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Monday Night Forecast: Hot & dry early this week, storm chances increase late week
TONIGHT: Mostly clear and humid. Low: 76. Winds: S 10 MPH. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and hot. High: 97. Winds: S 10 MPH. WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny and hot. Low: 77. High: 98. Winds: S 10 MPH. THURSDAY: Partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. These will be cold front driven. Chance of rain: […]
The Texas Woman Who Was Executed For Killing Three of Five Husbands
Have you heard to story of Betty Lou Beets? She was no doubt plagues with a harder life than most. At the age of three she lost her hearing after contracting measles. When she was 12 her mother was institutionalized and after that she was forced to take care of her siblings and her sexually abusive father.
Prosecutors say 2nd suspect in Harris County deputy's murder confessed to helping rid of guns
The subject of a manhunt last week in the death of a Harris County deputy will remain in jail without bond.Ronald Ronnie Palmer Jr., 44, is charged with capital murder for the death of Deputy Fernando Esqueda and two counts of aggravated assault for an incident earlier that night.Monday during his first court appearance in the 248th District Court, the judge declined to set bond in his capital murder case.The district attorney's office filed a motion to hold him in jail until trial. That will be decided after a proof-evident hearing in September.During his court hearing, prosecutors indicated that they...
Foster kids head to Astros game with help from Nate's Next Kid Up
HOUSTON, Texas — There are more than 31,000 children in the foster care system in the Lone Star State. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) says in Region 11, which covers 19 counties from Refugio to Brownsville, there are just under 2,500 children in the system.
Look: Map of Texas Shows Nearly 1800 High School Logos
Get pumped for football season with this map showing nearly 1800 Texas High School logos. I guess you could use it to get pumped for any sport, but come on, this is Texas. Football is a religion in this state. I will caution you, though. Trying to make out all...
Supreme Court grants Texas man a stay of execution just before his scheduled lethal injection
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening. The inmate has long maintained DNA testing would help prove he wasn’t responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.
How to report contaminated fuel from Beryl floodwaters
Following Hurricane Beryl's landfall in Texas last week, some consumers might have purchased potentially contaminated fuel from flooding and should file a complaint with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the agency announced Monday.
North Texas school districts are challenging Biden Title IX changes. What comes next?
On a sweltering June afternoon, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare stood in a shaded alcove outside Carroll ISD’s administration building. Speaking from a wheeled lectern rolled onto the pavement minutes earlier by Christian nonprofit organization Texas Values and surrounded by supporters holding “Save Women’s Sports” signs, O’Hare began his address.
States pledged hundreds of troops and spent millions to help Texas at the border so far this year
More than a dozen Republican governors gathered in Eagle Pass in February, heeding a call from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to confront what he labeled “President Joe Biden’s border crisis.” The governors, along with other GOP state leaders, vowed to send another round of National Guard troops from their states to the Texas-Mexico border. With shifts […] The post States pledged hundreds of troops and spent millions to help Texas at the border so far this year appeared first on Michigan Advance.
Texans heading into a second week without electricity are battling heat, frustration and boredom
CHANNELVIEW — Juan Piñón’s long-sleeve black shirt and forest green pants were soaked. He used a shovel to scrape concrete mix out of a blue wheelbarrow and throw it on the ground. The 43-year-old construction worker was hard at work rebuilding part of a fence knocked...
Houston woman dies in apartment without power; Center Point restores after FOX 26 report
HOUSTON - On Sunday morning, a resident at the Beringwood complex in west Houston tried to check on his 70-year-old neighbor. He says she had trouble moving around on her own and was worried when he hadn't heard from her. "I yelled in both windows, saw the cat, pounded like...
Top commercial vehicle inspectors compete in Texas Challenge
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Today marked the start of the 2024 Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Challenge in Corpus Christi. Competitors from across Texas have gathered to test their abilities and see who will be crowned the top commercial enforcement officer in the state. The Texas Challenge is organized by the...
How Did Hurricane Beryl Turn Texas Coastal Waters Brown?
Hurricane Beryl slammed into Texas pretty hard and did more than mess up property and flood areas of Texas ... it also kinda jacked up the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Beryl ravaged Texas causing floods, power outages and damages that may cost insurers in the USA $2.7 billion dollars. The...
OCI Solar Power Rebrands to OCI Energy
OCI Solar Power, a pioneer in utility-scale solar project development in Texas, has rebranded to OCI Energy. This change marks a milestone in the company’s evolution, reflecting its expanded focus on the development of both large-scale solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS) projects. “As OCI Energy, we are...
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