DALLAS, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday afternoon addressed the state’s response to the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck until Floyd lost consciousness and died. Abbott strongly condemned Floyd’s death as police brutality and called it “horrific.”
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Texas football coach Tom Herman empathizes with black student-athletes and the double standard that he says fans have regarding them. Discussing race relations in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman on Monday, Herman said he knows that something as simple as being pulled over for making an illegal U-turn can be a very different experience
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UPDATE: The statewide Amber Alert was cancelled late Tuesday morning by Texas authorities after a body of a small child matching the missing boy’s description has been found earlier in the day in a garbage dumpster in Waco. Authorities said they were working to officially confirm the identity of the body found. No further details
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas entered the new month with summer camps, including sports camps, allowed to open as the state relaxed some of the rules put in place to control the spread of the coronavirus. Executive orders issued in mid-May allowed camps to begin reopening May 31, provided they follow social distancing guidelines. Texas
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted Monday afternoon that the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis black man, is “clearly police brutality.” “There is no legitimate law enforcement purpose for what we saw in George Floyd’s case. It was clearly police brutality and it was not conduct we expect of any officer. Now, the
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Texas rose by nearly 2,000 Sunday and there were another 24 deaths tied to the disease caused by coronavirus, according to health officials. There were at least 64,287 cases and 1,949 deaths, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported Sunday, an increase from 62,338
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EL PASO, Texas — Is El Paso really ready to continue reopening? State and local officials seem to disagree on that answer. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave El Paso County and the Amarillo area — two of the state’s biggest recent Covid-19 hot spots — a temporary reprieve from implementing Texas’ next phase of reopening.
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DALLAS, Texas — About 700 protesters took to the streets of downtown Dallas on Saturday afternoon in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police. The protests that had been largely peaceful took a turn come Saturday evening as protesters damaged several Dallas police squad cars and officers deployed
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AUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds of people in Austin gathered Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on his neck long past the point when he lost consciousness. After demonstrators blocked traffic on Interstate 35 over multiple hours on Saturday evening, police
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday evening he was activating the Texas National Guard “in response to protest violence” across the state. Thousands of protesters marched in Texas cities on Friday and Saturday, stirred to action after the death of Houston native George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, who died while in police
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Murder. Brutality. Reprehensible. Indefensible. Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a handcuffed black man who cried for help as an officer knelt on his neck, pinning him to the pavement for at least eight minutes. But some civil
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will soon allow outdoor pro sports events to have spectators, but the numbers will be strictly limited, under a new order Thursday from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Abbott revised a decision to let pro sports leagues host events without fans starting in June as part of the state’s move to reopen
Continue Reading MIDLAND, Texas — When police stopped a Texas man for an alleged traffic violation, the confrontation turned tense, videos of the incident show. Midland police officers stopped Tye Anders, 21, on May 16 for running a stop sign, the department said in a statement. What happened next left a family shaken, a young man on
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DALLAS, Texas — A woman managed to go into labor and give birth alone in a Texas jail cell without any corrections officers noticing until after she had delivered the child, a sheriff’s official said Thursday. The woman had the baby in a Fort Worth jail cell on May 17, according to Tarrant County Sheriff’s
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Joe Biden will close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention next month that was moved online over fears of the coronavirus. The announcement Thursday rounds out an unusual slate of big names that Texas Democrats have rounded up for their state convention. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Kamala Harris of California and
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials fighting to block widespread mail-in voting during the pandemic claimed victory after the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday that a lack of immunity to the coronavirus doesn’t qualify someone to cast a ballot by mail. The decision was unanimous by the Texas Supreme Court, which is stocked with nine Republican
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HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. officials cited the owners of a Southeast Texas chemical plant where November blasts and fires injured three workers and caused widespread damage to the surrounding community. The Nov. 27 blasts at the TPC Group plant in Port Neches, about 80 miles east of Houston, prompted officials to order the surrounding communities
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AMARILLO, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott and state and local health officials expressed confidence Wednesday that they have made major progress in containing a hot spot of the coronavirus in the Amarillo area, saying that the surge in state and federal resources that they sent to the region will be a model for how the
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Whataburger is making it easier for Texans to satisfy their burger cravings, reports ABC affiliate KSAT. The burger chain has announced delivery is now available via Whataburger’s app and on Whataburger.com. While delivery has been available through third-party delivery sites like Postmates and Favor, Whataburger says this is the first time meals
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(Editor’s note: It was not immediately clear if these latest re-openings would be subject to a delay of a week in El Paso as other recent re-openings have. ABC-7 is working to clarify whether El Paso will operate in tandem with the rest of the state.) AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation on Tuesday
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday afternoon that the Texas Department of State Health Services is distributing 15 additional cases of the antiviral drug remdesivir among seven El Paso hospitals to treat coronavirus patients. The total number of cases being distributed to Texas hospitals will now be up to 484. Last week, DSHS had
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AMARILLO, Texas — Mayor Ginger Nelson thought her year would be defined by a punch-in-the-gut cancer diagnosis in January. Then the pandemic came. Now the mayor of Amarillo is battling a rare form of blood cancer while coordinating her city’s response to Covid-19, cases of which spiked in recent weeks at a local food plant.
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AUSTIN, Texas — As Texas continues to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, health officials said Sunday that there were 839 new cases of the virus reported in the state for a total of 55,348. The true numbers are likely higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected and
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Officials in a Mexican border city are tightening checks on travellers coming from Texas, saying they fear U.S. visitors may be helping feed a spike in COVID-19 cases. Municipal and state officials in Matamoros, together with Mexico’s National Guard began setting up checkpoints Saturday at the three border crossings to
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Adrián Alonso Gama lived life on both sides of the border, until he got the coronavirus. On weekends the 37-year-old truck driver would stay at his parents’ home in Tijuana. Thanks to his U.S. green card, he lived in his own place in San Diego during the week, delivering beer and
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott says that Texas is working to have the college football season start on time, with at least some fans in attendance, as the state continues to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Once we get to college football season, our goal right now is to have college football season start as planned,
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EL PASO, Texas — Inked on skin and hashtagged on social media, the words “El Paso Strong” united city residents after a mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart last year. As Covid-19 took hold in El Paso, local government officials have tried to repurpose the slogan, much like “Don’t mess with Texas,” originally an
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas bars and bowling alleys reopened for the Memorial Day weekend as the state continues to gradually restart one of the world’s largest economies after it was ravaged by shutdowns caused by the coronavirus epidemic. The new standards don’t apply yet in El Paso and Amarillo, however, which have seen a
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Heading into the Memorial Day weekend, a study predicts some Southern U.S. locations are poised for sharp upticks in new Covid-19 cases. Populous areas of Texas, parts of Alabama and Tennessee, and the Miami area of Florida, will see rapid surges in new Covid-19 cases, according to a new outbreak predictions model.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The deceased suspect in Thursday’s shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas was a 20-year-old male named Adam Alsahli of Corpus Christi, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the ongoing investigation. Alsahli drove to an entrance at the naval station and shot a security forces member in
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