4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (791+ words) Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (663+ words) By SEUNG MIN KIM and THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press So when he travels to the state on Friday for his first post-State of the Uniontrip, where he plans to promote his energy and economic policies, Trump will have all three…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (525+ words) Two brothers from Texas held a Grant family hostage at gunpoint for nine hours, forced the father to drive to the family cabin in Jacobson, Minn. , and then stole $36, 000 in cryptocurrency from the man, according to court documents. Isiah Angelo…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (221+ words) ARLINGTON, Texas" " Zebby Matthews allowed his only run on a leadoff homer while pitching seven innings for the Minnesota Twins in a 4-1 win Tuesday night over the Texas Rangers, who lost their eighth game in a row and were eliminated…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1035+ words) By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and NADIA LATHAN, Associated Press Gonzalez said he is not worried. Those Democratic voters will have to end up in one of the Republican districts that flank Gonzalez's current one, making those districts more competitive " possibly enough…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (344+ words) HOUSTON " There was a decent chance that Joe Ryan and Hunter Brown, Saturday's starters, would provide a pitcher's duel. But Brandon Walter, making just his third-career start and Simeon Woods Richardson, recently recalled from Triple-A? Well, that was a little…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (378+ words) David Powers, also is known as David Robekevich, was charged with beating and raping a Lake Elmo woman while holding her against her will. A Minnesota man who cut off his GPS tracker and fled before his criminal sexual conduct…...