Fort worth, (AP) – The brother of a Texas man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in suburban Dallas in 2008 has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping his sibling evade arrest for more than a decade. Yassein Abdulfatah Said was sentenced Friday in federal court in Fort Worth.…… MORE
New York (AP) – The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit that had accused New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility. NRA lawyers filed court papers Friday saying they were voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James. In a statement, the organization said…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Today is the day north Texans settle several run-off elections. Fort Worth voters will be choosing a new mayor. They’ll pick either Deborah Peoples or Mattie Parker to be the city’s first new mayor in a decade. Peoples was a former Democratic Party chairwoman who, if elected, would become Fort Worth’s first…… MORE
MIAMI (AP) – Royal Caribbean is announcing a U.S. summer schedule for eight of its cruise ships. The cruise line said Friday that the ships will sail in July and August from Texas, Florida and Washington state. It also announced a handful of trips in Europe. Royal Caribbean said all crew members will be vaccinated…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas Republicans are pressing ahead with their push for tougher election laws after Democrats’ defiant weekend walkout stopped one of the nation’s most restrictive voting measures. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday had still not called a special legislative session but says he intends to after Democrats blocked new voting laws…… MORE