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MENTONE, Texas — On a December day in 2021, Loving County Judge Skeet Jones, 71, climbed atop an oilfield tank surrounded by wide-open Texas desert dressed in a business suit and toting a pair of binoculars, hoping to spot an elusive black bull. 

What Jones most likely didn’t realize from his steel perch as he scanned the horizon: He, too, was being watched as part of a cattle-rustling

California’s first mandatory water restrictions ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown, in response to a four-year drought, did not affect agriculture because, Brown said, farmers had sacrificed enough.

But as irrigation, which uses as much as 80 percent of California’s surface water, has begun to dry up even the water beneath the surface of the state’s fertile valleys, what can be done to limit

Thousands of gun owners, throngs of protesters and some prominent Republican politicians are expected in Houston for the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, just three days after 19 children and two adults were shot to death at an elementary school in South Texas.

The event, which is being held in the George R. Brown Convention Center and will last through Sunday, "will

A battle is heating up in California over Gov. Jerry Browns proposal to boost funding for all schools but funnel more money to districts where many students are poor and struggle with English and less to wealthier districts.