Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Lawsuit Alleges Allstate Illegally Collects Driver Data
Jan 13 2025 // The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through secretly embedded software in mobile apps and then uses the data to justify raising...
USDA Halts Mexican Cattle Imports, Impacting Millions in Texas Livestock Industry
Jan 13 2025 // A single cow in Mexico and a pest the size of a housefly have held up pens full of Texas-bound cattle worth millions of dollars for the past six weeks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has banned Mexican cattle imports...
Texas AG Files Second Lawsuit Against TikTok Over Explicit Content
Jan 10 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued TikTok for the second time in recent months, accusing the social media company of violating deceptive trade law by downplaying its addictiveness and exposing children to...
Texas Refineries Prepare for First Winter Storm, Frigid January
Jan 10 2025 // Texas refineries are bracing for an onslaught of cold, snow and freezing rain as the US South’s first major winter storm sweeps in during what’s projected to be a frigid month. While temperatures in the...
Texas Farmers Look to New Congress to Update Crucial Farm Bill
Jan 9 2025 // Texas farmers tepidly celebrated last month after Congress barely managed to extend a package of laws meant to aid the nation’s agriculture industry and feed low-income Americans. The clock is now ticking for federal...
Clearcover Expands Non-Standard Auto Coverage to Texas
Jan 8 2025 // Digital car insurer Clearcover announced the launch of Clearcover General Agency to serve the non-standard auto insurance market in Texas. Policies will be underwritten by Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Company,...
Winter Storm Heading for Texas Grounds Flights and Menaces Grid
Jan 8 2025 // Flight cancellations are already piling up as a winter storm bears down on Texas and the US South, bringing snow and ice that could coat power lines and trigger blackouts. As of 7:30 a.m. in New York, at least 169 flights...
Texas Snow Threatens to Unleash Blackouts and Travel Chaos
Jan 7 2025 // A winter storm is poised to pummel Texas and the US South later this week, putting the region at risk of blackouts and travel mayhem. About 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of snow and ice will fall across southern...
Musk’s Massive Tesla Lithium Plant Hunts for Water in Drought-Hit Texas
Jan 7 2025 // Twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, Texas — an area so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games — the world’s richest man is nearly done building a lithium refinery...
Earthquakes and Blowouts Undermine Case for Carbon Storage in Texas
Jan 7 2025 // Texas has seen surging interest from companies hoping to bury carbon dioxide in its oilfields, putting the state at the vanguard of a government-subsidized program to fight climate change. But pumping CO2 into the ground...
Clyde & Co Expands Texas Presence With Tillman Batcher Merger
Jan 6 2025 // Law firm Clyde & Co announced its merger with Dallas law firm Tillman Batchelor LLP. Mark Tillman and Colin Batchelor have joined Clyde & Co’s Dallas office as partners and will be joined by their team of six...
Tornadoes in Texas and Mississippi Kill 2 and Injure 6
Dec 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A strong storm system threatened to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, a day after severe weather claimed at least two lives as twisters touched down in Texas and...
Inszone Acquires Texas-Based Roten & Company Insurance
Dec 27 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Roten & Company Insurance, a longstanding family-owned and operated insurance agency based in San Antonio, Texas. This acquisition strengthens Inszone’s...
New Texas Law Eliminates Annual Vehicle Safety Inspections
Dec 27 2024 // Most Texas drivers will no longer be required to have their cars pass an annual safety exam after state lawmakers removed the rule from Texas code. Texas is one of 15 states that mandate annual inspections for...
Texas Contractor Faces $107K Fine for Exposing Workers to Trench Collapse
Dec 26 2024 // A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Frisco, Texas contractor repeatedly exposed workers to serious hazards by sending them into unprotected trenches without providing a means of...
Freight Train Collision in West Texas Kills 2 Union Pacific Employees
Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday. The train derailed around 5...
Texas Teacher Killed and Toddlers Injured in Daycare Crash
Dec 23 2024 // SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed and another employee and five toddlers were injured when a parent’s car accelerated into another vehicle in the parking lot and both vehicles...
Texas Bill Aims to Combat Forever Chemicals in Fertilizers
Dec 23 2024 // Johnson County’s newest state representative, Helen Kerwin, R-Cleburne, filed her first bill Friday targeting an environmental problem that has struck her county: PFAS contamination in sewage sludge-based...
Texas Property Management Companies Pay $55K in Disability Discrimination Suit
Dec 19 2024 // Texas property management companies Castle Hills Master Association Inc., Bright Realty LLC, Bright Industries LLC, and Bright Executive Services LLC will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Texas-Based DMc Insurance Partners
Dec 19 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Howe Insurance Group LLC, dba DMc Insurance Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. DMc Insurance Partners is a personal...
