Texas ready to open large drive-in vaccine site
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations stayed on its downward trend Monday as health officials prepared the opening of a large...
Abbott will give his State of the State address Monday night
Gov. Greg Abbott will give his State of the State address at 7 p.m. Central time Monday.
The State of the State speech is Abbott’s...
Mexican soldiers rescue toddler abandoned in Rio Grande
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and immigration agents rescued a 2-year-old girl from Chile after she apparently fell into the Rio Grande and...
GOP lawmakers seek tougher voting rules after record turnout
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican lawmakers in statehouses across the country are moving swiftly to attack some...
Texas has a problem with its COVID-19 vaccination data
By Karen Brooks Harper and Shannon Najmabadi | Texas Tribune
After the staff at Austin’s Tarrytown Pharmacy hustled to vaccinate 500 vulnerable Texans and front-line...
Texas to get a boost in vaccine doses it gets this week
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas was scheduled to get more than 520,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, more than state officials said they...
Abbott, O’Rourke spar in what could be a preview of the 2022 governor’s race
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune
Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke butted heads Thursday after the Democratic former El Paso congressman said he would...
Army: 11 Fort Bliss soldiers ill after ingesting substance
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) — Eleven soldiers were sickened — including two who were in critical condition — after ingesting an unauthorized substance during...
Families of Texas couple killed in drug raid sue city, cops
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The families of a couple killed in a 2019 drug raid by Houston police have alleged...
Governor orders state agencies ‘to use all lawful powers and tools’ to resist Biden’s...
BY BOB CAMPBELL | Odessa American
ODESSA — Gov. Greg Abbott led a roundtable discussion here Thursday with 16 representatives of all levels of the...