A new law partially regulating the state’s burgeoning retail consumable-hemp industry went into effect yesterday, banning THC-laced “vapes” from smoke shops and gas stations across Texas. In other news, McKinney leaders are considering a $942 million budget and lower tax rate that includes funds for dozens of new city employees and millions for its expanding airport as the city benefits from continued growth in population and property value; U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his allies spent the summer attacking primary challenger Ken Paxton as unfit for office in an effort to erode the state attorney general’s robust early support among more conservative Lone Star State voters; and a father of five and former football standout at L.D. Bell High School was shot and killed early Monday after a fight erupted outside a Euless bar.

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