HOUSTON, Texas — A former Houston police captain charged with running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head over a voter fraud conspiracy theory did not appear in court Thursday. Mark Aguirre, 63, was expected to make his first court appearance in Harris County. Instead, attorney Terry Yates said Aguirre
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texans can expect to see “widespread distribution” of Covid-19 vaccines by March to recipients beyond the front-line health care workers who are currently receiving them, including teachers and senior citizens, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday. “There will be multiple vaccines available to us by the time we get to March, and we’ll
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A man has been arrested in connection with the “gruesome” slaying and dismemberment of a San Antonio woman, ABC affiliate KSAT reported Thursday. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Rafael Castillo, 26, was arrested in Brownsville, Texas on Wednesday and is a suspect in the murder of Nicole Perry. On Nov. 19,
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GRAPEVINE, Texas — Jennifer Mendoza, of Grapevine gave birth to her fourth child in October. A few days after coming home from the hospital with her healthy baby girl, Mendoza developed breathing problems. Mendoza returned to the emergency room and subsequently tested positive for Covid-19. She never went home. Mendoza died on Dec. 3, her
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — Married for 30 years, they died together from Covid-19 complications sharing one final embrace — holding each other’s hands and the hands of their children. Paul Blackwell, 62, and Rose Mary Blackwell, 65, passed away on Sunday after two weeks in intensive care and several days on ventilators at Harris Methodist
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HOUSTON, Texas — A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday with running a man off the road and pointing a gun to his head two weeks before the election as part of a baseless voter fraud conspiracy theory, the Harris County district attorney said in a statement. Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was paid more
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FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — A dedicated dad who’s been dancing outside Cook Children’s Hospital while his son gets chemotherapy, is getting some recognition from people around the world, including celebrities. Stars Will Smith and Jason Derulo surprised Aiden Yielding and his dad, Chuck with a virtual visit that was posted on Snapchat. The 14-year-old
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, alleging that the company has stifled competition and enjoys “monopolistic power.” The complaint is the latest attack on the search giant and its dominance in online advertising. It alleges that Google abuses its ownership of digital ad marketplaces to unfairly enrich itself at
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ALBANY, Texas — Authorities have charged a Mexican national with trying to smuggle a group of 19 migrants from El Paso to Dallas in a pickup truck. The Shackelford County Sheriff’s Office said Albany police pulled over 34-year-old Francisco Alfredo Lopez-Cubillas in his truck on suspicion of drunk driving. During the traffic stop on Monday,
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EDINBURG, Texas — A Texas high school football player who ran onto the field and blindsided a referee who had ejected him from a game has now learned that the attack will cost him the rest of his high school athletic career. Senior defensive lineman Emmanuel Duron of Edinburg High School, who faces assault charges
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PEARLAND, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Tuesday morning for a 1-year-old after the boy’s mother reportedly made threatening statements to harm herself and the young child, ABC affiliate KTRK reports. The alert was has been issued for 1-year-old Jaivan Simpson who was taken Monday night in Pearland, which is near Houston. According
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AUSTIN, Texas — The first doses of a Covid-19 vaccine began arriving arriving throughout the U.S. on Monday including in Texas, with health care workers first in line to receive the shots. The Texas Department of State Health Services said 19,500 doses of the vaccine were headed Monday to four sites in Texas: MD Anderson Cancer Center
Continue Reading Silicon Valley has been the epicenter of the tech industry for decades, starting in 1938 when Bill Hewlett and David Packard started tinkering in a Palo Alto garage. But that may be changing. Perhaps the most striking evidence of that: A descendant of the company they founded, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will move its headquarters to
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched into space Sunday, successfully deploying a satellite for radio provider SiriusXM. Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida’s Brevard County at 12:30 p.m. ET, according to NASA. It marks the the rocket’s 25th flight this year, NASA said. About 10 minutes
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DALLAS, Texas — Country music legend Charley Pride died Saturday at age 86, a representative for the singer announced. Pride died in Dallas of complications from Covid-19, the release said. Born on March 18, 1934, in Sledge, Mississippi, the singer was a sharecropper’s son who rose to become country music’s first black superstar. His baritone
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BELLS, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued early Saturday morning for a child believed to have been abducted who is in grave or immediate danger, according to the Texas Dept. of Public Safety. Police are looking for 6-year-old Kobie Shay Holiman. ABC affiliate KTRK reports Holiman is a white girl, 3-feet 8-inches tall,
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — In an order late Friday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – and supported by President Donald Trump – seeking to overturn presidential election results in four key battleground states. The high court said the state of Texas lacked standing to file the
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Texas state GOP chairman floated the the far-fetched possibility of secession Friday night for ‘law-abiding states’ after a U.S. Supreme Court defeat. The court officially put to rest a brazen eleventh-hour attempt by the state of Texas and Republican allies of President Donald Trump to throw out millions of votes in four states and overturn
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Oracle is joining the growing exodus from Silicon Valley to Texas. The company will move its corporate headquarters to the state’s capital, Austin, it said Friday. It also instituted a more flexible work policy for its employees, who can choose their office location or continue to work from home. “We believe these
Continue Reading TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government on Thursday at the Federal Correctional Center in Indiana, according to a pool report. Bernard, 40, was one of five street gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd Bagley — who were youth ministers — in 1999. The gunman, Christopher
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas public school students will still take the STAAR test this spring, but the state will not rate schools and districts based on their results, the Texas Education Agency announced Thursday. The announcement comes as districts report alarming numbers of students failing at least one class this fall and thousands of students
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Each of the four battleground states targeted by a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Donald Trump’s election defeat issued blistering briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, with Pennsylvania officials going so far as to call the effort a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.” The court filings from Georgia,
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump and 17 Republican attorneys general are supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s audacious legal gambit at the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election. But some influential Republicans are speaking out — in the states, on Capitol Hill and at the Supreme Court — opposing the effort, highlighting
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas state official who has been critical of measures ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott in efforts to slow the coronavirus pandemic says he has tested positive for the virus. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was among an estimated 200 people who rallied outside Abbott’s home in October to protest his pandemic
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump personally asked Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas if he would argue a long-shot election lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results in four battleground states, should the U.S. Supreme Court agree to take it up, two sources said Wednesday. Trump inquired on Tuesday whether Cruz would argue the
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AUSTIN, Texas — For a second day this week, hospitalizations of people with the coronavirus in Texas topped 9,000, state health officials said Wednesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services said 9,053 were hospitalized Wednesday. The state reported 9,028 hospitalizations the day before. Last week marked the first time Texas surpassed a daily count of 9,000 hospitalizations
Continue Reading STARR COUNTY, Texas — A 4-year-old Texas boy was rescued after first responders worked hours to chisel him out of an 8-inch wide water well. “Through prayers and actions from everyone involved a little boy lives today,” said Starr County Sheriff Rene “Orta” Fuentes in a post on social media Wednesday. Authorities responded to an
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WASHINGTON, DC — An attorney representing President Donald Trump, John Eastman, is known for recently pushing a racist conspiracy theory — that Trump himself later amplified — claiming Vice President-elect Kamala Harris might not be eligible for the role because her parents were immigrants. Eastman wrote the Newsweek column that was widely discredited earlier this
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BOCA CHICA, Texas — A giant experimental rocket built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully soared eight miles above the company’s testing facilities in South Texas on Wednesday and came back down as planned, before crashing into the ground in an enormous plume of flames and smoke. The hulking rocket didn’t have anyone onboard. It was
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — The Salvation Army of North Texas says with less than three weeks until Christmas, they are in urgent need of volunteers. Due to Covid-19, turnout has been very low this year. Inside the Salvation Army’s Christmas Warehouse in Dallas, there are piles of Angel Tree donations ready to be delivered to
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