The Midland RockHounds are off to a hot start in the 2026 Texas League season.

The Double-A affiliate of the Athletics, the team swept the Arkansas Travelers at home to start the season at 3-0.

The RockHounds opened the season with a 5-1 win against the ‘Travelers.

The Hounds scored single runs in the first and second innings, then got three insurance rans in the bottom of the fourth inning to put the game away.

Clark Elliott singled to score Leo De Vries in the first, then Shane McGuire doubled to score Ryan Lasko in the second.

Hunter Fitz-Gerald then singled for the Travelers to score Lazaro Montes in the top of the fiffth.

In the bottom of the fifth, Brayan Buelvas got the first home run for the RockHounds to make it 3-1 Hounds. Joshua Koruda-Grauer then doubled to score McGuire. A wild pitch then scored Koruda-Grauer.

The following night, the Travelers took a four-run lead into the bottom of the ninth, only to see the RockHounds walk it off with a 5-4 victory.

The Travelers got two runs in the top of the fourth with a two-run jack that by Jared Sundstrom that also scored Lazaro Montes.

In the top of the eighth, the Travelers got two solo shots and were cruising to a possible win.

However, the RockHounds had other ideas. DeVres would single to score Cameron Leary. Then, Tommy White would draw a bases-loaded walk to score McGuire. Buelvas would get another single to score Koruda-Grauer. Then, Elliott would single in the winning run with a two-run single that brought home DeVries and Coby Halter for the win.

The following night, the Hounds would go for the sweep, and would get it with a 4-2 win over the Travelers.

The Hounds took an early 3-1 lead with a run in the first and two runs in the second. Tommy White would single home Koruda-Grauer in the first, followed by two RBI doubles by Ryaln Lasko and Cole Conn that scored Clark Elliott and Lasko, respectively.

The Travelers would get two runs back in the fourth inning with a double by Montes that would score Sundstrom and a triple by Fitz-Gerald that would score Montes to make it 3-2.

However, Kuroda-Grauer would homer for the RockHounds in the 5th to make it 4-2 for rhe win.

A Fort Woth man has died after a high-speed chase with Fort Worth Police overnight Sunday morning.

The FWPD reported that, around 2:30 a.m., a car was spotted with no headlights traveling on Interstate 35 West near Rosedale Street.

Officers said that the car hit another vehicle, and that they then initiated a traffic stop. However, the vehicle then took off at a high rate of speed.

During the chance, according to the FWPD, the vehicle then hit another car and then continued for another 15 miles, during which the FWPD lost sight of the vehicle.

After a search, they found the crashed vehicle at the 1500 block of Tarver Road, where it had gone off the roadway and crashed, police said. 

Police found two men inside the vehicle, the release states. The passenger exited the vehicle with minor injuries while the driver was pronounced dead on the scene, police said. 

The missing airman who was shot down over Iran has been rescued.

The unnamed weapons systems officer hiked to q nearby mountain range, and the Central Intelligence Agency directed the rescue.

U.S, officials said that they detected the crew member’s distress beacon but said that there was a risk that the beacon was an Iranian trap.

However, once it was confirmed that the beacon was not a trap, the CIA gave the go-ahead for the rescue.

The U.S. military then carried out a deception campaign, in which they claimed that the downed airman had already been rescued.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe informed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan “Raizin'” Caine and, ultimately, Trump.

“Within eight hours, we had planes in motion,” the source said. “Within almost 12 hours we were on the ground in Iran.

The U.S. military used MQ9 Reaper drones to protect the area around where the airman was hiding. They fired on anything that came close to that area and any area where U.S. forces were operating to prevent crowds or any Iranians from approaching.

“We executed multiple large-scale strikes in the surrounding area using every tactical jet in the U.S. inventory and B-1 Bombers to keep him safe,” according to a senior U.S. official.