FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton has been indicted on a felony charge of injury to a child after his teenage daughter accused him of beating her. A Tarrant County grand jury indicted the 38-year-old Hamilton on Monday. He remains free on $30,000 bond after he turned himself in to
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A statewide Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for a missing Texas girl who police believe is in “grave or immediate danger.” San Antonio police said they were searching for 12-year-old Amisty Monrreal, who disappeared around midnight from San Antonio. Monrreal is 5 feet tall and is 90 pounds with brown hair and
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AUSTIN, Texas — With more than 9,300 cases reported in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced plans to increase testing and face mask production in response to the growing coronavirus outbreak. He said Texas will ramp up testing with the help of drive-thru sites at Walgreens drug stores in various locations across the state.
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VAN HORN, Texas — Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is planning to have workers travel across country from coronavirus-plagued Washington State to a west Texas area that has yet to have any confirmed cases. The company’s plan is to do additional launch testing of a space tourism rocket in
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AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court sided Tuesday with Texas in allowing it to ban most abortions while the state is under an emergency order that limits non-essential surgeries during the coronavirus pandemic. A panel of judges at the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision by a lower court that
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday announced the closure of all state parks and historic sites – including El Paso’s Franklin Mountains State Park. “We believe this is the best course of action right now in order to meet the health and safety expectations the state has set out for
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AUSTIN, Texas — With over 7,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that 30 patients from a Texas City nursing home who tested positive were receiving experimental treatment with a malaria drug. Abbott said the patients are “being tested with the hydroxychloroquine to determine whether or not it will be
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LUBBOCK, Texas — The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents met during a special teleconference meeting Monday afternoon. This meeting came as the entire Tech system and all of its campuses, including Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, were closed for normal operations in an attempt to help stop the spread of
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Judging by the numbers, New Mexico is doing well when it comes to social distancing, while Texas not as much. President Donald Trump this past week was quick to point out that some states are doing better than others. “Some states they stay in better,” the President said. “They are
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ORANGE, Texas — State troopers started stopping and screening travelers entering Southeast Texas from Louisiana on Sunday, in accordance with an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbot. Troopers stopped vehicles at a visitors center on Interstate 10 near Orange, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Houston, and required travelers to complete a travel form,
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has seen an increase of 781 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, up to at least 6,110, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services on Saturday. It marks a case increase of about 15% over Friday. At least 105 people have died from the virus in the
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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 8-year-old girl and her mother from New Braunfels, a city near San Antonio. A statewide Amber Alert was issued Saturday morning after the disappearance of Kiley Marie Diaz, 8, and her mother, Alyssa Jeanice Lopez, 29. Both were last seen
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AUSTIN, Texas — With 5,478 Texans having tested positive for coronavirus as of Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott addressed how medical facilities were handling an influx of patients as 827 critically ill people were hospitalized around the state. Abbott said Texas has doubled its number of available hospital beds in the past two weeks. But hospital officials noted not
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DALLAS, Texas — The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the lives of many Texans. “Texas Together: A Coronavirus Conversation” brought together experts from across the state to discuss your questions and concerns on Thursday evening. The goal of the one-hour special “Texas Together” was to focus on the significant issues Texans are facing as coronavirus —
Continue Reading BOSTON, Massachusetts — The cornavirus pandemic has spread rapidly, with 100,000 additional confirmed cases in the U.S. this past week alone, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Part of the U.S. and the global community have been trying to combat this spread of the novel coronavirus is by instituting measures such as social distancing, travel restrictions, school closures, closure
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. unemployment claims hit 6.6 million — another record high — as layoffs accelerate in face of coronavirus. The bleak news released Thursday by U.S. Department of Labor of 6.6 million new unemployment claims comes on top of 3.3 million last week. The virus outbreak has now thrown nearly 10 million Americans
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — More than two dozen University of Texas students have tested positive for the coronavirus after taking a spring break trip to Mexico, public health officials said. A group of about 70 people who are in their 20s took a chartered plane to Cabo San Lucas about 10 days ago, the Austin Public
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — An 18-wheel big-rig crashed and caught fire early Wednesday in Dallas County while carrying some precious cargo: toilet paper. It happened around 4 a.m. along Interstate 20 westbound. The driver and his dog were not hurt, but the truck became engulfed in flames – burning thousands of rolls toilet paper along with
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HOUSTON, Texas — A third scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate was delayed Wednesday following the spread of the coronavirus in the state. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a 60-day delay of Fabian Hernandez’s scheduled April 23 execution. Unlike the two executions that were ordered delayed last month because of COVID-19,
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — As the novel coronavirus continues to spread in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered an end to non-essential business and activities statewide through April 30 as the latest effort to combat the pandemic, which as of Tuesday claimed 41 lives in the Lone Star state. The new executive order, which goes into effect at 12:01
Continue Reading Jimmy Wynn, the diminutive Houston slugger whose monster shots in the 1960s and ’70s earned him the popular nickname “The Toy Cannon,” has died. He was 78. The Astros said the three-time All-Star outfielder died Thursday in Houston, but did not provide further details. Just 5-foot-9, Wynn was packed with power. He hit more than
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Federal judges on Monday temporarily blocked efforts in Texas and Alabama to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic, handing Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers a victory as clinics across the U.S. filed lawsuits to stop states from trying to shutter them during the outbreak. A new Ohio order is also unconstitutional
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — Four more people in Texas with Covid-19 have died, as the number of people with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus swelled to nearly 2,900, the state health department said Monday. The reported fatalities were at 38 on Monday, up by four from Sunday while the number of diagnosed cases rose
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday ratcheted up travel restrictions into Texas during the coronavirus pandemic, while announcing the state’s first pop-up hospital to deal with the crisis. He also said he was moving to “stop the release of dangerous felons” amid the outbreak. Texas health officials reported that the state now has 2,552
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas National Guard will help with drive-thru testing for coronavirus in the state. Gov. Greg Abbott announced the deployment of three National Guard Joint Task Force Brigades. It comes as at least 27 people in Texas have now died while more than 2,000 have tested positive, the Texas Department of State
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SEATTLE, Washington — The novel coronavirus could kill up to 81,000 people across the United States before it subsides this summer, according to a Reuters news agency report citing a health research center analysis. The University of Washington School of Medicine believes the coronavirus will hit its peak for Texas and New Mexico in late April,
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EL PASO, Texas — Three UTEP employees who recently tested positive for the coronavirus attended the Conference USA basketball tournament. UTEP says the employees returned from an out of town event on March 12. The tournament was held at The Star in Frisco. Both the UTEP women’s and men’s teams each played their first round
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(Editor’s note: Scroll down in this article to read the entire legal opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General on this topic.) AUSTIN, Texas — In some parts of the U.S., authorities say gun shops aren’t essential businesses and should close during stay-at-home orders meant to slow the coronavirus. In other places, officials are stopping
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EL PASO, Texas — An upgraded magnitude 5.0 earthquake shook the Big Bend area of western Texas on Thursday morning, and was also widely felt throughout the El Paso area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was centered in far eastern Culbertson County, which is two counties east of El Paso County, and happened
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has imposed quarantines on travelers from the New York City area, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., and put similar restrictions on people arriving from nearby New Orleans as the number of cases there surges dramatically. Abbott ordered the moves Thursday as Texas surpassed 1,400
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