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Officials said overnight rainfall Thursday, Feb. 22, was a big factor in containment of the wildfire burning in Madison County since Tuesday, Feb. 20.The North

The fire started Feb. 20 and is located on Dan Branch off of East Fork Road in Marshall. While 13 structures were threatened, none were damaged.

Ken Paxton, Texas’ scandal-resilient attorney general, scored his biggest vindication yet when he was acquitted in his impeachment trial.

It marked a screaming milestone in a two-decade political career that has seen Paxton harness the state’s increasingly conservative politics — and later the rise of Donald Trump — to stay in power longer than his vulnerabilities would suggest.

Countless Republicans could do his job more effectively, but the attorney general is a crucial fighter in a long-brewing Texas GOP civil war.

Paxton was a break from the moderate, business-friendly Republican. He was a social conservative when it was novel to be one.

Texas House officials and attorneys defending state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) went head-to-head with a dueling pair of scathing opening statements in Paxton’s impeachment trial Tuesday. House managers emphasized the gravity of the charges against Paxton and the conservative credentials of the deputies who notified federal investigators about his alleged collaboration with realtor Nate Paul. Tony…

Paxton was a break from the moderate, business-friendly Republican. He was a social conservative when it was novel to be one.

Barraging the Obama administration with lawsuits, the Texas attorney general’s office wasn’t just trying to block policies. It was injecting disruptive, overtly Christian legal philosophies into the mainstream, and grooming a generation of conservative legal warriors.

To the dismay of the RINO establishment in Texas, their campaign to besmirch Paxton has not diminished his popular support.