Texas Supreme Court blocks plan to allow mail-in voting for virus fears
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court late Friday blocked a lower-court order that had allowed residents to vote by mail if they cite concerns…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court late Friday blocked a lower-court order that had allowed residents to vote by mail if they cite concerns…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Two weeks into the reopening of Texas, coronavirus cases are climbing. New outbreaks still crop up. Few states are rebooting…
Continue ReadingCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A dozen law enforcement employees in Corpus Christi are in quarantine after arresting and detaining a suspect who…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON, Texas — Bob Watson, a former MLB player and general manager, has died. He was 74. The two-time All-Star died Thursday in Houston,…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Texas saw its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic so far, with state officials reporting 58 deaths during a time span…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON, Texas — Art Howe, a former Major League Baseball manager and player, is hospitalized with coronavirus. Howe, 73, told CNN affiliate…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego told ABC-7 he and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have spoken about his letter signed by other local…
Continue ReadingVAN ZANDT COUNTY, Texas — Authorities have issued a statewide Amber Alert for a 14-year-old Van Zandt County girl who is thought “to be in grave or…
Continue ReadingDALLAS, Texas — Texas’ Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state’s high court to order local election officials to…
Continue ReadingDALLAS, Texas — Police have arrested two people after finding a 6-year-old boy locked in a shed in Dallas. Esmeralda Lira, 53, and Jose Balderas,…
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas — Newly-released police video of a weekend shooting in a crowded North Texas park shows a chaotic scene as gunfire erupted and…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON, Texas — Texas will begin widespread coronavirus testing in state prisons where at least 30 people have died, officials announced Tuesday.…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine how a man with apparently no security clearance ended up on a runway at a Texas airport…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — County Judge Ricardo Samaniego has asked the governor to halt the further re-opening of businesses in El Paso until the coronavirus…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered coronavirus testing for all Texas nursing home residents and staff after the White House urged…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is working on a book, to be published in October, about the U.S. Supreme Court. Regnery Publishing…
Continue ReadingAustin American-Statesman. May 10, 2020. Safety shouldn’t be optional as Texas reopens Let’s drop the pretense that “data and doctors” are…
Continue ReadingDALLAS, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys now know who, when, and where they’ll be playing this fall as the NFL has released the 2020 season schedule.…
Continue ReadingPADRE ISLAND, Texas — Here be dragons, literally. Visitors to the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas are discovering blue dragons during…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Texas health officials on Sunday reported more than 1,000 new cases of coronavirus and 39 additional deaths due to Covid-19, the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s next generation of healers graduated virtually on Saturday, entering a field where thousands of healthcare workers are…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — The number of Covid-19-related deaths reported in Texas increased by 45 on Saturday to a total of 1,049, state health officials…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott, in an interview with ABC-7, maintained coronavirus growth “is very slow and very contained” throughout Texas and…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY, Mexico — Police in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila said Friday they found three sisters who worked in the government…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — A man was struck and killed by a Southwest Airlines jet landing on a runaway at the Austin airport Thursday night, authorities…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump applauded Gov. Greg Abbott’s handling of Texas’ reopening during a White House visit on Thursday. “Gov.…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Federal investigators say a video made by a witness shows a Houston police helicopter rotating in the air before plunging to the…
Continue ReadingThe Kansas City Chiefs will open defense of their Super Bowl championship by hosting Houston on Sept. 10 in the NFL’s annual kickoff game —…
Continue ReadingDALLAS, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday granted a motion to release Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther, who was sentenced to seven days…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — A line in the sand: That’s what County Judge Ricardo Samaniego is calling a lack of attention on El Paso at the state level. The…
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