KVSP Texas
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KTRK-TV (NEW YORK) — A missing teen has been found, eight years after he went missing while walking his dogs in Houston, Texas. News of Rudolph ‘Rudy’ Farias IV’s reappearance was tweeted July 2 by Texas Center for the Missing. Then-17-year-old Farias was walking his two dogs on the evening of Friday, March 6, 2015 […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — At least 13 people have died from heat-related illness in Texas, The Associated Press reported. Ten deaths due to heat illness were reported in Webb County and another death occurred in Galveston County in the past two weeks, local officials told ABC News, as the Southern U.S. grapples with a weeks-long […]
P A Thompson/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton goes on trial later this year in the state Senate after being impeached, one lawmaker in the chamber will be barred from casting a vote: his wife. Angela Paxton, who represents state Senate District 8, will not be able to take part […]
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 […]
