Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Measles Outbreak Could Become National Epidemic: Public Health Experts
Mar 24 2025 // With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn’t start vaccinating more people, according to public health experts. Measles, a...
Texas Man Sentenced for Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud
Mar 24 2025 // A Texas man was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for constructing a $5 million insurance fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas announced. Jordan Ford, 32, was charged via...
Texas Lawsuit Alleges GEICO Raises Premiums Despite Accident Forgiveness
Mar 24 2025 // A class action lawsuit filed in Texas alleges GEICO doesn’t abide by its Accident Forgiveness program when a driver with an unblemished record gets into a first, at-fault accident. Texas resident Christopher Cude...
Tesla Cited by US Regulators Over Texas Worker’s Death
Mar 21 2025 // Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant. The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed...
Texas Senate Passes Ban on Hemp
Mar 21 2025 // The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a state ban on all forms of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, advancing a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to crack down on the state’s booming consumable hemp market six years after...
CSB Releases Update Into Fatal Texas Hydrogen Sulfide Release
Mar 20 2025 // The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released a second update on its ongoing investigation into the fatal hydrogen sulfide release that occurred on October 10, 2024, at the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery...
Greenpeace to Pay $660 Million in Damages to Texas Oil Firm
Mar 20 2025 // Greenpeace has been ordered to pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners LP after the Texas-based oil company accused the environmental group of defamation in connection with protests against an oil...
CRC Group Acquires Texas’ Risk Transfer Partners
Mar 19 2025 // CRC Group, an independent wholesale specialty insurance distributor in North America, announced the acquisition of Risk Transfer Partners (RTP), a casualty-focused wholesale brokerage business. This strategic acquisition...
Texas Bills Seek to Improve State’s Response to Wildfires
Mar 19 2025 // A Texas lawmaker is laying the groundwork to create a statewide system that connects all first responders and government agencies to the same network. The proposal comes as a possible solution to fix communication issues...
Devastating Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Homes Across Oklahoma and Texas
Mar 18 2025 // As Oklahomans assessed the devastation from wildfires that whipped across the state, damaging or destroying hundreds of homes, officials in both Oklahoma and Texas warned of an increased risk of fire danger in the coming...
Man Charged With Intoxication Manslaughter in Texas Crash That Killed 5 People
Mar 17 2025 // A man was charged Friday with intoxication manslaughter after five people were killed and several injured in a late-night wreck in Austin, Texas, that involved over a dozen vehicles on Interstate 35, authorities...
Texas Regulator Reports Recovering $58M in 2024 Restitutions
Mar 17 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance’s Fraud Unit contributed to investigations landing nearly $58 million in court-ordered restitution last year. According to TDI, more than 20 TDI investigators stationed around the...
Texas Tech Medical School Settles Suit Over Alleged Race-Based Admissions Practices
Mar 14 2025 // A group led by Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, is claiming victory after it got a commitment from Texas Tech’s medical school not to consider race in admission decisions, which...
Texas Stock Exchange Hires Nasdaq, Cboe Executives for ETP Push
Mar 13 2025 // An upstart stock exchange based in Texas has poached top talent from its big-name rivals as it prepares its push into the $11 trillion exchange-traded fund world. Cboe Global Market’s former head of exchange-traded...
Explosion in Manhole at Texas Tech University Prompts Campus Evacuations
Mar 13 2025 // Several buildings at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated Wednesday night after officials said an explosion in a manhole near a substation caused multiple fires that could be seen emerging from underground...
Delaware Aims to Remain Top US Corporate Home; Texas Marshals a Challenge
Mar 13 2025 // A year after Elon Musk urged U.S. companies to abandon Delaware as their legal home and follow Tesla to Texas, legislators in the two states on Wednesday considered bills in an unusual battle over corporate law that...
Texas Reports 25 New Measles Cases, Bringing State Total to 223
Mar 12 2025 // Authorities in Texas reported 25 new measles cases over the last five days, bringing the state’s total to 223 as the outbreak continues to spread. Authorities in Texas, the hardest-hit state with the first confirmed...
Texas Judge Awards Nearly $2M for Negligent FBI Agent’s Fatal Shooting
Mar 10 2025 // A federal judge has awarded nearly $2 million in damages as part of a civil lawsuit after concluding an FBI agent was negligent when he fatally shot a kidnapped Texas man during a botched rescue attempt in 2018. The family...
Rural Texas Hospitals Scramble to Respond to Measles Surge
Mar 10 2025 // Five years ago, Melanie Richburg used a roll of duct tape, a HEPA filter and a portable fan to draw contaminated air out of a hospital room where patients were tested for the coronavirus. Now, as the state’s largest...
Texas PR Specialist Sues Blake Lively for Defamation
Mar 10 2025 // A Texas crisis communications specialist has sued Blake Lively for defamation after the actor pulled him into her legal fight with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their film, “It Ends With Us.” Jed...
