EL PASO, Texas– Patients under Texas’ Compassionate Use Program will be able to start filling their cannabis prescriptions on Feb. 22, 2022. Texas’ leading medical cannabis provider, Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, will launch a new temporary prescription pick-up site for its medical cannabis. The dispensary will operate every other Tuesday, offering its services from 8:30
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Millions of Texans were without power for days after a devastating winter storm in February 2021. According to the University of Houston, the storm caused roughly $295 billion in damage. It is estimated that almost 250 Texans died in the disaster, while experts believe the toll is much higher. Rhonda Boyce lives with her daughter
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Stacker compiled a list of the highest drafted NFL players born in Texas since 1970 using data from Pro Football Reference.
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Stacker investigated the impact on Texas if Roe v. Wade is repealed using data from a July 2019 study published in reproductive health journal Contraception.
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By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press The U.S. Air Force has been ordered to pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families for a deadly shooting at a Texas church. The ruling comes from a Texas federal judge who earlier decided that the Air Force was liable for the massacre carried out
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Stacker compiled a list of the fastest growing cities in Texas according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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EL PASO, Texas — Two Barrio Azteca gang members were found guilty in the 2010 murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband, and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee. A federal jury in El Paso convicted Jose Guadalupe Diaz Diaz, 43, and Martin Artin Perez Marrufo, 54, of the murders. Both men are
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Stacker compiled a list of the most valuable crops produced in Texas using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott assured Texans the state’s power grid is fully functional and continues to be reliable. Abbott provided an update on the severe weather impacting Texas Thursday at the Alternate State Operations Center in Austin. “The State of Texas has deployed a plethora of resources to ensure our communities have
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Emergency Management Council, including several state agencies involved in the response, took questions from members of the media Wednesday at Noon. Agencies briefing include: Texas Division of Emergency ManagementTexas Department of Public SafetyTexas Department of TransportationPublic Utility CommissionElectric Reliability Council of Texas
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Circuit investigated delivery driver wages in Texas using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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AUSTIN, Texas — With freezing weather expected to hit a large portion of Texas this week, Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday tried to assure Texans that the state is better prepared this year than last, but said there could be local power outages throughout the state. “Either ice on power lines … could cause a
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AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott received a briefing and held a press conference at the Alternate State Operations Center ahead of severe winter weather expected to impact the state of Texas this week. The Governor is expected to be joined by representatives from the Texas Division of Emergency Management, ERCOT, Public Utility Commission of
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Uplift Legal Funding investigated COVID-19 worker safety violations in Texas using data from OSHA.
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, CNN In what would be his last moments, the 12-year veteran deputy constable sat in his squad car minutes after midnight as the driver’s door of the car ahead of him opened. Cpl. Charles Galloway had just made the traffic stop and was trying to contact a dispatcher when a man got
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EL PASO, Texas — A large number of El Paso county vote-by-mail voters are seeing their application returned to them with a rejection notice as the March primary election gets ever closer. “It’s definitely too high of a rejection rate when normally we wouldn’t have that,” Lisa Wise, the county’s elections administrator, explained. Wise looked
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Stacker compiled the most extreme temperatures in Texas history using data from NOAA.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal judge to halt a Biden administration immigration program that allows some Central American children to legally migrate to the United States and reunite with their parents or legal guardians — including those who have pending asylum claims. The
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The Texas labor market appears to have rebounded from the pandemic, with rapid population growth driving a demand for jobs. The state ended 2021 with about 13.06 million nonagricultural jobs — about 89,600 more jobs than in February 2020, before the onset of the pandemic, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Unemployment levels have also
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Simply Business investigated workers’ compensation in Texas using data from the National Federation of Independent Business and other sources.
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UPDATE #3: – The person suspected of shooting three Houston officers has been arrested, police said Thursday night. UPDATE #2: Police are talking to a suspect who is holed up in an apartment complex according to ABC-13 in Houston. The television station is reporting they understand the suspect has been shot, but do not know
Continue Reading WESLACO, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott (R) delivered remarks at a border security briefing with attorneys general from across the country. The remarks were made at the Texas Department of Public Safety Headquarters in Weslaco, Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and DPS Director Steve McCraw also spoke. The following attorneys general attended: Alaska Attorney
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El Paso election administrators are rejecting a higher number of absentee voter applications than in previous years because of new statewide voting restrictions.El Paso County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise said her office rejected 7% of 2,400 mail-in vote applications received for the March 1 primary election as of Friday. The majority of those 166 rejections
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A man who allegedly sold a weapon in the Dallas area to the gunman who took four hostages in a North Texas synagogue earlier this month has been charged with a federal firearm crime, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Henry “Michael” Williams, 32, was arrested on a state warrant in Texas on Monday, officials said.
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Amir Vera, CNN The man suspected of killing a Harris County, Texas, deputy during a traffic stop over the weekend was wanted for crimes committed in 1996 in the county and also wanted for murder in El Salvador, the Harris County district attorney said Thursday. The announcement came during a multi-agency
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CROCKETT, Texas — A woman allegedly tried to buy a baby from a Walmart shopper in Crockett, Texas. That’s north of Houston. Police say earlier this month, Rebecca Taylor approached another woman at a Walmart self-checkout aisle and told her she wanted to buy her baby. The 49-year-old allegedly offered the woman $250,000, which she
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This month, the Texas’ COVID-19 positivity rate — the percentage of tests with positive results — soared to its highest peak yet amid the onset of the highly transmissible omicron variant. With the most recent surge in cases came a renewed reliance on testing. During the holiday season, Texans scrambled to secure at-home tests and
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U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, made his first on-camera comments Tuesday about FBI agents raiding his home, saying an investigation will show he did not commit any wrongdoing. He also reiterated he is not backing away from his bid for another term in the March primary. “Let me be clear: I’m running for reelection and
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Stacker compiled a list of the largest sources of immigrants in Texas in 1900 using data transcribed from the 1900 U.S. Census.
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos, CNN The Harris County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office on Monday said one of its officers was struck and killed overnight while conducting an off-duty motorcycle escort. According to a Facebook post from the sheriff’s office, Sgt. Ramon Gutierrez, 45, was escorting a heavy load along a service road with others. He “was off
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