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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1908, pianist Alton Stricklin was born in Antioch. He joined Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1935, recording more than 200 songs with the group, including its bestselling album in 1973 after a 30-year hiatus. Stricklin is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame.

A Central Bell firefighter rescued a great horned owl with a broken wing at Chalk Ridge Falls Park in Belton. "Sparky" is recovering at a local wildlife rehabilitation center.

We're curious how our readers weathered the recent cold snap. Let us know if you had any power outages or burst pipes in today's Poll.

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NASA Plane Makes Emergency Landing

A NASA high-altitude research aircraft made a safe emergency landing at Ellington Field in Houston on Tuesday after its landing gear malfunctioned.

Both crew members were unharmed. Phone video of the harrowing landing shows smoke and flames trailing the aircraft as it skidded down the runway.

The jet-powered WB-57 has been used for atmospheric research missions since the early 1970s. It can reach altitudes of 63,000 feet, has a range of 2,500 nautical miles, and can stay airborne for more than six hours. NASA operates three of the aircraft out of Ellington Field.

It's unknown what caused the landing gear to stop working. "NASA will lead a thorough investigation," said spokesperson Bethany Stevens, adding the agency "anticipates no impact to Artemis II operations."

Coffee Shop Manager Quits Over ICE Discount

A Dallas-based coffee shop was mired in controversy after a dozen employees resigned over a policy they assumed required them to give ICE agents a discount intended for local first responders.

After a shooting at the ICE detention facility in Dallas last September, the manager of a nearby White Rhino coffee shop decided not to give the discount to agents.

"I made that a store policy to keep us safe," said Margot Stacy, explaining that the store gets "a lot of Muslim and Hispanic customers, people who only speak Spanish."

Following the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month, Stacy was told employees could not deny service to ICE agents. Shortly thereafter, store managers were directed to offer the first-responder discount to ICE agents, prompting Stacy to quit and speak out on social media.

"I wasn't going to compromise my moral standpoint in a company whose only moral was profit," Stacy said. White Rhino has since clarified that the discount is "only for uniformed, on-duty local first responders."

First Responders Lend a Helping Hand

More than 12,000 homes and businesses in East Texas were still without power yesterday morning. Dallas ISD and several other North Texas school districts canceled classes yesterday due to icy road conditions.

Police and fire personnel responded to 280 accidents in Dallas and 240 in Fort Worth over the weekend, while a 23-year-old man was arrested for doing donuts in a Jeep with a child inside the vehicle. Austin police responded to more than 2,200 calls for service.

A man in Sanger was rescued after falling into a pond where he was ice fishing, and a team of Austin paramedics bought groceries for an elderly diabetic woman whose blood sugar was low.

In Corpus Christi, volunteers used drones to locate at least 70 cold-stunned sea turtles that were brought to the Texas State Aquarium to recover. An aquarium staffer called the technology "a game changer."

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➤ Harris County: Four Aldine ISD students were hospitalized with minor injuries after a 17-year-old driving a stolen vehicle hit their bus during a police pursuit on Tuesday. The suspect was arrested at the scene. (More)

➤ Frisco: Grace Brito, 16, died Tuesday from injuries sustained during a Sunday sledding accident that killed her best friend, 16-year-old Elizabeth Angle. The teens were being pulled behind a Jeep when their sled struck a curb and then hit a tree. (More)

➤ Harris County: An off-duty deputy was shot in the hand by his 3-year-old nephew on Tuesday. The deputy was reportedly asleep on the couch and had taken off his duty belt before lying down. (See Details)

➤ Addison: The city council voted 5-2 on Tuesday to hold a May election to withdraw from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit network, becoming the sixth member city to consider cutting ties with the agency. "We've given a blank check to DART," said council member Howard Freed. (See Details)

➤ Houston: Dozens of people at Tuesday night's city council meeting demanded that local law enforcement discontinue all cooperation with ICE. "You are complicit in unleashing an army of untrained, unrestrained, wannabe cops," said Elizabeth Bahalim. (More)

➤ Corpus Christi: Alexandria Cano-Castro, a 36-year-old police officer, is in critical condition after being shot in the head by a suspect last Friday. Two other officers sustained less serious injuries, and the suspect is hospitalized in stable condition. (More)

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➤ Texas A&M relief pitcher Caden McCoy will miss the entire 2026 season after suffering an elbow injury requiring surgery during spring practice. The sophomore was an integral member of the Aggies' bullpen last year, appearing in 14 games. (More)

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➤ Texarkana police arrested an 18-year-old burglary suspect on Sunday after following his footprints in the snow to his home. "Had he looked behind him on the walk back home, he might've noticed the very clear trail pointing straight to his front door," said the department. (See Photo)

➤ Texas gained 391,243 residents between July 2024 and July 2025, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The figure leads the nation for the third year in a row. (See Details)

➤ Houston-born country singer and songwriter Robert Earl Keen has been named the 2026 Texan of the Year by the Texas Legislative Conference. Following last summer's flash floods, Keen organized a benefit concert that raised more than $3.2 million for victims. (More)

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