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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 75 Seven months have passed since the disappearance of Donna Kay Cloud , 19, of Splendora. Authorities say they have exhausted their leads but are continuing to follow new information as it is reported. "We are doing everything we can," said Lt. Scott Spencer , spokesperson for the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. "We have no new information and have nothing to suggest she has been harmed. The detective has checked into every aspect of the case but has had … [Read more...] about Missing Splendora woman’s father says unsolved case is ‘tearing my life apart’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albert Pujols seemed like a long shot in early August to reach 700 home runs, still more than a dozen swings from the hallowed mark and his power stroke all but gone. Or so it appeared. Now showing the pop of his youth in the final weeks of his career, the 42-year-old slugger got there with two long shots. Pujols hit his 700th home run, connecting for his second drive of the game and becoming the fourth player in major league history to make it to the milestone as the St. Louis Cardinals routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-0 Friday night. Pujols joined Barry Bonds (762 homers), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) in one of baseball’s most exclusive clubs. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 “Don’t get me wrong, I know where my places stand in this game, but since Day One when I made my debut, I was never about numbers, never about chasing … [Read more...] about Barry Bonds gets some new company in the 700 Home Run Club

Republican state Sen. Robert Nichols of Jacksonville said Friday that he’d support a change to Texas’ abortion laws to allow victims of rape to legally obtain the procedure. “If I get a chance to vote for an exception to rape, I will vote yes,” the East Texas senator said during a panel of Republican lawmakers at the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival. “I think instead of us telling women what to do, we should show our support for women of this state.” Nichols is one of the first anti-abortion lawmakers to say he would support loosening the abortion laws when lawmakers meet in January. Texas has one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, which went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the landmark case that established the legal right to an abortion. Under Texas law, abortions are prohibited in almost all cases, including rape and incest, and are allowed only to save the life of the pregnant person. Texas is competing against private … [Read more...] about Republican Texas senator says he will support new rape exceptions for abortion

KATY, Texas — By day, Glenn Ayala is a 50-something account manager who spends much of his time behind a desk. But at Rick Rice Park in the early morning darkness, doing pushups and jogging with a 20-pound rucksack on his back, he is known as K9, and he is with his people. One Friday in August, Ayala joined about 20 other men in what they called the pre-dawn “gloom” for the group’s regular workout. They grunted and hooted un-self-consciously, razzing one another and shouting encouragements, using nicknames generated by the group. (Ayala got his because he trains dogs in his spare time.) The members also often gather to pray together and talk, building friendships that have extended into their daily lives: When Ayala separated from his wife, members of the group helped him move. When his relationship with his adult son foundered, they texted him Garth Brooks songs to buoy him. This is F3 — that’s fitness, fellowship and faith — a fast-growing network of men’s workouts that … [Read more...] about For suburban Texas men, a workout craze with a side of faith

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 38 The cat-and-mouse game lasted 13 years. From the day 29-year-old Jesus Hilario Jimenez died on March 29, 2004, Cameron County Sheriff's investigators set out to find Ciro Cantu Munoz . Munoz managed to avoid arrest, investigators told KVEO-TV , by slipping into Mexico to avoid charges stemming from a lovers quarrel. VANDALS SOUGHT: Sheriff hunting for person who tossed white paint on cars in Spring Witnesses told deputies that Jimenez and Munoz were in a fight outside the home of Munoz's ex-wife when gunfire erupted. Jimenez, who was the ex-wife's new partner, was shot in the head and died at the scene. Story continues below. Detectives received … [Read more...] about After 13 years on the run, fugitive wanted for murder is nabbed

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 74 Across the Houston area there are dozens of families grieving the loss of a loved one and waiting for answers on what happened to that person. The cases seen here are unsolved murders, disappearances and fatal hit-and-run accidents from Crime Stoppers organizations and police agencies around greater Houston. MISSING IN WEST TEXAS: These students went to a concert together, then vanished Although their cases are unsolved these individuals are not forgotten. … [Read more...] about Unsolved murders and disappearances around Houston’s suburbs

University of Virginia officials said that three incidents that initially appeared to have been racially motivated in the past month were not linked, and that only one of the three appeared to be racially motivated. The three events included a noose found wrapped around a statue on campus, a student vandalizing the African American Affairs office building and an "unusual" act of philanthropy left on the grass near the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Jennifer "J.J." Wagner Davis, an executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Tim Longo, the associate vice president for safety and security, said in a university-wide email sent this week that "the nature and timing of these events have caused some to speculate they are linked or part of a larger pattern of racially motivated crimes." But the two wrote that there was "no current, visible trend of hate crimes or racially motivated acts." The first incident took place last month, when rocks were thrown through the … [Read more...] about U-Va. officials say 3 events are not a ‘trend of hate crimes’ on campus

Marco Rubio hopes to sway voters interested in Chick-fil-A, Ram trucks, and Duck Dynasty. John Fetterman is searching for fans of microbreweries, Teslas and the Dave Matthews Band. And Michael Bennet wants to reach people who like Taylor Swift and Lizzo — while avoiding devoted listeners of Jason Aldean. Candidates in some of the highest-profile midterm races are using Facebook and Instagram ad targeting to aim messages at voters based on their music tastes, sports fandoms, shopping destinations and television habits, a CNN review of data from the social media platforms found. The data, which Facebook parent company Meta has started to make public in recent months, provides a snapshot into how political campaigns are slicing and dicing online groups of voters based on very specific interests. And it's a sign that as America grows more politically polarized, the candidates are using cultural icons as proxies for politics. "There are very few things in American culture, … [Read more...] about Political candidates are targeting you on social media based on these interests. Here’s how.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In the eyes of Belarus' foreign minister, the root cause of the war in Ukraine dates back 30 years ago to the end of the Cold War. At that time, there was no official treaty — just a “gentlemen’s agreement” that opened a path for the West to secure its domination, in part through the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, Vladimir Makei told the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday. “With its drive to enlarge NATO, the West has essentially trampled upon the indivisibility of security, the vital principle, which states that one party must not seek to achieve its own security at the expense of other parties,” he said. Makei said NATO and the West, in their quest to expand eastward, “overlooked the legitimate security interests of both Russia and Belarus." He described NATO’s involvement in what he called “illegal wars” in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria, “in addition to the Alliance’s attempts to encroach on some historical Eastern Slavic and … [Read more...] about Belarus foreign minister blames NATO, West for Ukraine war