Latest Texas Headlines

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Vehicle Crashes Into Austin, Texas Emergency Room, Killing 1

Feb 15 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A car crashed into a Texas hospital’s emergency room Tuesday, killing the driver and injuring five other people, including a child with life-threatening injuries, authorities said.The car...

Texas Housekeeping Provider to Pay $520K Over Disability Discrimination Suit

Feb 15 2024 // Hospital Housekeeping Systems, LLC (HHS), a provider of housekeeping, food and facilities support to numerous industries, based in Dripping Springs, Texas, will pay $520,000 as part of the settlement of a disability...

People Moves: Hysell Joins Alliant Insurance Services’ Texas Benefits Team

Feb 14 2024 // Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, named Gary Hysell as vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Austin, Texas, Hysell joins Alliant with over 25 years of industry...

Police Investigate Motive Behind Shooting at Joel Osteen’s Megachurch

Feb 14 2024 // Several law enforcement agencies are actively investigating the motives behind a Sunday shooting at pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations. The...

Woman Killed After She Opened Fire in Joel Osteen’s Megachurch

Feb 13 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A woman in a trenchcoat opened fire with a long gun Sunday inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Texas, sending worshippers rushing to find safety while two off-duty officers confronted...

People Moves: JM Wilson Makes New Hires and Promotions Nationwide

Feb 13 2024 // JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, made several new hires and promotions in offices across the country. Katie Priester Bird joined the company as a property and casualty underwriter. Bird previously held roles...

Texas Nursing Care Facility Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit for $50K

Feb 13 2024 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates nursing care facilities across Texas and Louisiana, will pay $50,000 to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...

Ten Texas Counties Have Soot Levels Above EPA Standards

Feb 12 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a long-anticipated rule aimed at reducing the level of air pollution known as particulate matter — microscopic particles that can penetrate deep into the...

Texas Supreme Court Rules to Cut Out Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals

Feb 12 2024 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that when an insurance company pays an appraisal award plus any statutory interest in a weather-related first-party property case, there is no liability for attorney’s fees.The...

Court Orders Texas Adjuster to Cease Using Lloyd’s Trademarked Names

Feb 9 2024 // A Texas public adjuster committed willful infringement when he formed a corporation and a limited liability company with the names “Certain Underwriters at Lloyds London, Inc.” and “Certain Underwriters...

Lubbock, Texas to Vote on Marijuana Despite Attorney General Lawsuit

Feb 8 2024 // LUBBOCK — An effort to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in Lubbock is moving forward, despite Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suing five cities this week for doing the same.Lubbock Compact, the...

Texas Got Early Warnings About Costly Grid Policy, Records Show

Feb 7 2024 // Texas grid officials received repeated warnings last summer that their efforts to shore up the state’s increasingly strained electric grid risked driving up power prices, records show.Concerns first arose just days...

Creators of Biden Audio Deepfake Face Potential Charges

Feb 7 2024 // An AI-generated cloned audio message of President Joe Biden that attempted to dissuade registered Democrats from voting in the New Hampshire primary election was traced to a Texas company and its owner.Attorney General...

Bridge Specialty Opens Dallas, Texas Office

Feb 6 2024 // Bridge Specialty Insurance Brokerage (BSIB), who provides access to an extensive range of wholesale and specialty insurance solutions, announced the opening of its Dallas, Texas office. The new office will provide...

Business Moves

Feb 5 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher, Hughes InsuranceArthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired the Queensbury, New York-based independent insurance agency, Hughes Insurance Agency Inc. From its headquarters in Queensbury and an office in...

People & Places

Feb 5 2024 // Everest Insurance appointed Patrick Hagerty senior vice president and head of U.S. retail property. He is based in New York.Hagerty joined the company’s corporate underwriting team in 2021 and was most recently...

Texas Man Convicted of Arson in Historic Courthouse Fire

Feb 2 2024 // A Texas man was found guilty this week of starting fires at the historic Mason County Courthouse and an occupied residential structure on February 4, 2021. A McCulloch County jury this week found Nicholas Miller guilty of...

Texas Men Indicted in $70M University Athletic Billing Scheme

Feb 1 2024 // Four individuals, including two physicians, have been indicted in the Eastern District of Texas charged with federal violations involving a university athletic billing scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs.Mouzon...

Texas Sues Five Cities Over Marijuana Amnesty Policies

Feb 1 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched lawsuits against the cities of Austin, San Marcos, Killeen, Elgin, and Denton for adopting amnesty and non-prosecution policies that violate Texas laws concerning marijuana...

Texas Freeport LNG Unit Faces Month-Long Outage After Winter Storm

Jan 31 2024 // U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Freeport LNG said on Friday it expects one of three liquefaction units at its Texas plant will be out of service for about a month after it faced a technical issue during last...