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Texas Serial Arsonist Charged With Starting Hay Bale Fires
Aug 27 2025 // A serial arsonist in Lavaca County, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of felony vehicle arson and admitted to starting six hay bale fires dating to 2024, the Texas Department of Insurance announced this week. The...
Texas Bill Would Levy Stricter Penalties on Camps Following Hill Country Flood
Aug 26 2025 // A bill that would tighten how youth camps are penalized for safety deficiencies and that would diminish the industry’s influence on a state advisory committee has gained traction in the Legislature. While Senate Bill...
Emergency Recordings Show Chaos of Deadly Texas Floods
Aug 25 2025 // Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how. Top emergency leaders...
Texas Lawmakers Advance Flood Bills With Grieving Parents in Attendance
Aug 22 2025 // Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130 people, including two teenage counselors and 25 young girls at Camp Mystic who had been asleep in their cabins before...
Texas Is Warning Health Providers to Stop Mailing Abortion Pills to State
Aug 21 2025 // Texas officials are warning health care providers to stop sending abortion pills into the state or risk fines and prosecution, as Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks to halt the flow of medicine that’s circumventing...
People Moves: Texas Mutual Elects Cogan to Board of Directors
Aug 20 2025 // Doug Cogan, of Cypress, Texas, has been elected to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors. He was elected at the company’s annual policyholder meeting. Cogan’s board terms for Texas Mutual, the...
Texas Senate Passes Bills Aimed at Improving Flood Safety
Aug 19 2025 // The Texas Senate quickly got to work Monday by passing several bills on the chamber’s desk as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session of the year for the Legislature, focusing first on...
Texas Shows How Trump’s Anti-Green Moves Threaten a Red Economy
Aug 19 2025 // Deep-red Texas needs to build power plants at an astonishing speed and scale to keep its economy humming. President Donald Trump just made that much harder. So many data centers, crypto-mining operations and factories are...
US Plans $750M Fly Factory in Texas to Stop a Flesh-Eating Cattle Parasite
Aug 18 2025 // The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle...
Texas Blames ESG Goals in Probe of Xcel Over 2024 Wildfires
Aug 18 2025 // The Texas attorney general is investigating utility Xcel Energy Inc. and its contractor for two wildfires that devastated the state last year, saying the companies may have prioritized environmental and diversity goals...
Texas Economy Slowing Amid Trade Policies and Immigration Crackdown
Aug 15 2025 // All signs point to a slowdown of the Texas economy as job growth slows, construction declines and inflation ticks up, according to a Monday report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The report on the Fed’s recent...
Texas Students Injured in School Bus Rollover Crash
Aug 15 2025 // A Texas school bus carrying more than 40 students on Wednesday rolled over after veering off a rural road on the first day of class, injuring multiple students, authorities said. At least one person has life-threatening...
Texas Crime Labs Say They Need More Resources for a THC Ban
Aug 14 2025 // As Texas lawmakers debate whether to regulate or ban THC products, officials with the state’s crime labs say they don’t have the resources currently to enforce whatever law is passed. “From a crime lab...
Union Pacific Train Cars Derail Near Texas Town, No Injuries Reported
Aug 14 2025 // Thirty-five cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday afternoon near a small Texas town, officials said. No injuries were reported and no evacuations have been ordered following the afternoon derailment, Union Pacific...
Along Texas’ Guadalupe River, Several Summer Camps Are in Flood Zones
Aug 13 2025 // The all-girls Christian summer camp where 27 people, most of them children, were swept away and killed by the July 4 flooding in Kerr County was just one of 13 summer camps along the Guadalupe River built on land prone to...
World Insurance Acquires Texas’ Abacus
Aug 13 2025 // World Insurance Associates LLC announced that it acquired the business of Abacus Insurance and Financial Services of Irving, Texas on April 1, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Abacus provides primarily...
Texas Homeowners Question Whether to Rebuild After Floods
Aug 12 2025 // Brian Keeper doesn’t remember exactly when his family began spending holidays in Hunt, an unincorporated town on the banks of the Guadalupe River where they’d camp, swim, and fish. Sometimes they caught so many...
Toxic Shale Drilling Wastewater Threatens Top Oil Fields, Texas Agency Warns
Aug 11 2025 // A Texas agency overseeing 13 million acres of state land is warning that toxic waste fluid from shale drilling threatens to contaminate oil wells in North America’s most prolific crude basin. The General Land Office...
Tesla Secures Texas Rideshare Permit for Robotaxi Operation
Aug 8 2025 // Tesla Inc. has been granted a rideshare license in Texas, paving the way for the electric-vehicle maker to operate its robotaxi service under new regulations governing autonomous vehicles in the state. Tesla Robotaxi LLC...
Texas Embraces Second-Life EV Battery Innovation for Grid Stability
Aug 7 2025 // East of San Antonio in Bexar County, 500 electric vehicle batteries at the end of their automotive lives will soon be repurposed to provide energy storage for Texas’ electric grid, a California company, B2U Storage...
