KVSP Texas
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Brandon Bell/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — A new Texas law that overrides city and county ordinances will also eliminate protections currently in place for workers, such as mandated water breaks, even in extreme heat, according to critics. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 2127 on June 13, which aims to remove “patchwork” local ordinances around […]
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana are under heat alerts Wednesday with the heat index — what the temperature feels like with humidity — expected to reach as high as 122 degrees in some areas. Temperatures hit records on Tuesday and more are possible across Texas on Wednesday, […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached on May 27, becoming the state’s first statewide official to be impeached since 1917. The proceedings were sparked by claims from former employees in Paxton’s office that he was misusing his power to aid a friend and donor. The impeachment also underlines […]
Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gov. Greg Abbott said on Wednesday that Texas bused a group of migrants to Los Angeles, adding it to a growing list of so-called “sanctuary cities” targeted by the Republican governor. The move expanded his efforts to bus migrants outside of Texas, which […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (EAGLE PASS, Texas) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said authorities will install a floating water barrier to prevent migrants from attempting to cross rivers in heavily trafficked areas of the Rio Grande Valley. The barrier will be made up of a string of buoys that can be placed and dismantled in different areas […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Payton Washington, one of two Texas cheerleaders shot in April after her friend accidentally opened the door of the wrong car, is speaking out for the first time since the attack that left her in critical condition. “My spleen was shattered. My stomach had two holes in it. And my […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (ALLEN, Texas) — The suspect accused of shooting and killing eight people at a mall in Allen, Texas, earlier this month “fixated on mass shootings and held views consistent with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist … ideologies,” according to a new bulletin released Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. ABC News […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Texas man pleaded guilty to smuggling a firearm that authorities linked to the deadly kidnapping of four U.S. citizens near the border in Mexico, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. Roberto Lugardo Moreno Jr. admitted to purchasing the pistol and then taking […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (ALLEN, Texas) — The suspect in this weekend’s mass shooting at an outdoor mall in Allen, Texas, had eight weapons with him at the time, all of which were legally obtained, authorities said Tuesday. The alleged mass shooter, Mauricio Garcia, who died after a confrontation with police, had three weapons on his person […]
Stewart F. House/Getty Images (ALLEN, Texas) — Nine people died and seven others were injured on Saturday after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor mall north of Dallas, Texas, officials said. The alleged gunman, who died after a confrontation with police, was among the seven people who were killed at the Allen Premium Outlets, the […]
