Bomb scares and phony pizza deliveries: Democrats who fled Texas grapple with security threats

The Texas Democratic lawmakers who decamped to Illinois to block a redistricting effort in their state faced threats of arrest and criminal charges if they didn’t return home. But as their time away from the state dragged on, the threats grew more worrisome. A group of state legislators who stayed at a hotel in St. Charles, a suburb outside of Chicago, endured two b