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Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas — The judge in the case of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has upheld an April order that the teen spend nearly two years in jail.
Judge Wayne Salvant signed an order Wednesday reaffirming the probation terms he imposed on Ethan Couch in April. The judge canceled a hearing on the matter scheduled for May 16.
Salvant had ordered that Couch spend 180 days in jail for each of the four people he killed in 2013 when he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of people helping a motorist. The sentences were to be served consecutively.
Couch said Salvant's order exceeded the court's authority. Couch"s case was transferred from juvenile court to adult court shortly after he turned 19.
Associated Press
HOUSTON -- A man who witnesses said went on a tirade after rescheduling a mental health clinic appointment was shot dead by the owner of a neighboring business in Houston.
The shooting happened Wednesday inside a building where the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services is housed in southwest Houston.
Police Detective Willis Huff says the man appeared at the clinic for an appointment when the staff rescheduled him because he said he wasn't feeling well. The man left, but witnesses said he returned within a half-hour and was yelling and kicking at glass doors.
Huff said the man continued his tirade at a neighboring business, where the owner had a gun and shot him dead.
Police say the shooter was licensed to carry a gun and is being interviewed.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Ted Cruz says he wants another term in the Senate.
The Texas lawmaker said in a statement Wednesday that he had filed the official paperwork for a re-election bid in 2018. The move reactivates his Senate campaign committee that would collect money for his run.
Cruz quit the presidential race last week after a crushing defeat in Indiana. He said in his statement that he will continue fighting for "jobs, freedom and security ... for 27 million Texans and all Americans."
He added that the conservative movement remains strong and vibrant.
Cruz has alienated several of his Republican colleagues during his time in the Senate, helping engineer a 16-day partial government shutdown in 2013 and calling Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate floor.