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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border can take effect while a legal battle over the new state law empowering local law enforcement plays out.The decision comes a day after the high court had extended its temporary block of the law.Justice Samuel Alito had issued the block as the high court considered an appeal from the Biden administration, which has argued Senate Bill 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws.The legal case is far from over. The case remains pending before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Eventually it has to be resolved in a federal court in Austin, where the lawsuits were originally filed.In…

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Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below.Learn more about the case with original videos, archival photos, and documents from our reporting in our episode guide. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify They said, “Well, it’s not going to be pretty.” I said, “It hadn’t been pretty since they disappeared, but I told my son I’d find him.”Marshall StewartOn July 4, 1988, sixteen-year-old Shane Stewart and eighteen-year-old Sally McNelly went out for the night in their West Texas hometown of San Angelo. They watched the fireworks, stopped for burgers, and drove out to the lake outside of town. They were never seen alive again.That summer, as their parents waited for news from the authorities, Shane’s father, Marshall, began an investigation of…

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East of downtown El Paso and just a couple of blocks from the tangle of highways that funnel into the Bridge of the Americas sits a small, easy-to-miss Mexican diner. Nothing in its English, aggressively anodyne name or its industrial park facade would suggest that Good Luck Cafe has been a mainstay here for more than half a century.Considered by locals to serve the best menudo in the city, Good Luck is as humble as that traditional tripe-and-hominy soup (and purported hangover antidote). Inside, the booths and tables, like the bowls and plates, are plastic; the fluorescent lights and beige tile floor don’t exactly scream ambience. And yet a line forms out the door every day. There is an undeniable feeling of comfort at Good Luck,…

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Allyson Cliett, who is forty, is the special projects coordinator for Hillsboro. She’s responsible for preparing the North Texas city for the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8.I grew up in Hillsboro, an hour south of Dallas, and moved back about a decade ago. In February 2023 I applied for a position with the city. Our city manager invited me to coffee and asked if I had heard about the solar eclipse. She explained that she needed a special projects coordinator whose first assignment would be getting Hillsboro ready for a huge influx of tourists coming to see it. I thought that sounded amazing. The eclipse crosses the country from Texas to Maine, but the path of totality, where the moon completely blocks the sun,…

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Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below.Learn more about the case with original videos, archival photos, and documents from our reporting in our episode guide. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Spotify “They were leaving the state because they were afraid of these people. And she said, ‘If you don’t hear from us in a couple of months, then we’re dead.’ ”Valerie CastilloIn the fall of 1987, Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly met through mutual friends and began dating. Shane was tall and confident. Sally loved to be the center of attention, and moved easily between groups of friends. Later that year, the two began spending more time with a group of teenagers who met up to practice occult rituals. Some…

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