SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A gunman dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a small South Texas church, killing 26 people in an attack that claimed tight-knit neighbors and multiple family members ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old. Once the shooting started Sunday at the First Baptist Church in …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said Monday that “substantially inaccurate historical statements” don’t belong on display at the state Capitol as they seek a review of a Confederate marker that rejects slavery as an underlying cause of the Civil War. It was a clearer denunciation than Abbott’s office originally gave last week following a private meeting …