Jacksonville Daily Progress · Huntsville, TX
A Texas man convicted of stabbing and beheading three children he helped raise has been put to death, hours after an execution in Oklahoma. John Allen Rubio received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state prison in Huntsville. In…
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thecarrollnews.com · Washington, TX
Nearby: Washington, TXMorgan Griffith won his race to retain his seat in Congress and did so by the largest margin of any Republican running for national office in the Commonwealth. Griffith represents the 9th District, which stretches from Henry County in the east all the way to the western tip of the state.“I’m just very pleased and thankful to the voters of the ninth congressional district for allowing me to continue to be their congressman and take fair conservative values to Washington D.C. for another few years,” said Griffth after the election.Griffith bested his Democratic challenger Joy Powers with 66% percent of votes cast. Congressman Ben Cline of Virginia’s Sixth District beat Beth Macy with 55% of the votes cast, while John McGuire of Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District squeaked by Democratic challenger Tom Periello with just over 50% of the vote.Those three Republican congressmen survived the Democrat Tsunami of 2026, but others weren’t so fortunate. Incumbent Robert J.
El Observador · Washington, TX
Nearby: Washington, TXDonald Trump’s Republican Party has received a stunning rebuke in the US midterm elections. Republicans went into the evening hoping that the polls might be wrong and that they could at least cling on to control of the Senate. But by midnight in Washington, the GOP was staring down what looked like its worst defeat in 50 years. Republican losses were not just confined to the type of swing districts that parties usually worry about on election night. The scale of the losses was staggering. They lost Senate seats in deep red states such as Texas and South Carolina. They lost districts they had gerrymandered and in which they were supposed to be unbeatable. They lost seats that even the sharpest analysts thought were safe. Why? For months, surveys have shown that voters are fed up with high prices, with the war in Iran, and with what is increasingly being talked about as the Trump administration’s corruption.
