Articles by Jamie Stengle

Workers Fired, Resign over Houston Hospital’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement. A spokesperson for Houston Methodist hospital system said …

South Central Region Shut Down by Winter Storm

A winter storm dropped snow and ice and sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. Rotating power outages were …

Deadly Dallas Natural Gas Explosion ‘Could Have Been Prevented,’ NTSB Says

A natural gas explosion at a Dallas home that killed a 12-year-old girl came after an energy company failed to find a damaged line despite two nearby homes being destroyed in gas-related fires on the two previous days, federal officials …

NTSB: Deadly Dallas Natural Gas Explosion ‘Could Have Been Prevented’

A natural gas explosion at a Dallas home that killed a 12-year-old girl came after an energy company failed to find a damaged line despite two nearby homes being destroyed in gas-related fires on the two previous days, federal officials …

Missouri Won’t Shut Down Summer Camps Despite Virus Outbreaks

Missouri leaders knew the risk of convening thousands of kids at summer camps across the state during a pandemic, the state’s top health official said, and insisted that camp organizers have plans in place to keep an outbreak from happening. …

Update: Voice Recorder Found in Texas Plane Crash; Victims Identified

Federal investigators said that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane that struck a hangar after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport. Two crew members and eight passengers died when the Beechcraft BE-350 King …

Texas Ranch Didn’t Protect Boys from Sexual Abuse, Lawsuit Says

A young man and a teenage boy have filed a lawsuit accusing the staff at a Texas ranch for at-risk youth of not protecting them from sexual abuse by older residents, an advocate for child abuse victims says. In recent …

Family Files Suit Over Woman’s Death in Texas Hotel During Harvey

A woman whose body was found 11 days after she made a frantic cellphone call from a Houston hotel elevator as floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey rushed in exited the elevator in the basement only to struggle against a strong waist-high …

Hackers Strike Dallas Emergency Siren System

Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an hour and a half until officials deactivated the system early Saturday morning. The person or people responsible were …

Texas Reports First Case of Locally Transmitted Zika

Texas on Nov. 28 reported its first case of Zika virus that likely came from a mosquito bite within the state. Florida is the only other state in the U.S. with locally spread Zika. Health officials say that the woman …