discriminatory — it also interferes with the federal government’s efforts to secure the border.
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More recently, the party has been engulfed in controversy and infighting — from spats over Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment to ties to white supremacists.
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As a convoy travels throughout Texas to protest President Biden’s immigration policies, Texas Democrats joined human rights experts and advocates on Thursday to push back on harsh border rhetoric.