Millions of bees get loose after truck carrying 400 hives crashes in Texas: “Please remain indoors”

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, officials said.

Emergency officials in Orange County, Texas, shut down roads in the area Sunday morning and warned residents to stay in their homes while crews worked to unload the trailer and salvage as many hives as possible. The county is located east of Houston and borders Louisiana.

“Please remain indoors,” Orange County Emergency Services wrote on social media. “An 18 wheeler carrying beehives has turned over and there is a heavy presence of bees in the area.”

No bee stings or serious injuries were immediately reported. Officials haven’t identified the owner of the hives.

Christie Ray, who owns nearby Queen Bee Supply, said volunteers from three or four other beekeeping businesses in the area went to the crash scene Sunday to help.

“They just help each other, that’s what they do,” Ray said. “The beekeeping community is a great community.”

The company posted a video and multiple images from the scene, showing beekeepers working together to salvage the hives.

Beehives Truck Crash — A semitrailer carrying about 400 beehives toppled over, allowing millions of bees to escape into a rural neighborhood in Orange, Texas, on June 21, 2026.

Christie Ray/Queen Bee Supply via AP

A photojournalist from CBS affiliate KDFM also captured video despite being stung , the station reported.

Chris Moore, owner of Moore Honey, along with his son and several employees, joined the effort to help the bees, but he estimated that only about a quarter of the 408 hives will survive. It mostly depends on how many queens remain alive after the crash, he said.

The potential impact on a beekeeping business following a loss like this depends on the size of the apiary. Moore pointed out that the keeper is losing not only the hives but also the revenue they could be generating.

“It’s a big loss,” Moore said. “Any time you lose that many in one shot, it’s a big loss.”

It’s common for large beekeeping operations to move hives around the country to provide commercial pollination for agriculture in places like California and to follow blooming seasons throughout the South and the Midwest for honey production.

The hives that crashed Sunday had only traveled a few miles on a trip to North Dakota when the truck driver took a wrong turn and ended up in a neighborhood with narrow roads, Moore said. The driver was trying to navigate a tight corner when the trailer fell over.

Other local keepers have put out catch boxes to collect remaining strays, but it will likely take a while for the insects to clear out of the area, Moore said.

“We appreciate everyone’s patience and cooperation as crews work to safely resolve this incident,” Orange County Emergency Services wrote on social media.

In April, a crash involving a truck full of bees slowed interstate traffic near Knoxville, Tennessee.

Last year, about 14 million bees escaped after a tractor-trailer carrying more than 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over in northern Washington state.

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Senate passes bill to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill aimed at lowering costs, putting Congress on the brink of a rare bipartisan victory in President Donald Trump’s second term.

The vote was 85-5. Several senators missed the vote due to severe thunderstorms in the Washington area that led to a ground stop at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

The legislation, which would make it easier to build homes and slap limits on Wall Street investors’ buying up houses, now goes to the House, which hopes to vote on it in the next few days. Then, it would go to Trump’s desk to be signed into law.

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act would be a desperately needed win for Republicans, who have seen their 2026 midterm election prospects deteriorate throughout the year as voters believe Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress haven’t done enough to tackle the cost of living.

A mid-June poll by The Associated Press found that Trump’s overall approval rating is 37%, dragged down by the fact that just 33% said they approve of his handling of the economy. Other surveys have shown him getting low marks on handling the cost of living, the main issue that powered him to victory in 2024. And a June NBC News poll showed nearly 80% of U.S. voters believe the “American Dream” is harder to achieve than it was a generation ago.

The bill represents a tangible victory on a top affordability concern. The “four corners” deal reached last week among key committee chairs, which was blessed by party leaders, brought together an eclectic mix of lawmakers from all over the ideological spectrum. It was negotiated by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Reps. French Hill, R-Ark., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

The legislation would approve a series of funding and grant programs for constructing new homes. It would slash red tape and empower local governments to expedite reviews to build more housing. And a key section titled “Homes Are For People, Not Corporations” would restrict any “large institutional investor” from buying single-family homes.

The bill was stranded for months on Capitol Hill after the Senate passed a version in March and the House approved a different version in May. The final package came together after the Senate agreed to add a series of provisions sought by the House while dropping a provision the House objected to, which would have required large investors that construct or own at least 350 single-family homes to sell them after seven years.

There’s something in the bill for just about everyone to like.

Republicans have focused on the provisions to reduce mandatory regulations, with Hill calling the bill a “meaningful step toward increasing housing supply, improving affordability, and helping more Americans achieve homeownership.”

Democrats like Warren have celebrated the restraints on institutional investors, saying the bill is about “stopping private equity from buying up homes” and raising costs for consumers.

Trump had championed provisions to “ban large Wall Street investment firms” from “buying up in the thousands single-family homes,” as he put it in this year’s State of the Union speech.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle said the Trump administration is “proud to have worked alongside our partners in Congress to move this legislation forward that advances the President’s housing affordability agenda.”

To the frustration of some Republicans, the achievement has been overshadowed by Trump’s actions on other issues.

His on-again, off-again Iran deal has dominated headlines this week and sparked unusual backlash from within his own party. Capitol Hill is consumed by his recent moves that led to the expiration of the FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance program and his demand to stall his own nominee for intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, a key piece of the puzzle to revive the FISA law. There’s also considerable attention on a domestic drama about Trump’s costly — and so far failed — renovation plan to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.

Apart from his State of the Union comment on the investor provision, Trump had not been personally engaged in developing the bill, Republican lawmakers say, which caused the process to drag on for months before the negotiators resolved the disputes.

“I don’t think it would be a news flash to observe that the president hasn’t really been very hands-on in getting this bill across the finish line,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said one day before a deal was reached. “I had a whole meeting with him about it — a couple, three weeks ago. And he would like to see something passed, but to my knowledge, he hasn’t been on the telephone.”

“You’ll never get a bill — you gentlemen know this better than I do — that everybody loves and gives everybody an orgasm,” he told reporters. “You just gotta do the best you can.”

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On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Mets series preview

The Cubs swept the Mets at Wrigley Field in April and outscored them 18-7 in the three games.

Perhaps seeing the Mets again can get the Cubs back on a winning track.

For more on the Mets, here’s Chris McShane, manager of our SB Nation Mets site Amazin’ Avenue.

The 2026 Mets are an unmitigated disaster. When they played the Cubs at Wrigley earlier this season, they were in the midst of their twelve-game losing streak, and the best thing I can say about them is that they’ve been somewhat better than that in the two months since that streak ended. Still, they haven’t done nearly enough to climb out of the hole they dug. Injuries to Juan Soto, Francisco Lindor, and Clay Holmes have played a significant part in the team’s extremely underwhelming performance, but it’s pretty clear that the roster that David Stearns built for the 2026 season — one that cost well over $300 million — is deeply flawed.

Things might not have been perfect if the Mets kept all of the big players they chose to move on from following the 2025 season, but it’s very hard not to dwell on the fact that the front office was very happy to let Pete Alonso walk and had no viable plan for replacing him. At the time of this writing, his 17 home runs and 119 wRC+ would have him tied for the team lead in home runs and second in wRC+ if he were still with the Mets. Did the Mets avoid some ugly years at the end of a long-term contract for Alonso? Sure. But it’s hard to give a damn about that when the team is owned by one of the richest people on the planet, one who happens to be building a casino in his team’s parking lot to get even richer.

As for this series, I can tell you that the Mets’ lineup can look functional in any given game, but when they get off to a slow start, they tend to take some of the weakest at-bats you’ve ever seen and go down silently. Of the four starting pitchers the Cubs will face, Nolan McLean and Sean Manaea are the better two at the moment. Both have had struggles at different points of this season but have been better of late. Kodai Senga, however, has been awful outside of his first two starts of the season, and Freddy Peralta is coming off the worst start of his career, one that left him with a 4.83 ERA that feels like the cherry on top of the Mets’ horrendous offseason.

The Cubs are two losses away from 200 against the Mets at New York, where they have won 186 and tied one, for a winning percentage of .484.

They had percentages of .556 (10-8) at the Polo Grounds and .470 (146-165-1) at Shea Stadium. At Citi Field, they are .537 (29-25), but .400 (4-6) since 2023. Last year, they lost two of three.

Their last sweep visiting the Mets was three games in 2022. Other recent sweeps were three games in 2019, four in 2018 and three in 2015.

The Cubs were swept in four games in 2016. In 2021, they lost three, then won the fourth.

In all 783 games between the teams, the Cubs have outscored the Mets by just four runs, 3,383-3,379. They lead the rivalry 402-379, with two ties.

(Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)

Probable pitching matchups

Monday: Shōta Imanaga, LHP (4-6, 4.26 ERA, 1.062 WHIP, 4.58 FIP) vs. Kodai Senga, RHP (0-5, 9.00 ERA, 1.875 WHIP, 6.81 FIP)

Tuesday: Edward Cabrera, RHP (4-4, 5.21 ERA, 1.396 WHIP, 5.15 FIP) vs. Nolan McLean, RHP (4-4, 3.67 ERA, 1.092 WHIP, 3.50 FIP)

Wednesday: Javier Assad, RHP (5-1, 3.89 ERA, 1.000 WHIP, 4.42 FIP) vs. Sean Manaea, LHP (1-2, 4.64 ERA, 1.344 WHIP, 3.75 FIP)

Thursday: TBD vs. Freddy Peralta, RHP (5-6, 4.83 ERA, 1.389 WHIP, 4.32 FIP)

NOTE: At the time this series preview posted, the Cubs did not have a starter listed for Thursday’s series finale. It would be Ben Brown’s turn, but it’s possible the team might activate Matthew Boyd from the injured list — he last pitched Saturday in a rehab start for Triple-A Iowa, so he’d be on four days’ rest — and save Brown to open the series in Milwaukee on Friday. As always, we await developments.

Monday: 6:10 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network, also streaming on Peacock (outside the Cubs and Mets market territories)

Tuesday: 6:10 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network

Wednesday: 6:10 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network

Thursday: 6:10 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network

The Cubs have won six of their last nine, which is pretty good (especially after that 7-22 slide!). Meanwhile, the Mets are 5-7 in their last 12 games.

The Mets, though, are better at home (18-18) than on the road (16-25). And several of the pitching matchups here appear to favor the Cubs.

The Cubs really need to keep stacking series wins so I’ll say they will do that and win three of four.

The Cubs head to Milwaukee for a three-game divisional matchup with the Brewers beginning Friday evening.

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Ella Langley’s ‘The Dandelion Tour’ to stop at Resch Center

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ASHWAUBENON (GREEN BAY) — Rising country music star Ella Langley is extending her sold-out ‘The Dandelion Tour’.

She’s adding a stop at the Resch Center, where she’ll kick off the new leg of the tour.

The show is set for Thursday, August 20 at 7 p.m.

Special guests on tour include ERNEST and Laci Kaye Booth.

Langley is coming off a sweep at the ACM Awards, where she won all seven awards she was nominated for.

Her No. 1 and platinum-certified album ‘Dandelion’ has produced two of the year’s biggest country records: the history-making 4X platinum single ‘Choosin’ Texas’ and ‘Be Her’.

Tickets to ‘The Dandelion Tour’ will be available via pre-sale starting Thursday, June 25.

Fans can register to access pre-sale tickets here.

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General on-sale begins Friday, June 26 at 10 a.m. through the Resch Center website, by phone at 920-494-3401 or in person at the TicketStar box office at the Resch Center.

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