Priscilla Thompson

More millennial women are reaching a transitional age of declining hormones and disruptive symptoms. They’re not suffering in silence.

ALAMO, Texas — Along the winding Rio Grande in South Texas lies a history many have never heard, of a southern route to freedom for enslaved people on the Underground Railroad into Mexico. “It’s so close, but yet it was so far for so many people,” O.J. Trevino said, peering across the river at the Mexican side of the border from his family’s property. “Knowing that they just had to get there.” Trevino, who grew up just 5 miles from the border, was shocked to learn that his fifth-great-grandmoth…

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Spring breakers flocking to Texas beaches this month could stumble upon a sight many have never seen — a bright blue and silver sea slug known as the blue dragon. While the tiny, 1-inch creatures may look like fun, researchers warn that touching them could result in a painful sting. “There’s all kinds of stories of people accidentally stepping on these blue dragons or picking them up and squeezing them and getting stung. And yeah, it doesn’t end well,” said Jace Tunnell,…

Six people are dead and dozens injured after tornadoes struck Nashville and the Tennessee town of Clarksville early Saturday evening, officials said. The dead in Clarksville include two adults and one child, according to a statement from Michelle Newell, spokesperson for Montgomery County, where the town is located. Another 23 people were taken to hospitals. Nashville Emergency Operations Center officials said three people also died in a northern community of the city along Nesbitt Lane. They re…

Carlee Russell, 25, disappeared for 48 hours after she called 911 on Thursday to report seeing a toddler on the interstate. Police said there has been no evidence of a toddler.

The total number of positive cases among the Texas House delegation in Washington is five.

At least 18 paroled inmates died behind bars last year because the programs they had to complete before they could be released were slowed or stopped cold by the pandemic, a new report says.

The mother of Ronald Greene, a barber who died after a violent confrontation with Louisiana State Police, said Saturday that the release of body camera video of her son’s arrest has left her “hurting so bad.” The Associated Press on Wednesday published edited body camera footage from Greene’s arrest on May 10, 2019, following a pursuit that may have started with Greene driving erratically, including allegedly running a red light, according to audio from the video. Louisiana State Police Supt. La…