The next cold front to impact North Texas will arrive late Friday night. It’ll bring a drop in temperatures and a gusty north wind. In the mean time, Friday will be another mild day but it will feature more clouds and a south breeze. Highs will be in the upper 60s to mid 70s across the area. The cold front will arrive around midnight Saturday morning. The winds behind the front will be quite strong on Saturday, perhaps gusting as high as 50 mph. Temperatures will only be in the 30s and 40s, but wind chills Saturday afternoon will be…
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WASHINGTON — The Senate shot down Sen. Ted Cruz’s bid for sanctions on a Russian gas pipeline company after a contentious debate Thursday over the best way to deter strongman Vladimir Putin from ordering an invasion of Ukraine. Senators in both parties invoked solidarity with Ukraine, a former Soviet Republic under siege with more than 100,000 Russian troops massed along the border. Democrats argued that killing Nord Stream 2 now, before gas starts flowing to Germany, would cede huge economic leverage over Putin, who craves the revenue. “Putin believes that once he brings Nord Stream 2 online, and once he’s…
Authorities issued a CLEAR Alert Tuesday evening for a 55-year-old man last seen Sunday morning in Waco. Willie Rhodes was last seen around 6:20 a.m. in the 1600 block of South 18th Street, officials said. Rhodes is described as a Black man who is 5-11 and weighs 174 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair, and was last seen wearing a green Cefco t-shirt, jeans, gold Ray-Ban glasses, and gray Nike shoes. Anyone with information about Rhodes’ whereabouts may contact Waco police at 254-750-7619.
Even though early research indicates omicron leads to “less severe” illness than previous coronavirus variants, doctors and public health experts are warning Texans to not let their guard down. “At this point, we do think that the severity does appear to be less, although we’ve been very, very cautious to not gauge this as the time to be complacent at all,” said Dr. John Carlo, CEO and president of Prism Health North Texas. “We still have a lot of severe cases out there,” said Carlo, who is a former medical director of Dallas County Health and Human Services and serves…
Despite milder illness associated with the omicron variant of the coronavirus, Texans still need to take the virus seriously because of dwindling treatment options and crowded hospitals, Texas doctors said. The Texas Medical Association, which represents more than 56,000 physicians and medical students and is the largest state medical society in the country, published a list on Thursday of preventative measures recommended by member physicians to slow the spread of omicron. Get vaccinated against COVID-19 Public health experts consider a COVID-19 vaccine and booster to be the best tool for preventing the spread and mutation of the virus. When you…
Not just trespassing, Justice Dept. now sees ‘sedition’ in Jan. 6 mob, but what exactly is that? WASHINGTON – For months, Donald Trump and his defenders have downplayed the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, often citing the fact that no one had been charged with a crime involving overthrow of the government. That changed Thursday when the Justice Department announced charges of “seditious conspiracy” against 11 men including Stewart Rhodes, a disbarred lawyer from Granbury, Texas, who founded and leads the far-right Oath Keepers. The charges put the full weight of the government behind a dramatically different narrative…
AUSTIN — The Travis County district attorney has determined that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the state’s open records law by not turning over his communications from last January, when he appeared at the pro-Trump rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The district attorney gave Paxton four days to remedy the issue or face a lawsuit. The probe was prompted by a complaint filed by top editors at several of the state’s largest newspapers: the Austin American-Statesman, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. In a letter hand delivered to Paxton on Thursday, the district attorney’s head…
Two North Texans are among a group of 11 people who have been indicted on the most serious charges to date related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The indictment, announced on Thursday by the Justice Department, charges Stewart Rhodes, of Granbury, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, with seditious conspiracy and other charges. Prosecutors say Rhodes planned with others to block by force the legal transfer of presidential power. Ten others, including Roberto Minuta, 37, a New Jersey man with ties to the Oath Keepers who recently moved to Prosper in Collin County,…
BOSTON (AP) — Navient, a major student loan collecting company, agreed to cancel $1.7 billion in debt owed by more than 66,000 borrowers across the U.S. and pay over $140 million in other penalties to settle allegations of abusive lending practices. The $1.85 billion deal with 39 state attorneys general was announced Thursday. Navient “engaged in deceptive and abusive practices, targeted students who it knew would struggle to pay loans back, and placed an unfair burden on people trying to improve their lives through education,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who helped lead the negotiations, said in a statement. Among other…
NEW YORK (KTRK) — This week, Rachel Balkovec made history as the first-ever female manager in affiliated baseball after she was hired to manage the Low-A Tampa Tarpons under the New York Yankees organization. However, her career took her through the Houston Astros organization. Balkovec is a former college softball player who landed multiple internships in professional baseball and attended graduate school for two masters degrees in sport administration and biomechanics. She also learned Spanish because she had no prior experience with the language growing up in Nebraska. Allen Rowin, the director of minor league operations for the Astros in 2016, hired…
