A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds ripped through rural land southeast of Los Angeles, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes, fire authorities said.

The Temple Education Foundation is offering the Temple ISD community a new way to show their appreciation for local teachers — gratitude that can be worn.

KILLEEN — Just west of Central Arkansas, in the verdant expanses of rolling green hillsides, lush countryside, and local creeks and rivers, Amy Mersiovsky, a Belton resident, now 47, grew up the eldest daughter in a farming family of five.

Texas Department of Transportation representatives will discuss the feasibility of extending Interstate 14 from Rogers in Bell County to Huntsville in Walker County during an in-person meeting on Thursday at the Yards of Cameron.

Central Texas is prepared for its first round of freezing temperatures.

The United Auto Workers union says it reached a tentative contract with General Motors, the last of the Detroit Three automakers to agree to a deal. Under the deal reached early Monday, workers at all three companies will return to the job pending v…

A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confounded economists, Federal Reserve officials and even the sour sentime…

A Kansas judge has put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked the state from enforcing older abortion restrictions. The order Monday from a district judge suspended laws that have spelled out what providers must tell patients an…

Police say a heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an attack at a Colorado amusement park. Authorities in Colorado say the body of the armed man wearing body armor and tactical clothing was found with homemade explosives, shutting d…

Lawyers for a group of Colorado voters are focusing on the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and former President Donald Trump’s words and actions in a trial that could determine whether the Constitution’s insurrection clause bars Trump from …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has alleged without offering evidence that Western spy agencies and their Ukrainian agents have helped engineer unrest in the southern region of Dagestan. A mob stormed the airport after a flight from Israel landed t…

Authorities say an Alaska State Trooper fatally shot a man who was brandishing a rifle outside a motel in the community of Tok. The state Department of Public Safety says the trooper was responding to a 911 call about a man trying to break into a mo…

A retired Republican state senator from North Dakota has been charged with traveling to Prague intending pay for sex with a minor, and with receiving images depicting child sexual abuse. The four-page federal indictment against longtime state Sen. R…

President Joe Biden has signed a sweeping executive order to guide the development of artificial intelligence. Monday's order requires industry to develop safety and security standards, introduces new consumer protections and gives federal agencies …

Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire Monday, even …

Cornell University administrators have dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements against Jewish students appeared on an online discussion board. Cornell President Martha E. Pollack says there was a series of “horrendou…

Imagine trying to perform all of Shakespeare’s plays in just 90 minutes.

A Temple woman is among eight people appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott Monday to the Rehabilitation Council of Texas.

A Temple man faces a state jail felony for allegedly possessing a woman’s debit card during a traffic stop.

Temple police responded to another early morning crash on I-35 Monday after a truck crossed the median and blocked several lanes of traffic. The accident occurred at 4:45 a.m. Monday, and lanes in both directions on I-35 were blocked.