Texas inmates enlisted to carry bodies amid coronavirus surge in El Paso: report

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday urged Georgia Republicans to "overwhelm the polls with a tidal wave of votes" in the upcoming Senate runoffs.

Two Texas county judges who have called for stricter measures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus are being accused of hypocrisy for allegedly breaking their own rules. Tarrant County Judge B.

Texas police said a vehicle chase ended with a crash -- and officers finding a woman's body in the trunk of the car. The death was being treated as a homicide, according to reports.

An Austin, Texas, man created an accidental Thanksgiving donation drive using social media.  Gus Cantu, 28, and his girlfriend posted a message on Nextdoor.com, a social networking platform for neighbors, saying he was looking for a few people in need he and his girlfriend could help out.  "Every year, we've wanted to help out a family, and we realized this was the year to do it," Cantu told Fox News.

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.

At a grocery store inside of Linda Tutt High School in Sanger, Texas, you don’t pay with money but good deeds, such as cleaning around the school building. “It’s not something that you see every day in a school building,” school principal Anthony Love said.

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 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.

Ellen DeGeneres is once again giving back to the heroes on the frontlines.

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A good samaritan returned a 6-year-old boy to his family after he got off the bus at the wrong stop on his way home from his first day of in-person learning at Postma Elementary school in Cypress, Texas.  According to a report by KHOU 11, Colton Franklin was supposed to meet his older brother Gavin at the bus stop, where the pair would walk home together at around 4:30 p.m.

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.

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.

AUSTIN, Texas -- County commissioners in Texas have decided to drop their lawsuit against the outgoing sheriff for inviting A&E Network’s real-time police show “Live PD” to continue filming daily patrols even after the county ended the contract last year.The county commission, whose formal name is the Williamson County Commissioners Court, voted unanimously to end the lawsuit it filed in May against Sheriff Robert Chody on Tuesday, the Austin American-Statesman reported.At the advice of county

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