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A popular water park on Texas’ South Padre island has been fined nearly $100,000 after a 20-year-old lifeguard died and a maintenance supervisor was severely injured at the facility. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited …

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio has appointed South Padre Island Mayor Robert Pinkerton, Jr. to the Joint Interim Committee to Study Seacoast Territory Insurance. The committee will examine alternative ways to provide insurance to the state’s seacoast …