All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 29 2024 // The American Sustainable Business Council sued Texas officials in an effort to block a law that restricts state investments with certain financial firms because of their energy policies.The lawsuit filed Thursday in...
Aug 28 2024 // A group of state lawmakers began wading through the complex world of artificial intelligence Tuesday, providing an early glimpse at how Texas may seek to regulate the booming technology.During a nearly four-hour hearing,...
Aug 27 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services, a provider commercial, personal and benefits insurance, announced the acquisition of Keith Williams Insurance Agency, Inc. (KWI), a Victoria, Texas-based agency serving individuals and...
Aug 27 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered the Southlake, Texas location of a national childcare provider to reinstate an employee and pay $43,295 in back wages and damages after the employer fired them for reporting...
Aug 26 2024 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold a Brown Bag Series with stakeholders in the workers’ compensation system this fall, with a half dozen meetings scheduled across the...
Aug 23 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Summer heat scorched Texas and the Southwest this week, pushing Phoenix to nearly 90 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures and putting millions of people under excessive heat...
Aug 22 2024 // ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A small plane crashed in a West Texas neighborhood Tuesday, killing the pilot and a passenger and setting off a large fire on the ground that injured a woman, authorities said.Witnesses said the...
Aug 22 2024 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired a Texas-based property and casualty agency, adding to the company’s expanding presence in the Central region of operations. The company did not name the acquired...
Aug 21 2024 // The parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people at a high school near Houston in 2018 do not bear financial responsibility for the shooting, a jury decided Monday.A lawsuit brought by victims and their...
Aug 20 2024 // Texas is facing its biggest test of the summer this week to keep the power on — and air conditioners running — as temperatures hit triple digits and push electricity consumption to all-time highs.Power use on the state...
Aug 19 2024 // DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t know their son would have a psychotic...
Aug 15 2024 // PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being...
Aug 15 2024 // Johnson & Johnson was twice blocked in New Jersey from getting bankruptcy protection from one of its units to resolve billions of dollars in cancer claims tied to baby powder use. For its third try, the company is...
Aug 14 2024 // General Motors GM.N has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the automaker of installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other...
Aug 13 2024 // DALLAS (AP) — A Serbian competitor in the CrossFit Games died while competing in a swimming event Thursday morning at a Texas lake, officials said.CrossFit CEO Don Faul said during a news conference that they were...
Aug 12 2024 // The Texas attorney general is investigating CenterPoint Energy Inc. citing potential violation of the state’s law in the utility’s response during Hurricane Beryl, when millions in the Houston area were left...
Aug 9 2024 // McALLEN — A federal court struck down a regulatory agency’s authorization of two controversial, multi-billion-dollar gas export projects in far South Texas, one of which is already under construction.The ruling...
Aug 8 2024 // Warner Pacific announced it has completed its acquisition of the General Agency of Ashmore Agency, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1984 by Elizabeth “Beth” Ashmore and her husband Will...
Aug 7 2024 // Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new...
Aug 6 2024 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it was seeking more information about an accident involving Tesla’s TSLA.O Cybertruck from the electric vehicle maker.The driver of the electric...