Beryl batters Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as Texas officials urge coastal residents to prepare

TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Beryl battered Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Friday after hitting near the resort town of Tulum, whipping trees and knocking out power, while officials in Texas urged coastal residents to prepare as the storm moves toward the Gulf of Mexico. Beryl hit Mexico...

Texas officials urge coastal residents to prepare for Beryl as the storm moves toward the Gulf of Mexico

How Texas is still investigating migrant aid groups on the border after a judge's scathing order

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country, taking some groups to court and making demands that a judge called harassment after the state tried shuttering...

Bertoletti, Sudo win top dog honors at Nathan’s Famous power-eating contest, absent longtime champ

NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Bertoletti gobbled up 58 hot dogs to win his first men’s title Thursday at the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, taking advantage of the absence of the event's biggest star. In the women's competition, defending champion Miki Sudo won her...

Bochy won't have any of his players in AL All-Star lineup at home after Texas had 5 starters in '23

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The American League starting lineup that Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy will write out for the All-Star Game won't include any of his own players. A year after the Rangers had five All-Star starters — four voted in by fans, and another as an injury...

The 1st All-Star nod for Padres' Profar has a Texas flair, 12 years after his debut with Rangers

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jurickson Profar never thought he had the chance to show the Texas Rangers and their fans the player he thought he could be. He's set to be an All-Star for the first time in the retractable roof stadium the Rangers opened two years after Profar was traded. ...

David Peralta hits 1st homer of the season, helps the Padres beat the Rangers 6-4

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — David Peralta is just filling in for All-Star right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr., and the 36-year-old veteran knows it. Just one more reason to savor the biggest moment of his season with San Diego. Peralta hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in...

At half a mile a week, Texas border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion to build

Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it. That infrastructure — which has so far run up a price tag of some $25 million per mile —...

Bond increased to $1M for Texas woman accused in attempted drowning seen as possible hate crime

EULESS, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman accused of trying to drown a 3-year-old at an apartment complex pool in suburban Dallas after making racist remarks toward the child’s mother has been rearrested following an increase in her bond to $1 million, according to court records. ...

Worsening floods and deterioration pose threats to US dam safety

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it, eroding so much of the riverbank that most of a house fell into the river. Several days later, intense rain damaged a dam that holds drinking water...