AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that 2 million Houston voters can’t receive unsolicited mail ballot applications from local elections officials for November’s election. The Texas Supreme Court decision Wednesday is the latest defeat in a string of losses for Democrats whose efforts to change Texas voting laws during the coronavirus pandemic
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WOLFE CITY, Texas — A Texas police officer stands charged with murder in the shooting of a 31-year-old Black man after a preliminary investigation determined his actions were unreasonable, authorities said. Wolfe City officer Shaun Lucas responded to a call about a possible fight after 8 p.m. Saturday, just north of the city center, the
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott teased in a tweet Monday that he would soon allow “more openings” of Texas businesses, setting off speculation that he will allow bars to reopen a second time because he ended the message with the word “Cheers!” and included an image of two beer mugs clinking. Abbott wrote in the tweet that
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is accused by seven of his most senior aides of bribery and abuse of office, will not resign his post as the state’s top lawyer, he said Monday. The statement comes after a Republican Texas congressman became the most prominent member of his party to call for the
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HOUSTON, Texas — The Houston Fire Department said three workers were killed when a stairwell collapsed inside a high-rise building under construction in Houston. The fire department said one worker who was injured in Monday’s collapse was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition. The agency said its firefighters were waiting for
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash, the top federal prosecutor for a vast region that extends from El Paso to Austin, announced Monday that he is stepping down at week’s end. “This Friday—eight years to the day after I first joined the Department of Justice—I will step
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AUSTIN, Texas — Accusations that Texas’ attorney general engaged in crimes including bribery and abuse of office “raise serious concerns,” Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday. In a single-page letter, seven senior lawyers in the AG’s office wrote that they reported their boss, Ken Paxton, to “the appropriate (federal) law enforcement authority” for potentially breaking the law “in his
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas — Baker Mayfield and Myles Garrett each had a homecoming gift waiting when Cleveland visited Dallas in their home state Sunday. For Mayfield, it was a porous Cowboys pass defense that was poor against the run this time as well. For Garrett, it was an undrafted rookie right tackle who was overmatched against
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — A group of top aides for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking federal law enforcement to investigate their boss, the state’s top lawyer, for possible crimes that include bribery and abuse of office, ABC affiliate KVUE and the Austin American-Statesman newspaper reported Saturday. A letter sent to the agency’s human resources director said the
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas health officials on Saturday reported 3,346 newly reported coronavirus cases and 3,660 previous cases that had been unreported for a total increase of 7,006 cases. The Texas health department reported 763,010 total cases and 15,992 deaths due to Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus. The department on Friday had reported 756,004 cases
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AUSTIN, Texas — TCU quarterback Max Duggan ran for the go-ahead score with 4 minutes left and the Horned Frogs’ defense made it stand with a goal-line fumble recovery to stun No. 9 Texas 33-31 Saturday. The sloppy game had 26 penalties and ended when TCU purposely took a safety as time ran out. Duggan finished
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HOUSTON, Texas — NASA’s first new space potty in decades — a $23 million titanium toilet better suited for women — is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before eventually flying to the moon. It’s packed inside a cargo ship set to blast off late Thursday from Wallops Island, Virginia. Barely 100
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott says the number of locations where Texas voters can drop off their mail-in ballots has been reduced to ensure poll security. There will be no more than one drop-off location per county under Abbott’s proclamation issued on Thursday. Poll watchers may observe in-person ballot deliveries at each location. Harris
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CANUTILLO, Texas — Anthony Lopez-Waste, a Canutillo High School history teacher, has been named the 2021 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year. Lopez-Waste was named Teacher of the Year by the Texas Association of School Administrators during their virtual convention. The award is the state’s highest honor for middle and high school teachers. “As a
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Opinion written by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)… When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on September 18th, she left a vacancy on the Supreme Court just 46 days before one of the most consequential presidential elections in our nation’s history. This past weekend, President Donald Trump nominated an eminently qualified judge — Amy Coney
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Shaken up by a scandal before the virus outbreak shrunk the season, the Houston Astros barely played well enough to reach the playoffs — with the rest of baseball actively rooting against them. Well, they’re not ready to leave yet. Carlos Correa hit a two-out, tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning for
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas — Major League Baseball has announced that fans will be able to purchase a limited number of tickets to the National League Championship Series and World Series at the new Globe Life Field Arlington. MLB will make approximately 11,500 tickets available for each game with 10,550 fans spread throughout the ballpark and 950
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — The number of newly reported cases of the coronavirus in Texas took a jump Wednesday as state health officials reported 5,335 new cases, 40% more than the 3,812 cases reported Tuesday. That raised the total Texas caseload since the state began coronavirus tracking in March to 748,767. Of those, 69,767 cases were
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FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines says it will furlough 19,000 workers on Thursday because negotiations over more federal help for airlines have failed to produce a deal. U.S. passenger airlines and their labor unions are lobbying for another $25 billion in taxpayer money to pay workers for six more months, through next March. But
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials said Tuesday that water samples taken earlier this year from a Houston-area community did not raise concerns before the detection of a brain-eating amoeba, which doctors believe killed a 6-year-old boy. Residents of Lake Jackson are likely to remain under orders to boil water
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EDMONTON, Alberta — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the champions of bubble hockey. Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal, and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 to win the Stanley Cup and finish off the NHL playoffs staged in quarantine during the pandemic. The clock hitting zeros in an empty arena set off
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DALLAS, Texas — The Dallas secondary committed the team’s first four penalties, blew several assignments for the second consecutive week and gave up Russell Wilson’s fifth touchdown pass for the go-ahead score in the final two minutes in Seattle. The injury-challenged unit is the biggest of several questions for the 1-2 Cowboys, who play the
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas sheriff has been indicted on charges accusing him of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death in custody of a Black man, Javier Ambler, that was filmed by a police reality TV series “Live PD.” Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody was booked into his own jail Monday
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas woman says she was fired by a Whataburger in Fort Worth for wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask to work, in what is the latest in a string of penalties handed down by employers for public displays of support for the social justice movement. Similar cases are popping
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — There were 1,292 newly reported coronavirus cases in Texas on Sunday and 37 additional deaths due to Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, according to state health officials. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported 735,132 coronavirus cases and 15,522 deaths, up from 733,438 and 15,485 deaths recorded as of Saturday. The
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SEATTLE, Washington — Russell Wilson threw for 315 yards and five touchdowns without an interception as the Seattle Seahawks edged the Dallas Cowboys 38-31. Wilson’s five touchdown passes set a record for most scoring passes in the first three games of a season with 14. Patrick Mahomes threw for 13 TDs in his MVP season of 2018.
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FRISCO, Texas — Mike McCarthy watched as a kid when the customers in the bar his dad owned would lose money on the two poker machines. So ask him to characterize the fake punts and risky fourth-down try in his first two games as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and there’s one word McCarthy won’t
Continue Reading EDMONTON, Alberta — The Dallas Stars have earned themselves at least two more days in the Edmonton bubble. The Stars have forced a Game 6 in the Stanley Cup finals by getting a goal from Corey Perry in double-overtime to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-2. Anton Khudobin made 39 saves and Perry prolonged the
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LUBBOCK, Texas — Sam Ehlinger threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Joshua Moore in overtime, sending No. 8 Texas to a wild 63-56 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday that saw the Longhorns rally with two touchdowns in the final 3 minutes of regulation. Moore’s second touchdown catch came with 40 seconds left and Ehlinger’s
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas — Ryan Pressly had no interest in waiting to see if the Astros would get the help they needed to clinch the last spot in the expanded American League playoffs after the Houston reliever couldn’t finish it himself when he was a strike away. The Los Angeles Dodgers pitched in anyway by beating
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