Tag: Texas
Supreme Court questions Texas law banning most abortions
By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to...
EPA awards $2 million to test Texas schools’ water for lead
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $2 million to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to help identify sources of lead in...
Some states are cloaking prison COVID data
Michael Ollove Stateline.org
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains a public dashboard showing the status of COVID-19 in its prisons, including a tally of...
Texas homeowner charged in slaying of motorist in his driveway
MARTINDALE, Texas (AP) — A Central Texas man has been charged with murder in the driveway shooting of a motorist who had pulled into...
Texas schools started year with record coronavirus cases, weekly totals on a decline
By Kalley Huang, Mandi Cai and Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune
Students in Texas public schools are facing another year upturned by COVID-19 as the...
Supreme Court doesn’t block Texas abortion law, sets hearing
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed...
Texas says cannabis extract, delta-8, is illegal, sending retailers scrambling
By Kevin Reynolds, The Texas Tribune
Three years after federal legislation removed the marijuana extract known as delta-8 THC from the nation's list of controlled...
Texas urges Supreme Court to leave abortion law in place
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and told the justices there's...
NTSB recovers black boxes from plane that burned in Texas
By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press
Federal accident investigators have recovered badly burned flight recorders and started interviewing people who were on board a jet that...
Texas nurse convicted of killing 4 men with air injections
TYLER, Texas (AP) — A Texas nurse was convicted Tuesday of capital murder in the deaths of four patients who died after prosecutors say...