Good Morning! On this day in 1969, the Lyndon B. Johnson State Historical Park in Gillespie County opened to the public. In its first five years of operation, the 718-acre park attracted over 3.5 million visitors.
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Predator Sweep Nets 276 Arrests
The FBI Dallas Division and more than 90 partner agencies wrapped up a two-month sweep targeting online child predators across North Texas, arresting 276 people and rescuing 89 children.
Operation Soteria Shield deployed 197 law enforcement personnel from 91 federal, state, and local agencies across multiple Texas counties between March and April.
Those arrested face charges ranging from possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material to online solicitation, sex trafficking, and sexual assault, per the FBI.
Authorities called it one of the largest child exploitation operations ever conducted in Texas, with the FBI’s North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force leading the effort.
Screwworm Moves Closer to Border
The USDA confirmed this week that the New World screwworm—a parasitic fly whose larvae eat warm-blooded animals from the inside out—was detected in a sheep in Mexico’s Coahuila state, just 31 miles from the Texas border, the closest the pest has advanced toward U.S. soil in recent years.
The fly lays eggs in open wounds on livestock; the larvae then spiral inward through living flesh, killing the animal within days if not caught. Texas ranchers have watched the parasite creep north through Mexico for more than a year, dreading the inspection burden on sprawling ranches with scarce labor should the screwworm arrive.
A Texas outbreak could cost the state’s ranching economy an estimated $1.8 billion, according to federal estimates. The border has been closed to livestock imports from Mexico for more than a year, and the U.S. cattle herd is at its lowest level in 75 years.
Teen’s AI Project May Stop Wrong-Way Crashes
An Irving teenager has built an AI-powered dashcam designed to spot wrong-way drivers before a deadly crash, a solution born from Texas’ worsening problem with wrong-way collisions.
Rohan Parthipan, now a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, spent two years developing the device, which reads the backs of highway signs, markers that appear distinctly different to a driver going the wrong direction. In field tests, the system issued alerts within 30 to 45 seconds.
Wrong-way crashes have killed hundreds of Texans in recent years. A wrong-way collision on U.S. 75 in May left two dead, including a mother of three children. Parthipan is among a growing group of safety advocates pushing Texas officials to adopt technology-based solutions.
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➤ Statewide: State Rep. James Talarico holds a three-point lead over Ken Paxton in the first post-runoff poll of the Texas U.S. Senate race—47% to 44%—according to Texas Public Opinion Research. (More)
➤ Progreso: Federal agents seized 50 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a vehicle at the Progreso Port of Entry as part of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation. (More)
➤ East Texas: Proposed federal legislation would direct the U.S. Army to develop lithium deposits in the region, potentially making East Texas a key node in America’s critical minerals supply chain. (More)
➤ El Paso: Illegal immigrant detainees at Camp East Montana filed a federal lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions, including inadequate medical care and overcrowding. (More)
➤ Dallas: A law firm filed suit against Atmos Energy on behalf of a survivor of the apartment explosion in Oak Cliff that killed three residents last week, alleging the company failed to properly monitor conditions and to warn of the potential danger associated with a natural gas leak. (More)
➤ Statewide: New USPS data shows Texas is second among states, and Dallas is second among cities, for dog attacks on mail carriers, with more than 5,200 incidents recorded nationally in 2025. (More)
➤ Austin: Immigrant rights advocates rallied at the Texas Capitol to oppose Senate Bill 4 after a federal appeals court ruled to allow enforcement of the law, which permits state arrests of suspected border crossers, while litigation continues. (More)
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➤ No. 2 seed Texas and No. 8 Texas Tech softball avoided elimination in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City on Sunday. The Longhorns defeated No. 4 Nebraska 3-1, while the Red Raiders edged No. 8 UCLA 8-7. (More)
➤ In college baseball, No. 6 seed Texas advanced to the Super Regional with a 6-4 win over UC Santa Barbara in the Austin Regional yesterday, while No. 12 Texas A&M lost 14-3 to USC in the College Station Regional and will face them again today. (More)
➤ Russell Henley won the Charles Schwab Challenge on Sunday at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, birdieing the first playoff hole to defeat Eric Cole. Henley rallied with three straight birdies late in regulation to force the playoff and earn his sixth PGA Tour victory. (More)
➤ Cowboys rookie Caleb Downs is drawing early praise ahead of OTAs, with Dak Prescott highlighting his calm, confident demeanor and leadership traits. Owner Jerry Jones also pointed to Downs’ presence as Dallas looks for a new defensive leader. (More)
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➤ Texas dominated corporate relocations from 2018 to 2025, with Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston collectively gaining 230 headquarters, according to a new CBRE report. Meanwhile, California’s Bay Area shed 163 headquarters, with companies increasingly citing lower taxes and lighter regulation as key motivators. (More)
➤ Firefly Aerospace moved into three new Cedar Park buildings, doubling its campus to 144,000 square feet for spacecraft assembly, avionics, and a new innovation lab—qualifying for up to a $1 million city grant. (More)
➤ Lacy Lakeview, a Waco suburb of 8,000, is betting that a proposed $10 billion data center could lift its annual tax revenue from $6.5 million to $50 million—enough to fix a decades-long backlog of crumbling streets and aging pipes. (More)
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➤ The Texan Golden Boot, an 18-foot sculpture forged from locally sourced reclaimed metal, was unveiled at Arlington’s Richard Greene Linear Park just two weeks before the 2026 FIFA World Cup opens in North Texas. (See Sculpture)
➤ Lake Travis near Austin has been ranked Texas’ top lake for “Instagrammable” fishing, drawing anglers with its clear Highland Lakes waters and scenic limestone bluffs. (More)
➤ Meanwhile, Caddo Lake in East Texas served as a filming location for The Mandalorian and Grogu movie, with Captain Ron’s Swamp Tours among the locals celebrating the bayou’s galactic Star Wars debut. (More)
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Predator Sweep Nets 276 Arrests
