Austin (AP) – The number of people in Texas hospitalized with the coronavirus has declined after topping 9,000 this week for the first time since summer. The Texas health department on Saturday reported 8,916 hospitalizations, down from 9,015 reported Friday. The department reported 11,672 new cases and 247 additional deaths for totals of 1.24 million…… MORE
Corpus Christi, (WBAP/KLIF) – Seven contract workers were injured Saturday when a storage tank exploded at a petroleum facility in Corpus Christi. Four of the victims were critically injured. Magellan Midstream Partners Operations Manager Mark Calhoun says the tank holding crude oil was being cleaned when a fire began. The fire caused an explosion. It…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Dallas-Fort Worth area continues to add large numbers of coronavirus cases to the overall infection total. Dallas county reported another nearly 1,700 coronavirus positive tests, Saturday, while Tarrant county listed over 1,300 and Denton county had 389. That brought the metroplex total to nearly 296-thousand cases since the pandemic began. However, the…… MORE
As of today, many Texas businesses will be rolling back capacity and occupancy levels as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter from the Texas Department of State Health Services written to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, it outlines that all restaurants, retail stores, office buildings, manufacturing facilities, gyms and exercise facilities, museums…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – A federal prosecutor says an Honduran man has been charged with harboring after he was found keeping watch of more than two dozen people who authorities say were being held in a Houston home as part of a human smuggling operation. Houston police say the smuggling operation was discovered Thursday evening after…… MORE