{"id":194850,"date":"2026-03-07T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:47:13","slug":"weekend-digest-texas-march-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194850\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Digest Texas March 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your weekend is here, Texas, and it’s time to take a look back at some of the stories that were in our headlines this week.<\/p>\n

Your Weekend Weather<\/p>\n

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Take a look at your local weekend forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Week in Review<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Trump and Abbott’s endorsed candidates split election victories<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s preferred candidates prevailed in two out of four contests where the president and Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed different picks this primary cycle.<\/p>\n

Of the four races, two were for statewide office and two were for congressional races. The Trump-backed candidate won in the race for Texas comptroller and leads heading into the runoff for the 9th Congressional District, while the Abbott-backed candidate won in the contest for agriculture commissioner and is ahead moving into the runoff for 35th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Austin police release videos from officers during West 6th Street mass shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

The Austin Police Department (APD) has released the body-worn camera footage from its officers who responded to Sunday morning\u2019s shooting at a West 6th Street bar, which left three people dead and many others injured. The FBI has said that it is investigating the shooting as a\u00a0potential act of terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales ends reelection bid after admitting to affair with aide<\/a><\/p>\n

Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas has announced that he will withdraw from his reelection race in a post on X late Thursday, after\u00a0having admitted an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide, but he vowed to finish out his term in Congress.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Texas judge declines to close Camp Mystic despite family’s request after last year’s floods<\/a><\/p>\n

A Texas judge on Wednesday ordered Camp Mystic to preserve damaged cabins but stopped short of blocking reopening plans after a family of one of the 25 girls and two counselors who died last summer sued to keep the camp closed.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Camp East Montana ICE facility may be closing, report says<\/a><\/p>\n

According to an internal document\u00a0reviewed by The Washington Post<\/a>, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is considering closing its Camp East Montana detention facility. Spectrum News 1 has not independently obtained a copy of the document.<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

U.S. employers cut surprising 92,000 jobs last month as unemployment rate rises to 4.4%<\/a><\/p>\n

American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%.<\/p>\n

The Labor Department reported Friday that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February.<\/p>\n

A Look Ahead\"Inside<\/p>\n

Inside the Austin Convention Center during South by Southwest on Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Spectrum News 1\/Katharine Finnerty)<\/p>\n

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South by Southwest begins on March 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your weekend is here, Texas, and it’s time to take a look back at some of the stories…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2160,132,102,1062,82,27,29,28,2053,8996],"class_list":["post-194850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-dallas","tag-mike-dalonzo","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-top-stories","tag-weekend-briefing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}