The governor’s threats have produced quick wins on hot-button issues important to the GOP base – immigration and perceived threats posed by Islam.

Texas cities and counties have already had their budgets compressed by a variety of factors, including the state’s current property tax limits.

A venomous snake is on the loose after police say it escaped from its enclosure in a home in Grand Prairie, Texas earlier this week.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – A Texas couple, both teachers and married for 30 years, died from COVID-19 complications while holding each other’s hands and the hands of their children in the hospital. The Blackwells were teachers at the Grand Prairie Independent School District in Grand Prairie, Texas. “Doctors said they hadn’t seen any progression at all, and they were slowly declining in their overall vital functions,” Shawn Blackwell told CNN. They were together and holding hands. “I just want people to know I am proud of the people my mom and dad were and proud of the things they accomplished,” Shawn Blackwell told CNN.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Police say an 18-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of actor Eddie Hassell during a random robbery at a suburban Dallas apartment complex parking lot over the weekend. Grand Prairie police say D'jon Antone was arrested on a capital murder charge Wednesday at his home in Dallas. Antone was being held Thursday at the Grand Prairie Detention Center on $500,000 bond. Police spokesman Mark Beseda said Hassell was visiting a friend at the apartment complex and was shot after going to the parking lot to retrieve something. “He was just a victim of wrong place, wrong time,” Beseda said.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – The actor Eddie Hassell, known for his roles in the NBC show “Surface” and the 2010 film “The Kids Are All Right,” has died after a shooting in Texas, police said. The shooting happened early Sunday in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, police said. Grand Prairie police said in a statement that officers responded to a report of a shooting and found Hassell suffering from gunshot wounds. A representative for Hassell told Variety that the shooting appeared to be connected to a carjacking. Grand Prairie police said the motive remained under investigation, but that a car had been taken from the scene of the shooting.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas A large fire burned early Wednesday at a Texas factory where trash bags and other plastics are produced. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the fire that broke out in the predawn hours in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie. The Grand Prairie Fire Department said firefighters were battling the blaze at the Poly-America complex and asked people to avoid the area. The cause of the fire wasn't immediately known. Poly-America is headquartered in Grand Prairie and specializes in products made from polyethylene, such as trash bags, drop cloths and plastic sheeting, according to the companys website.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas Police in suburban Dallas say a 13-year-old boy was driving a vehicle that struck three adults and two children, killing one of the adults. Grand Prairie police said teen was driving the sedan Sunday night without his parents consent when he hit the people. Police say two women and a man were pushing a 1-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl in strollers when they were all hit on a highway frontage road. Police say the teen did not see the pedestrians walking in the same direction he was traveling. She was the legal guardian of the 1-year-old boy.