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A shadowy new group has purchased at least $6 million in TV ads ahead of the November election and is airing an ad that targets Gov. Greg Abbott as he runs for reelection.

The minute-long ad from Coulda Been Worse LLC, which started airing Friday, rattles off a list of major calamitous events that have happened on Abbott’s watch, such the Uvalde school shooting and 2021 power-grid collapse.

The sudden TV spending by Coulda Been Worse LLC comes as Abbott battles for a third term against Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke.

“I recognize the damage this has done,” said Patrol Major Jim Lewis at a town hall meeting in southern Dallas on Wednesday night.

Django Koenig woke up one morning last week to find his black Jamis bicycle missing from the porch of his apartment on Burlington's Decatur Street....

Mihaela Moscaliuc’s most recent book of poetry, Cemetery Ink, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The Sound Boat (University of Wisconsin Press) is Judith Vollmer’s new collection featuring new poems and selected poems from her catalog. Read more on their friendship and life's work.

Reports have been swirling that a DeLuca's Pizzeria will be a part of the Breckenridge Village Shopping Center revitalization. Jim Keet of JTJ Restaurants, one of the partners who bought the center at North Rodney Parham Road and Interstate 430, confirms that "while we don't have a final signed deal" with owner Anthony Valinoti, "it's 95% a 'go.'"

Man Turns Himself In After Deadly Pedestrian Crash

The Russia-linked ransomware gang Conti avoided the sanctions that hit Russian banks and businesses after the invasion of Ukraine, spotlighting the difficulty of reining in cybercriminals. Meanwhile, confused victims face uncertainty.

This morning (5/17) presented an article by Michael Waters in the on-line edition of The Atlantic noting that only about half of Americans die with a will (i.e., testamentary...