Texas sets new hate crimes record, DPS data show

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Texas Pipeline operators release or flare tons of gas during June heatwave

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Actor Jeff Hiller talks growing up in San Antonio and his HBO series Somebody Somewhere

When actor and San Antonio native Jeff Hiller enrolled in Texas Lutheran University (TLU) in 1994, his plan was to become a pastor. “I think one of the main reasons I wanted to be a pastor is because I knew I would have a built-in audience once a week,” Hiller, 47 and a Churchill High School grad, j

Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds

Close to 10,000 additional babies were born over a nine-month period after Texas banned most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, a new analysis from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows.  This is the first analysis of live birth rates since the law, known as Senate Bill 8,