HOUSTON, Texas — The law enforcement officers who evicted a young Houston father and his family days later set up a GoFundMe that has raised more than $180,000 to help him and other families facing eviction. Israel Rodriguez, 24, his wife and two children, ages 4 and 20 months, were evicted from their Houston apartment
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DALLAS, Texas — A guy walks into a bar, which still isn’t allowed in Texas. But Jeff Brightwell owns this bar. Two months into an indefinite shutdown, he’s just checking on the place — the tables six feet apart, the “Covid 19 House Rules” sign instructing drinkers not to mingle. All the safeguards that didn’t
Continue Reading TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — The wake generated by other boats caused five boats to sink on a Texas lake during a boat parade in support of President Donald Trump, according to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. The weather on Lake Travis, which is west of Austin, was calm Saturday, but the large number of boats
Continue Reading TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — Several boats taking part in a Trump support parade on Lake Travis in Texas sunk on Saturday, officials said. Kristen Dark, the senior public information officer for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, said officials responded to “many emergency calls for boats in distress” during the parade and confirmed that “several boats
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AUSTIN, Texas — An assistant attorney general in Texas who ran for Congress this year has lost his job after reports surfaced showing social media posts he had made supporting conspiracy theories and touting bigoted views. Nick Moutos regularly described Black Lives Matter protesters as “terrorists” and promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory on Twitter. He
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AUSTIN, Texas — Health officials in Texas on Saturday reported 4,456 new coronavirus cases in the state and 177 additional deaths due to Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus. Texas has reported nearly 1,000 coronavirus deaths in the last week, according to state data. There are now a reported 635,315 total cases and 13,408 deaths,
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EL PASO, Texas — It was a long journey to get to this point, but Saturday night college football returned to the Sun Bowl. The UTEP Miners kicked off the season and got its first win against the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, an FCS school out of the Southland Conference. The final score was 24-14.
Continue Reading FORT HOOD, Texas — The Navajo Nation says it’s “deeply disturbed” by a recent series of deaths at Fort Hood, Texas, after learning one of its own died earlier this week. Pvt. Corlton Chee of Pinehill, New Mexico, collapsed during a training exercise on August 28, according to a statement from Fort Hood, and died
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, saying the much-criticized practice skirted “fundamental humanitarian protections.” U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the use of hotels as long-term detention spaces violates a two-decade-old settlement governing the
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EL PASO, Texas — Twelve people died and another 55 were hurt last Labor Day weekend along Texas roads due to drunk driving. The Texas Department of Transportation and the Department of Public Safety have teamed up to lower those numbers.. “You could go to jail. That is one of the consequences for making a
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FORT HOOD, Texas — A soldier from New Mexico died this week after collapsing during a training exercise at Fort Hood in Texas, U.S. Army officials said Friday. According to data obtained by the Associated Press from Fort Hood officials, this is the 28th soldier at the central Texas Army base to die this year.
Continue Reading AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas surpassed 13,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths Thursday as hospitalizations continued falling to the lowest levels since June. State health officials reported nearly 3,900 new cases and 221 additional deaths blamed on Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Hospitalized patients were just over 4,000. In El Paso on Thursday, there were eight new coronavirus-related
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — Stolen almost two decades ago from an ancient abbey in northeastern Italy, a trafficked 19th century art piece is making its way back home. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency recovered a 19th century painting Wednesday looted from the Abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis in Sesto al Reghena, Italy, in
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HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas — Authorities said a truck driver and his passenger were killed when three semi-trucks were involved in a chain-reaction crash early Thursday morning crash along Interstate-10 in Hudspeth County. That deadly crash occurred around midnight along I-10 at mile marker 67, about two miles west of Ft. Handcock. Texas Highway Patrol troopers
Continue Reading (Editor’s note: To apply for rental assistance in El Paso, click here.) AUSTIN, Texas — The federal government announced a nationwide eviction moratorium this week that is designed to protect renters from losing their homes until the end of the year. The order could keep millions of Texans from being evicted. Housing advocates had been
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Hundreds of migrant children have been held in hotels, in El Paso and throughout Texas and the southern U.S., and guarded by government contractors in recent months as part of a secretive new system that advocates warn puts kids in danger. Immigrant and civil rights groups accuse the U.S. government of
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HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas — A semi-truck that caught fire late Wednesday night backed up traffic for motorists traveling along a portion of Interstate 10 through Hudspeth County. The truck caught fire along I-10 westbound near McNary after one or more rear tires apparently blew. Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West told ABC-7 there were no deaths
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A San Antonio jogger who was arrested and detained by police last week says he was “guilty before proven innocent” when police took in the wrong man. Charges have since been dropped against Mathias Ometu. Ometu, a 33-year-old Black man, was jogging on August 25, witnesses said, as officers searched for
Continue Reading AUSTIN, TEXAS — The number of new confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continued to trend lower in Texas, as did the number of related deaths, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported Wednesday. At least 4,157 new confirmed coronavirus cases were reported Wednesday, an increase of 41 from Tuesday but down 575 from
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Twenty-month-old Israel Rodriguez’s tiny head peeked over the second-story Houston apartment railing. His 4-year-old brother, Fabian, emerged next to him, holding a package of toilet paper and an empty baby bottle. Moments earlier, Deputy Bennie Gant of the Harris County Constable’s Office had knocked on their door to evict them and their
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ATLANTA, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a statewide Amber Alert on Tuesday evening for two missing east Texas children believed to be abducted. According to ABC affiliate WFAA, officials are searching for 1-year-old Tru Speratos. She stands 2’6 and weighs 19 pounds. She has blonde hair, blue eyes and was last
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FORT HOOD, Texas — The U.S. Army announced Tuesday that it is removing Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt from his post as commander of Fort Hood and is now denying his previously delayed transfer to assume command of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss. The announcement came as officials announced a new “in-depth investigation into the
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DALLAS, Texas — Dallas police officers found the bodies of three people in an apartment Monday after a man reportedly called and said he had killed his wife and two children. Deputy Chief Reuben Ramirez said James Webb, 57, was taken into custody by officers who arrived at the scene after saying he had “killed
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AUSTIN, Texas — A dozen Texas Senate members are re-upping their request for a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood military base after a soldier was found dead last week, becoming at least the ninth person stationed at the Killeen post to have been found dead this year, according to officials and media reports. The body
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ODESSA, Texas — Family members of two of the deceased Odessa mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages. The families of 15-year-old Leilah Hernandez and 40-year-old Joseph Griffin are filing a civil lawsuit against Anthony Braziel, from
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AUSTIN, Texas – The Lotto Texas jackpot continues to grow, giving Texas lottery players a chance for the game’s largest prize in more than a decade. With no jackpot-winning ticket sold on Aug. 29, the game’s jackpot has grown to an estimated annuitized $36.75 million for the drawing on Sept. 2. This is Lotto Texas’
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HOUSTON, Texas — Major League Baseball postponed Sunday’s scheduled game between the Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros “out of an abundance of caution” following a positive Covid-19 test in the Athletics’ organization. MLB said additional testing and contact tracing will be conducted. The game was set to be played at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
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ORANGE, Texas — The destructive storm surge has receded, and the cleanup has begun from Hurricane Laura that roared ashore early Thursday, packing 150 mph winds. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to 16 deaths Saturday, with more than half of those killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from the unsafe operation of
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jogging, witnesses said, as officers searched for a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call. Video of the incident posted to social media shows officers forcefully shoving the man into a police vehicle as he
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas – A new amendment approved this week by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is opening a new path for bars to reopen as restaurants, according to ABC affiliate KSAT. The amendment to Rule 33.5 will allow bars to more easily qualify for a food and beverage certificate by removing certain requirements that make obtaining the certificate
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