HOUSTON (AP) — For nearly 17 months, the Trump administration tried to deport the mother and daughter from El Salvador. The Biden administration may finish the job. They are being held at a family detention center in remote Dilley, Texas, but have repeatedly been on the verge of deportation. The Friday before Christmas, both were…… MORE
Austin (AP) – The number of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus has fallen below 10,000 for the first time since Dec. 19. The state health department on Saturday reported 9,957 hospitalizations in addition to 13,192 newly reported confirmed or suspected virus cases and 348 additional deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the…… MORE
The new Dallas-based affordable generic drug company that bears Mark Cuban’s name this week starts construction of a manufacturing facility in Deep Ellum. The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company says construction begins Wednesday to turn a building Cuban already owns in the 300 block of S. Walton St. into a drug making plant. Company…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas is again reporting more than 400 new COVID-19 deaths as the state approaches 3 million administered doses of vaccine. State health officials reported Friday that the number of patients hospitalized with the virus fell to fewer than 10,300. More than 38,000 people in Texas have died from COVID-19, the third-highest…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – A federal judge has granted permission for a West Texas flower shop owner charged in last month’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to take a work-related four-day trip to Mexico. The Judge said in the order granting Jenny Cudd’s request for travel later this month that neither her pre-trial services officer nor…… MORE