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I pray a lot, it’s what a pastor does. I keep a prayer list and I have columns on my list. I pray for those who are sick physically, sick spiritually, I intercede for my enemies (that list seems to grow all the time), I pray for our president and other leaders around the world. I ask God for help in a variety of other things, I tell Him I’m sorry for my failures, I remind Him He is awesome and I let Him know I am grateful for all that He does.

DALLAS — When an officer pulled Brandy Bottone over for driving by herself in a high occupancy vehicle lane in Texas just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she pointed to her pregnant belly and told him her unborn daughter now counts as a person.

HOUSTON — An appeals court on Monday stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate who had raised questions about whether prosecutors had presented false and inaccurate testimony from an expert on whether he would commit more crimes in the future.

Even though a punishing heat wave across Texas drove record high power demand in recent days, Texans avoided rolling blackouts Monday after the Electric Reliability Council of Texas requested that they cut back on their energy use. And an ERCOT spokesperson told The Texas Tribune on Monday that the grid operator does not expect rolling blackouts this week.

Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe.

An Uvalde police officer asked for a supervisor’s permission to shoot the gunman who would soon kill 21 people at Robb Elementary School in May before he entered the building, but the supervisor did not hear the request or responded too late, according to a report released Wednesday evaluating the law enforcement response to the shooting.

The United Way of West Ellis County (UWWEC) partnered with organizations across the county to make an impact and service the people of the community on the 2022 Day of Action. On and around June 21, thousands of people in hundreds of communities worldwide volunteer through the United Way to build stronger, more equitable communities.

Alicia Fortner-Estrada thought she knew what to expect during the birth of her second child until a massive postpartum hemorrhage struck hours after the delivery — and the staff at Methodist Midlothian Medical Center was there “within a snap of the fingers.”