Cyclone Nisarga Lashes India’s Business Capital, Forcing Evacuation of 100,000 June 4, 2020 By Rafiq Maqbool, Emily Schmall and Aniruddha Ghosal A cyclone made landfall Wednesday south of India’s financial capital of Mumbai, with storm surge threatening to flood beaches and...
Arkema NA, CEO Indicted in Texas for ‘Reckless’ Chemical Release August 6, 2018 By Emily Schmall The North American subsidiary of a French chemical manufacturer and two senior staff members were indicted in connection with last...
6 Months After Storm, Texas Launches Harvey Recovery Funds Tracker February 28, 2018 By Emily Schmall Texas has launched a public online tool to track incoming and outgoing funds for Hurricane Harvey recovery, six months after...
Texas’ Use of Federal Harvey Funds Clouded by Lack of Transparency December 18, 2017 By Emily Schmall Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed,...
Texas Balloon Pilot Previously Had DWI Arrest in Missouri August 2, 2016 By Emily Schmall and Will Weissert The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in Texas and killed all 16 people aboard was arrested in...
Record Brazos River Flooding Inundating Southeast Texas June 1, 2016 By Emily Schmall Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding along a river that is expected to crest at...
Flash Floods Overwhelm East Texas Town, 6 Deaths Reported May 2, 2016 By Emily Schmall In less than an hour early on April 29, more than 7 inches of rain had accumulated at the water...
Experts Doubt Involuntary Flight Claim Would Help Texas ‘Affluenza’ Teen January 22, 2016 By Emily Schmall An argument raised by lawyers for a Texas teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck...
Natural Gas Firm Says It’s Not Causing Texas Quakes June 12, 2015 By Emily Schmall A natural gas extraction company controlled by energy giant Exxon Mobil sought to prove on June 10 that it is...
Family of Ebola Victim, Dallas Hospital Reach Settlement November 13, 2014 By Emily Schmall A lawyer for the family of the only Ebola patient in the United States to die says the hospital that...