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21 hours ago | houstonchronicle.com | Matt Degrood

The future of a Houston-area nonprofit dedicated to partnering police with teens to improve community policing is in doubt after President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice canceled the anti-hate grant that helped fund it. Federal officials recently canceled around $387,600 in grants for the Teen and Police Service Academy, or TAPS, organization based in Houston, according to federal records.

23 hours ago | houstonchronicle.com | Benjamin Wermund

Legislation endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dustin Burrows banning teens from acting like animals in schools is likely dead after failing to clear a House committee ahead of a key deadline this week. The “Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education (F.U.R.R.I.E.S) Act,” which would prohibit any “non-human behavior” by a student, including wearing animal ears or barking, meowing or hissing, did not advance out of a House education committee by Monday’s deadline.

1 day ago | houstonchronicle.com | Richard Marcus

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a two-run 430-foot walk-off homer to centerfield to give the San Diego Padres a comeback 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night. Tatis dropped the bat emphatically and watched the ball fly after he connected on a cutter against Angels closer Kenley Jansen (0-2), who took the loss. Padres reliever Jason Adam (4-0) earned the win with a scoreless ninth.

1 day ago | houstonchronicle.com | Kyle Hightower

BOSTON (AP) — Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves are on the brink of their second straight trip to the Western Conference finals. In the East, Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks are a win away from reaching the conference finals for the first time in 25 years. New York wasn't given much of a shot entering its semifinal matchup against a Boston Celtics team it went 0-4 against during the regular season. There aren't a lot of Knicks doubters now.

1 day ago | houstonchronicle.com | Jim Vertuno

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force three U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting to testify in the prosecution of the former school police chief, who is facing criminal charges over the slow law enforcement action at the massacre.