Latest Texas Headlines
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The Hilb Group Expands Central Region Presence With Texas Acquisition
Aug 22 2024 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired a Texas-based property and casualty agency, adding to the company’s expanding presence in the Central region of operations. The company did not name the acquired...
Jury Finds Parents of Texas Student Accused of 2018 Mass Shooting Not Negligent
Aug 21 2024 // The parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people at a high school near Houston in 2018 do not bear financial responsibility for the shooting, a jury decided Monday. A lawsuit brought by victims and their...
Texas Grid Faces Biggest Test of Summer With Extreme Heat
Aug 20 2024 // Texas is facing its biggest test of the summer this week to keep the power on — and air conditioners running — as temperatures hit triple digits and push electricity consumption to all-time highs. Power use on the...
Texas Jury to Decide if a Student’s Parents are Liable in Deadly School Shooting
Aug 19 2024 // DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t know their son would have a psychotic...
Pressure Mounts on Texas Regulator as ‘Zombie’ Oil Wells Spill Toxic Fluids
Aug 15 2024 // PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being...
J&J Eyes Texas as Venue for Next Round of Baby Powder Fight
Aug 15 2024 // Johnson & Johnson was twice blocked in New Jersey from getting bankruptcy protection from one of its units to resolve billions of dollars in cancer claims tied to baby powder use. For its third try, the company is...
Texas Sues GM for Allegedly Collecting Drivers’ Data, Then Selling it to Insurers
Aug 14 2024 // General Motors GM.N has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the automaker of installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other...
Competitor Dies During Swimming Event of CrossFit Games at a Texas Lake
Aug 13 2024 // DALLAS (AP) — A Serbian competitor in the CrossFit Games died while competing in a swimming event Thursday morning at a Texas lake, officials said. CrossFit CEO Don Faul said during a news conference that they were...
Texas Attorney General Opens Probe Into CenterPoint Over Beryl
Aug 12 2024 // The Texas attorney general is investigating CenterPoint Energy Inc. citing potential violation of the state’s law in the utility’s response during Hurricane Beryl, when millions in the Houston area were left...
Court Orders Regulators to Fix Process, Reconsider Gas Export Projects in South Texas
Aug 9 2024 // McALLEN — A federal court struck down a regulatory agency’s authorization of two controversial, multi-billion-dollar gas export projects in far South Texas, one of which is already under construction. The ruling...
Warner Pacific Acquires Texas’ Ashmore Agency
Aug 8 2024 // Warner Pacific announced it has completed its acquisition of the General Agency of Ashmore Agency, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1984 by Elizabeth “Beth” Ashmore and her husband Will...
Study Links Fracking Wastewater Injection to Surface Blowouts in West Texas Oil Wells
Aug 7 2024 // Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new...
NHTSA Seeking Information on Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash in Texas
Aug 6 2024 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it was seeking more information about an accident involving Tesla’s TSLA.O Cybertruck from the electric vehicle maker. The driver of the electric...
Texas Carbon Monoxide Poisonings Spike After Hurricane Beryl
Aug 5 2024 // Texas lawmakers nearly three years ago promised changes to prevent the devastation from a deadly winter storm from happening again. But the damage caused by Hurricane Beryl last month shows that much remains the same,...
Texas Assisted Living Facility Sued for Firing Worker With Sleep Disorder
Aug 2 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, violated federal law when it denied an employee an accommodation for her sleep disorder and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Chevron to Quit California for Texas After Warning on Regulation
Aug 2 2024 // Chevron Corp. is relocating headquarters to Houston from California after repeatedly warning that the Golden State’s regulatory regime was making it a tough place to do business. The move announced Friday will end...
Oil and Gas Power Lines Suspected of Causing Texas Panhandle Wildfires
Aug 1 2024 // When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden’s ranch near Skellytown, he decided he had had enough. Cowden took on a second unofficial job: looking...
Damaging West Texas Earthquakes Likely Caused by Oil and Gas Activity: USGS
Jul 31 2024 // Damaging earthquakes that rocked West Texas in recent days were likely caused by oil and gas activity in an area that has weathered tremors for decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A sequence that began in...
Coastal Texas Braces for Insurance Rate Increase at Upcoming TWIA Meeting
Jul 31 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state’s insurer of last resort for homes and businesses on the Gulf Coast, will consider raising rates as climate change increases the chances of more severe storms and...
Meta Platforms to Pay $1.4B to Settle Texas Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition Data
Jul 30 2024 // Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans...
