El Paso calls in 10 refrigerated morgue trailers amid surge in coronavirus deaths: reports

A Texas family says their mother’s funeral, held earlier this month, turned into a super-spreader event after more than 40 people came down with coronavirus. Delynda Cruz, whose mother the funeral was held for, told Fox 4 News she started feeling sick about two days after the Nov.

A dozen family members who traveled to St. Louis to celebrate their father’s 99th birthday found themselves all infected by the novel coronavirus.

Georgia election officials are extending the use of secure ballot drop boxes for use in the state’s twin Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5, where the Republican majority in the Senate is at stake.

A Texas family is using their personal experience to warn others against gathering for celebrations ahead of Thanksgiving after 12 of them allegedly contracted coronavirus at a birthday dinner held earlier this month, eventually spreading it to three others who didn’t go to the party.

An Air Force veteran newly elected to represent an oil-rich Texas district, said President-elect Joe Biden's proposals on taxes, and the oil and gas industry are "extremely alarming." A former fighter pilot and national security adviser to President Trump, August Pfluger said American energy independence is a key security priority, and he'll stand up for oil and gas jobs as a Republican member of Congress.

COVID-19 test kits are being delivered by drone in an El Paso, Texas, pilot project that involves Walmart and Quest Diagnostics. KFOX14 reports that the pilot program to deliver testing kits to homes in El Paso started Tuesday.The drone deliveries are made to single-family homes within a 1.5-mile radius of a Walmart Supercenter in East El Paso.

A federal judge temporarily halted the planned execution of Lisa Montgomery after her attorneys contracted coronavirus.  U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the ruling Thursday from Washington.The move bars the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out the Dec.

A married couple in El Paso – both prosecutors whose work involved child support cases – were shot at their own home over the weekend, as investigators continue to piece together the details of the incident that happened in the city’s historic Manhattan Heights neighborhood. Authorities have yet to identify a suspect or release many details about the case, but Saturday marked the second fatal incident at the couple’s address in the last two years, according to El Paso Times.

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Sen. Kelly Loeffler called for the resignation of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after thousands of uncounted ballots were unearthed after the 2020 election.

Hate crimes in the United States last year rose to the highest levels in more than a decade, according to a new FBI report.

Jim Pace was a sports car racing driver who won both the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1996.Pace began racing in 1988, debuting in the Barber Saab Pro Series. He had an early success in the 1990 24 Hours of Daytona, winning the GTU class.

Inmates in Texas are reportedly being used to help the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s office handle the influx of bodies as coronavirus cases surge in the area. Several El Paso County inmates were spotted at the ME’s office on Saturday by a photographer with The Texas Tribune.The inmates were dressed in PPE gear and moving bodies into mobile morgues stationed outside the building.

A Texas appeals court temporarily halted a county judge's order Thursday that mandates the closure of non-essential businesses in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The request to the Eighth Court of Appeals was filed by state Attorney General Ken Paxton and restaurant owners, who sought to strike down portions of El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego's lockdown measures.

California on Thursdaybecame the second state in the U.S. to top 1 million total coronavirus cases, following Texas, per data from Johns Hopkins University.

A child who was being treated at a Texas hospital after developing an inflammatory syndrome linked to the novel coronavirus has died, hospital officials announced this week.  One of the two children being treated at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) died this week after they were admitted to the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit.  Medical experts have described MIS-C as similar to Kawasaki disease, a rare illness that causes