COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Massive fraud in the nation’s unemployment system is raising alarms even as President Joe Biden and Congress prepare to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into expanded benefits. A government watchdog agency says that as of December, nearly two dozen states had not started using a key system to block fraud.…… MORE
Severe Thunderstorm Watch In Effect Through 6 pm, Sunday
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) National Weather Service officials have issued a severe thunderstorm watch for North Texas through 6 pm Sunday evening. The area is currently covered with a 50% chance of showers and or a severe thunderstorm this afternoon, lowers to 20% this evening, and is followed by a likely chance of showers Monday. In…… MORE
Eviction Moratorium Declared Unconstitutional
Washington (AP) – The Justice Department says it will appeal a judge’s ruling that the federal government’s eviction moratorium is unconstitutional. Prosecutors filed a notice in the case on Saturday evening, saying that it is appealing the matter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell…… MORE
Brouhaha On American Airlines’ Flight
Phoenix (AP) – An American Airlines flight was diverted and two women arrested in Phoenix after authorities say one of the women spit on a fellow passenger who asked them to stop using racial slurs in their conversation, and the other slapped his hand when he started recording them. The airline said the flight from…… MORE
Winter Storms Staggered Houston Jail
Austin (AP) – An unusually heavy winter storm knocked out electricity to millions of Texas homes and left many people without water service, but it also left inmates at the state’s largest county jail vulnerable, hungry and cold. Advocates and lawyers say Harris County Jail inmates have told them of stinking jail toilets that couldn’t…… MORE