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SHEPHERD, TEXAS (AP) — Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order for Texas residents within a one-mile radius of a chemical plant fire Wednesday. A large plume of smoke could be seen in video captured by residents as the plant caught fire in Shepherd, Texas. San Jacinto County Office of Emergency Management said in a statement that a private school in the area had been evacuated and that

Boston police arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection to an incident in Monday afternoon in Allston, in which a boy was stabbed and another person was threatened with a knife, they said. Police responded to the scene for a report of a person stabbed in the area of Armington Street shortly before 3:30 p.m., a press release noted. First responders transported a boy to a local hospital for

An Alabama mayor ended his life after a website showed pictures of him cross-dressing F.L. "Bubba" Copeland wore many hats in the small city of Smiths Station in east Alabama. He was the mayor, a pastor and the owner of a local grocery store. He was also a husband and father. But in the days before Copeland took his life, the 49-year-old was revealed to have another identity — this time, of a

Fledgling House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faces his first big legislative battle this week as his tries to marshal his fractious Republican majority into supporting an unconventional plan to avert a partial government shutdown beginning Saturday. Some House Republican hardliners were already pushing back at Johnson's proposal for a two-step stopgap bill that would not otherwise cut spending