AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas has reported 324 more deaths from the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 as the state’s pandemic death toll topped 40,000. The Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday that the state’s pandemic death toll from COVID-19 now totals 40,095. The state’s confirmed and probable coronavirus cases rose by 11,371…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Austin’s police chief is retiring after starting with the city’s police department 30 years ago. Austin officials said Friday that Chief Brian Manley is stepping down after leading the police force since May 2018. Calls for Manley to resign have been persistent following the April police killing of a man who…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – A major winter storm was expected to dump freezing rain and snowfall with bitterly cold temperatures over many parts of Texas this weekend through early next week. This prompted officials in Houston on Friday to tell residents to prepare for power outages and hazardous roads that could be similar to those experienced…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – Attorneys for the state of New York are asking a bankruptcy judge to throw out the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case. The state is arguing that the case was filed in bad faith. In a 41 page brief filed in the bankruptcy court in Dallas, New York’s attorneys assert that the NRA…… MORE
Undated (AP) – The Biden administration says an estimated 25,000 people who are seeking asylum in the United States, but have been forced to wait for it in Mexico, will be allowed into the U.S. while their cases wind through American immigration courts. Authorities plan to slowly let the applicants in at border crossings in…… MORE