A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed.

Hydroponic farming is a type of farming that doesn't use soil. It's said to be more sustainable, using less soil and pesticides.

A farmer in Fredericksburg says he’s not letting the heat, lack of rain and decreased production discourage the business his father started more than 60 years ago.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., one of the most popular race car drivers in history, has been inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, joining his late father.

Rookie Max Schrock went 5 for 5 with a home run while giving All-Star Joey Votto a break, leading fellow newcomer Vladimir Gutierrez and the Cincinnati Reds over the New York Mets 7-1.

SAN ANTONIO – Authorities arrested a man who they said befriended a 66-year-old woman, isolated her and used her confidential information for financial gain as her health declined. Patrick Farmer, 36, has been charged with multiple offenses relating to elder fraud in Guadalupe County, according to Selma police. Wagner said Farmer befriended the Selma woman after her husband died. Farmer took the woman to the hospital when he was unable to take care of her medically. A guardian was placed for the woman when the hospital could not find a relative to care for her.

SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County deputy who wrote an incendiary Facebook comment has been fired, the sheriff’s office confirmed on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office proposed firing Jack Farmer after a comment he made in July. On a social media post about a person accused of stealing mail, Farmer wrote that people should “lynch mob” the suspect. Social media post allegedly made by a Bexar County sheriffs deputy calls for someone to be lynchedThe sheriff’s office determined that the Facebook comment was offensive and “incited violence" in a statement released on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office also fired Floyd Berry, who has been charged with three counts of official oppression in connection with inappropriate strip searches he is accused of conducting.