A Texas Amber Alert has been issued for two children who were last seen on Tuesday night, officials said. According to the DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office, officials are searching for Aiydann Ribera who is described as a 4-year-old Hispanic male who is 3’0″, weighs 34 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a neon orange shirt, black shorts, and black shoes. Officials said they are also searching for Angel Ribera, a 5-year-old Hispanic, who 3’5”, weighs 45 pounds, and has black hair and black eyes. He was last seen wearing a neon yellow shirt, black shorts, and black shoes. Both boys were last seen at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, in the 120 block of East 5th Street in Yorktown, Texas, officials said. According to the DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office, police are searching for 24-year-old Julian Ribera in connection with their abduction. Officials said Ribera is described as a Hispanic male who is 5’11”, weighs 175 pounds, and has brown hair and black eyes. Ribera was last seen in San Antonio wearing unknown clothing. Officials said Ribera is driving a black 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe bearing Texas license plate number FVK0342. According to law…

Not only is money coming from the state legislature but also from Washington D.C. When the CEO of ERCOT gave an update in late April, he mentioned the Inflation Reduction Act money passed by Congress is bringing more renewable energy to Texas, which will help the grid overall. New projects are coming to Texas from the Biden Administration. Some projects will use power like $78 billion worth of semiconductor and electric facilities. Others aim to increase the use of renewable and green energy like $18 billion in clean energy manufacturing and infrastructure. Plus $49 billion in clean power according to a database from the White House. One of those programs will get more solar panels on top of North Texas homes and businesses. Lone Star Politics got a look at how that will happen. A class of apprentice electricians are well on their way to a profession in Grand Prairie. At the training center for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 20 more than four hundred students learn how power system work and how to install them in homes and businesses. A group that is in their second year. In year five they’ll learn solar panels…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. The provision of House Bill 1181, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, remains in effect even as the association’s full appeal is weighed by the Supreme Court. There were no noted dissents from the court’s one-sentence order. Similar age verification laws have passed in other states, including Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia. The Texas law carries fines of up to $10,000 per violation that could be raised to up to $250,000 per violation by a minor. Last year, a federal judge blocked the law’s age verification requirement and health warnings, finding that they likely violated the Constitution. But in March, a divided panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the age verification ruling, although it upheld the health warnings ruling that adult sites can’t be forced to publish statements with which they disagree. The health warnings, disputed by the industry, included that pornography is addictive, impairs mental development and increases the…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered flags in the Panhandle town of Fritch to be lowered to half-staff in honor of Fritch Fire Chief Zeb Smith. According to a letter sent to Fritch Mayor Tom Ray, Abbott’s office said Smith died in the line of duty “while responding to a structure fire.” “The first lady and I extend prayers of comfort for the Smith family during their time of grief,” said Abbott. “We urge all Texans to remember and honor Chief Smith’s service as a brave and dedicated firefighter.” Smith’s obituary said he was “a true hero” who died “serving his fellow man.” Smith, 40, will be remembered in a memorial service on Saturday at Grace Church in Fritch. Smith began firefighting in 2016 and began volunteering for the Fritch Volunteer Fire Department in 2017. He was named chief in 2020. He is survived by his two sons, Zane and Braylan. The governor’s order covers the flags of Texas and the United States. Individuals, businesses and government facilities in the surrounding area are also allowed to fly their flags at half-staff in Smith’s honor, the governor’s letter said. Flags should return to full staff within 10 days. Courtesy of Texas…

A Dallas woman is back in the U.S. with her family days after she was found driving in a small town in rural Mexico with no knowledge of how she got there. Enola Harris, 76, told police in Muzquiz, Mexico, that she had left her home in Dallas two days earlier – somehow ending up nearly 10 hours away and crossing the border into the Mexican state of Coahuila. “It is so strange,” said Tania Flores, mayor of the town of Muzquiz. After driving Harris back across the border into Texas on Sunday, the small-town mayor in Mexico told NBC 5 she still had questions about how this situation happened. “An old lady, 76 years old, that has amnesia, she ended up in a small little town in Mexico two days after,” Flores said. “She didn’t have clothes, and like how, how?” It all started just after midnight on Saturday morning in the rural town of Muzquiz, Coah., located about an hour and a half southwest of the U.S.-Mexico border. Police saw Harris with Texas plates driving the wrong way through downtown. “And they pull her over, and they realize that she did not have a clue where she was,” Flores…