This Week in Texas Politics: Hearings, Harris County vote count, gas prices

FOX7's Rudy Koski and our panel of political experts take a look at the issues that dominated This Week in Texas Politics including border and power grid hearings and the vote count issues in Harris County.

Defending World Series Champs Atlanta Braves release spring training schedule

The defending 2021 World Series championship announced revisions to their spring training schedule a day after Major League Baseball and its players reached a new collective bargaining agreement.

MLB, players reach agreement, paving way to end months-long lockout

Major League Baseball’s acrimonious lockout ended when a divided players’ association voted to accept management’s offer to salvage a 162-game season that will start April 7.

Frenzy Part II? What to expect when MLB roster freeze lifts

Players voted Thursday to halt the sport's lockout, ending a 99-day work stoppage and an accompanying roster freeze that left Carlos Correa and Freddie Freeman among the 138 big league free agents in limbo.

MLB and the MLBPA reach tentative agreement on a new labor deal

Major League Baseball and its locked-out players have tentatively agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement, sources tell the Associated Press.

MLB cancels Opening Day, first two series after sides fail to reach lockout deal

Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, with Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before management’s deadline.

Derek Jeter steps down as Miami Marlins CEO

Derek Jeter announced a surprise departure from the Miami Marlins on Monday after 4 1/2 mostly unsuccessful years that didn't come close to matching his success as a player for the New York Yankees.

MLB: It's deadline day to save opening day, 162-game season schedule

Major League Baseball's lockout is now in its 89th day. Management says a deal must be reached by the end of Monday's negotiations to salvage a March 31 start to the regular season and a 162-game schedule.

MLB negotiations recessed, will resume Monday as deadline looms

The sides held a series of short and more frequent meetings that stretched into Sunday night before saying they would resume in the morning.

MLB says season could be shortened if no labor agreement is reached

Major League Baseball said Wednesday that the 2022 season will be shortened if no labor agreement has been reached by the end of Monday.

Another day runs off clock in MLB talks to save opening day

Another day ran off the clock on talks to salvage opening day when locked-out baseball players proposed what they considered a small move forward in drawn-out labor negotiations and management termed it a third straight step backward.

MLB lockout talks resume in Florida as season openers threatened

The lockout enters its 82nd day Monday as negotiations resume in Florida. MLB on Friday canceled spring training games from Feb. 26 through March 4.

MLB postpones 1st week of spring training amid lockout

Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout.

Jeremy Giambi’s cause of death was suicide, coroner’s report says

Former Major League Baseball player Jeremy Giambi died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s coroners report.

MLB Lockout: Spring training camps on hold as labor negotiations continue

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says spring training remains on hold because of a management lockout and his goal is to reach a labor contract that allows opening day as scheduled on March 31.

Trevor Bauer will not face criminal charges in assault investigation

Officials announced after a months-long investigation, Trevor Bauer will not face any criminal charges following allegations of assault.

MLB stops testing athletes for steroids amid lockout, AP sources say

Two people familiar with the sport’s Joint Drug Program tell The Associated Press that Major League Baseball has stopped testing players for steroids for the first time in nearly 20 years due to the expiration of the sport’s drug agreement.