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A Texas teenager, Aubrey Vanlandingham, has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly poisoning another student’s show goat at Vista Ridge High School’s barn facility in Cedar Park, Texas, about 20 miles north of Austin.   Police say the 17-year-old was caught on security footage using a drench gun—a tool typically used to administer medicine to livestock—to give a toxic …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a civil lawsuit against a New York physician for allegedly mailing ab0rtion pills to a 20-year-old woman in Texas, violating the state’s strict abortion laws.    Margaret Carpenter, founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, is accused of prescribing abortion-inducing drugs without holding a Texas medical license.   The lawsuit alleges that Carpenter’s …

SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city. ADVERTISEMENT Billionaire Elon Musk ‘s company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase – the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets – into an incorporated city. Residents of the area …

The Vatican has expelled a group of Texas nuns amid a dispute between the sisters and Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson after he accused their Reverend Mother of breaking her chastity vows with an online love affair.  Olson recorded his April 2023 interrogation of Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach in her Arlington convent, in which she seemed to admit to …

Ireland’s Katie Taylor defends her undisputed light-welterweight crown in a rematch against Amanda Serrano in Texas on Friday. The pair meet at Dallas’ AT&T Stadium on the undercard of 58-year-old Mike Tyson’s controversial bout against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, 27. You can follow live text commentary of Tyson-Paul from 03:00 GMT on Saturday, 16 November on BBC Sport website and app. …

A 21-year-old woman in Texas has been arrested after she allegedly tried to sell her newborn baby boy to the “highest bidder” on Facebook.   Juniper Bryson was arrested and taken into custody last week after she allegedly attempted to pawn her baby off on Facebook, seeking a minimum of $150 from prospective buyers before even going into labor.   …