Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother’s death
December 05, 2024
Dalton Knecht scored 18 points and made four free throws in the final 8.8 seconds as Tennessee topped Texas 62-58 to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year
March 24, 2024
Federal officials say that milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu
March 25, 2024
Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic is two-stepping out of Texas to the Philadelphia area
March 26, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday kept on hold a Republican-backed Texas law that would let state authorities arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing
July 02, 2024
A federal appeals court has refused to lift an order that blocks Texas from arresting and deporting migrants suspected of illegally crossing the border
March 27, 2024
Kroger is shuttering three of its e-commerce fulfillment facilities in Texas and Florida
March 28, 2024
Dash camera video released by a Texas school district shows the moment a cement truck veered into oncoming traffic, hitting a school bus carrying more than 40 pre-K students returning from a zoo field trip
March 28, 2024A U.S. judge in Texas struck down a climate rule adopted by the Biden administration requiring states to measure and set declining targets
March 28, 2024
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into a supplier of parts for Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc after what he said were recurring issues with certain of
March 28, 2024
A Texas appeals court on Thursday reversed its prior ruling and acquitted a woman who had been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in the 2016 election against state
April 26, 2024
A Texas appeals court has overturned a woman's voter fraud conviction and five-year sentence for casting an illegal provisional ballot
March 29, 2024
The Texas attorney general says he's investigating a key Boeing supplier that is already under scrutiny by federal regulators over the quality of its work on Boeing planes
March 29, 2024
A federal court in Texas that has become a favored destination for conservatives suing to block President Joe Biden's agenda has decided not to follow a policy adopted by
April 26, 2024
The 3-point line for the women’s NCAA Tournament at Moda Center had a discrepancy in distance at each end of the court that went unnoticed through four games over two days before Texas and North Carolina State were informed of the problem ahead of their Elite Eight matchup
March 31, 2024
A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu — an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows
April 01, 2024
Texas on Monday reported a human case of avian influenza in a person who had contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with the virus.
April 01, 2024The mayor of the Texas city that was the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history has announced his resignation, citing health issues
April 02, 2024
The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. says it has stopped production at a plant in the Texas Panhandle after bird flu was found in the flock and the same infection was found in Michigan
April 02, 2024
A attorney defending Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally told a panel of federal judges Wednesday that the law may have “went too far” but that will be up the court to decide
April 03, 2024
A California-based vendor of election services is charging several Texas counties tens of thousands of dollars in additional fees
April 04, 2024
Small town businesses are embracing the eclipse crowds, as weekend festivities heat up before Monday's big event
April 06, 2024
Eclipse enthusiasts are staking out their spots across three countries, fervently hoping for clear skies
April 07, 2024
Texas’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a guaranteed income program set to start this month for Houston-area residents
April 09, 2024Oklahoma's attorney general is suing two Texas-based natural gas companies over soaring prices during Winter Storm Uri in 2021
April 10, 2024
A convicted murderer who was released early from a Texas prison in 1993 and now faces two new murder charges has offered to enter a plea and to return to prison for 50 years in exchange for avoiding going to trial and facing a possible death sentence
April 11, 2024
A commercial vehicle crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in a rural town west of Houston, seriously injuring several people
April 12, 2024
Texas' ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education has resulted in more than 100 job cuts at University of Texas campuses across the state
April 13, 2024
The Biden administration will award up to $6.4 billion in grants to South Korea's Samsung to expand its chip production in central Texas as part of a broader effort to
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas
April 15, 2024
The man who drove an 18-wheel truck with a loaded flatbed into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) building last week, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others, faces
April 15, 2024A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Texas inmate Melissa Lucio should be overturned
April 16, 2024
A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group
April 18, 2024As U.S. shale oil boomed last decade, an oil pipeline company pitched an ambitious multi-billion-dollar export port off the Texas coast to ship domestic crude
May 07, 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday
April 22, 2024
Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot
April 25, 2024
It was a Texas veterinarian who collected samples from dairy farms that confirmed the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in cattle for the first time
May 01, 2024
Texas officials are investigating at least nine recent deaths involving an unusual spike of opioid overdoses in Austin
May 01, 2024The start of the first civil trial stemming from the deadly crowd surge at the 2021 Astroworld festival in Texas has been delayed
May 02, 2024
Torrential rain is causing flooding in the Houston area
May 02, 2024
Airline parts manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems has asked a U.S. judge to block a probe by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, calling the state's demand for internal
May 17, 2024
The four-month window from May through August marks the high point for power generation and demand in the state of Texas, the largest U.S. user of
May 16, 2024
Heavy storms have continued to slam the Houston area
May 03, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice says it plans to sue Iowa over the state's new immigration law
May 03, 2024
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, was indicted on Friday on federal charges of conspiracy, bribery and money laundering, a complaint filed in federal court said.
May 20, 2024
This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on
December 03, 2024
Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges in connection with a federal probe into their ties with the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan
May 04, 2024
High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water
May 04, 2024
Storms in Texas are bringing additional rain to the already saturated Houston area, where hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded homes and roads
May 05, 2024
Floodwaters in the Houston area and parts of Southeast Texas are starting to recede, allowing residents to begin returning to their homes and assess damages after days of heavy rainfall
May 06, 2024
When students get unqualified teachers, it’s like missing one-third of the school year – and that’s what’s been happening with rural students in Texas.
May 06, 2024
Sempra Energy posted a 17% drop in first-quarter profit on Tuesday as it logged sharply lower revenue from its natural gas operations, although increases in its Texas power business helped
May 22, 2024
U.S. spot power and natural gas prices turned negative in Texas, California and Arizona for Tuesday as pipeline maintenance trapped gas in the Permian Shale in West Texas
May 22, 2024
The World Boxing Council has stripped unbeaten Jermall Charlo of his middleweight title following his arrest this week on suspicion of drunken driving in Texas
May 08, 2024
A Texas man is petitioning a court for information over his former partner's alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up a first-of-its-kind legal test to the limits of statewide abortion bans
May 08, 2024
Extreme heat and rising electricity demand are expected to drive up power prices in Texas this summer, while the rest of the U.S. power markets are broadly pricing lower,
May 22, 2024
A top former aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and a political and business consultant have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to help the Democratic congressman from Texas launder more than $200,000 in bribes and to assist prosecutors in a federal criminal investigation
May 09, 2024
The independent office that reviews allegations against House members has found probable cause that Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas converted campaign funds to personal use
May 10, 2024
SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk's space venture rapidly
May 28, 2024
The Air Force says an instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the turboprop aircraft was still on the ground at a Texas military base
May 14, 2024
Officials say a barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road connecting the city to Pelican Island
May 15, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to rule that Texas cannot keep a 1,000-foot-long floating barrier in the Rio Grande, one in a series of
May 30, 2024
A barge crashed into a bridge on the Texas coast on Wednesday, forcing the closure of the only roadway to a small island off the city of Galveston, city officials said.
May 30, 2024
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has pardoned a white ex-Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against racial injustice
May 16, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas
May 16, 2024
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says it could take “weeks” for power to be restored in some parts of Houston following fierce storms with winds of up to 100 miles per hour
May 17, 2024
A severe storm packing hurricane-force winds pummeled Houston on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 homes without
July 02, 2024
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday granted a full pardon to a former U.S.
June 02, 2024
Power use in Texas will likely break records for the month of May next week as homes and businesses crank up their air conditioners to escape a spring heat wave, the
June 03, 2024
Texas officials say power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city and killed at least four people
May 17, 2024
As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising Texas heat
May 18, 2024
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