The gunman who killed 23 people and injured 22 others in a 2019 mass shooting aimed at Latinos at a Texas Walmart pleaded guilty to murder on Monday and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole,

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart in 2019 is expected to accept a plea deal to avoid the death penalty

Patrick Crusius, who is white, was 21-years-old when he drove more than 700 miles from his home in Dallas to target Hispanics in El Paso in a deadly mass shooting

Authorities say a shootout in front of a family courthouse between several Texas deputies and a man with a handgun wounded a deputy and the suspect

A Houston-area deputy was shot by a suspect who was also wounded during a chaotic incident outside a Family Law Center, authorities said

Ryan Mindell, the embattled executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission, has resigned, according to a terse press release published on the agency's website Monday afternoon. Mindell's departure comes almost exactly one year to the day after he took over the top job at the agency,

The resignation comes after the Texas House adopted a budget that would reduce the lottery's budget to zero, leaving the agency's future uncertain.

The Texas Lottery Commission did not immediately clarify why Ryan Mindell chose to resign, as lawmakers have discussed abolishing the lottery outright.

Additional heavy rain is expected across the Plains this week. With streams already swollen and the ground saturated, that leaves the area at risk of additional flooding.

A slow-moving, active storm system brought heavy rain, large hail and tornadoes to parts of Texas and Oklahoma and left three people dead as severe weather warnings Sunday continue to threaten parts of the south-central and Midwest U.

The storm also brought heavy rain to a broad swath of north-central Texas across central-eastern Oklahoma, which saw 2 to 4 inches accumulate Saturday into Sunday.