Aqua RichJo | September 28, 2026 The Dallas Wings are one loss from elimination. Golden State beat Dallas 104–80 Sunday night at Chase Center, taking a 1–0 lead in their best-of-three first-round playoff series. The seventh-seeded Wings now come home needing a win against the second-seeded Valkyries to keep their season alive. Game 2 is Wednesday, September 30, at 8 p.m. Central at College Park Center in Arlington. A Dallas win would force Game 3 back in Golden State. Golden

Aqua RichJo| September 26, 2026 Texas’ next maternal-mortality report was expected September 1. Now the state says it will come in December—after voters go to the polls on November 3 and after lawmakers can begin filing bills on November 9. Women’s-health advocates and lawmakers rallied outside the Texas Department of State Health Services on Friday, demanding answers about the delay. The report is supposed to examine deaths associated with pregnancy and recommend ways to pre

Aqua RichJo | September 25, 2026 Melissa Lucio remains on Texas death row after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a lower court’s finding that she was innocent of her daughter’s 2007 death. Four judges dissented. The ruling does not set an immediate execution date. This case has several legal decisions that cannot be folded into one headline. Lucio was convicted and sentenced to death in 2008. In 2024, a district judge recommended overturning her conviction and fin

Aqua RichJo| September 25, 2026 At UT Austin, students may still be able to take classes on Black women’s history, LGBTQ literature and women’s lives. But under the university’s redesigned core curriculum, none of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses submitted for review were approved to satisfy core requirements. That is a decision about what counts toward every undergraduate’s foundational education—and who gets to make that call. Reporting published September

Aqua Richjo | September 25, 2026 A woman called police during a domestic disturbance in April 2024. Former Lewisville officer Filemon Perez met her while responding to that call. On September 24, a Denton County jury convicted Perez of stalking her. According to KERA’s report on the trial, evidence showed Perez visited the woman’s apartment complex 83 times over roughly six months while on duty. GPS records reportedly showed that almost all of those visits had no legitimate w