Texas

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they say their 17-year-old transgender son needs, NBC News reports.

Three people were fatally shot in Austin Sunday afternoon. No suspect is currently in custody.

A Texas man who drove a pickup truck involved in a deadly head-on crash that killed eight migrants he was carrying near a Texas border city has been indicted.

An 8-month-old boy died Saturday after being shot by his 3-year-old brother at a Houston apartment, police said. Assistant Chief Wendy Baimbridge of the Houston Police Department indicated the shooting unfolded accidentally after the toddler picked up an unsecured firearm. Two family members drove the baby boy to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, she said. A subsequent search…

The names of 13 of the 22 women who have filed lawsuits accusing Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and harassment will be made public following court hearings

The shooting happened at Kent Moore Cabinets in Bryan, Texas. Police said the suspect is an employee of the business.

In less than a month, Selina Herrera registered over 600 people to get COVID-19 vaccine appointments in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley area. Her volunteer initiative began when Herrera, 26, took it upon herself to register her relatives because she was the tech savvy one in her family. The Texas resident figured that if her Latino family had trouble finding appointments…

The ranks of big corporations now criticizing GOP efforts to restrict voting access are spreading to Texas.

As millions of Texans went without power for days during February’s devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted climate skeptic blaming system failures on the state’s embrace of wind and solar energy, emails obtained by NBC News show.

A teacher in Alice, Texas, promised one of his students that if the student showed up to class every day for two weeks, the teacher would get a mullet.

President Joe Biden on Monday urged states that had lifted the mask mandate to reinstate it as COVID-19 cases rise in parts of the country. “I’m reiterating my call for every governor, mayor and local leader to maintain and reinstate the mask mandate,” Biden said. “Please, this is not politics.”

Rep. Henry Cuellar told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that the Biden administration must “work with Mexico and Central America.”

A Texas fast-food restaurant manager was stabbed in a dispute sparked over a mask policy, and League City officials have issued an arrest warrant for a suspect, NBC News reports.

A Marine from Duncanville, Texas was honored Thursday with the Navy and Marine Corps medal for saving a young boy caught in a rip current on a North Carolina beach.

A Texas man who drove a pickup truck involved in a deadly head- on crash near a Texas border city following a police chase that left eight migrants dead has been named in a criminal complaint.

The mother of a 1-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in the head by a Houston police officer this month said her son remains in intensive care, NBC News reports.

Authorities say eight people in a Dodge pickup truck loaded with immigrants were killed when the vehicle collided with another truck following a police chase near the Texas border city of Del Rio.

Noodle Tree, a ramen restaurant in San Antonio, was defaced with racist graffiti after chef and owner Mike Nguyen criticized the rollback of the state’s mask mandate on CNN and said that he would continue to require that people wear masks when visiting the restaurant.

In Texas, it’s time for spring break on South Padre Island and, for some, it’s time to go mask free. The state’s governor repealed a statewide mask mandate and is allowing businesses to operate at full capacity.