All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TikTok on Thursday for sharing and selling minors’ personal information, violating a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active on social media, accusations...
Oct 4 2024 // The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a pipeline valve and sparked a four-day fire that forced the evacuation of nearby neighborhoods in a Houston suburb was a local 51-year-old man, according to police.Remains found...
Oct 3 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the upstart Texas Stock Exchange will help transform Dallas into the country’s top financial center and boost businesses’ access to capital.“Dallas, Texas, is already a...
Sep 30 2024 // LUBBOCK — Federal lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the economic catastrophe that could happen if a new farm bill isn’t passed by the end of this year, now that the 2018 version has officially expired.Since it...
Sep 25 2024 // DALLAS (AP) — A judge last week denied a effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to halt the recently announced ban on guns at the State Fair of Texas.Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky denied the...
Sep 24 2024 // The Results Companies, LLC, a services outsourcing firm, violated federal law when it refused to provide a reasonable accommodation for a blind call center employee and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Sep 24 2024 // IMA Financial Group Hires Davenport to lead Texas Employee BenefitsIMA Financial Group, headquartered in Denver, named Teniqua Davenport as Texas market leader, employee benefits on its Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston...
Sep 23 2024 // The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of trespassing on and damaging a plot of vacant land the company owns in Texas.In a lawsuit filed this week at a Texas court,...
Sep 23 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A jury in Texas began to deliberate Friday whether the so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election in a heated highway encounter...
Sep 20 2024 // The first readings Abigail Edgar took of hydrogen sulfide and methane at oilfields in Caldwell County in 2021 were so high that she thought her equipment was malfunctioning.“It was off the scales. Methane was off the...
Sep 20 2024 // Deer Park, Texas, police confirmed that human remains were recovered from a vehicle that crashed into a natural gas liquids pipeline Monday, triggering a fire that continues to burn. “Medical examiners will now begin...
Sep 18 2024 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” (Good) from “a-” (Excellent) of Texas...
Sep 18 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas September 18, 2024—Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, is announcing today that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a...
Sep 13 2024 // Texas is inching closer to adopting revised oil and gas waste management rules for the first time in four decades.The Railroad Commission of Texas announced the draft rule at its Aug. 15 meeting and is now soliciting...
Sep 10 2024 // Sigo Seguros, a Texas-based insurtech company that focuses on providing auto insurance services for immigrant and working-class communities, announced it has raised an additional $5.1 million in its pre-Series A funding...
Sep 9 2024 // A storm system in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane early this week, bringing heavy rain, damaging winds and potentially life-threatening storm surges to parts of the Texas and Louisiana...
Sep 5 2024 // If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said Tuesday — the latest sign that the state’s high home prices and rents have become a growing...
Sep 4 2024 // BOCA CHICA — It wasn’t just a day at the beach.But it never is on this small strip of sand near the Texas-Mexico border, not since SpaceX began launching rockets here. On this particular Saturday in August, about a...
Sep 3 2024 // Authorities are investigating the weekend collapse of a portion of bleachers at a rodeo arena in Texas, injuring 12 people near San Antonio.Emergency responders arrived at the rodeo arena shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday in...
Aug 30 2024 // ALVORD, Texas (AP) — Four people were killed and 10 were injured when a van rolled multiple times after the driver veered off a Texas highway and then overcorrected Wednesday, authorities said.The crash happened just...