Angela Smith says her husband will not be happy about this story. She launched a GoFundMe, too, and he wasn’t too keen on that. “We both have a hard time asking for help,” she says. “He doesn’t want our burdens to become anyone else’s.” But the 55-year-old says she felt…
A pair of North Texas residents pleaded not guilty on Dec. 16 to charges they defrauded insurers of more than $7 million via fake COVID-19 tests. A statement released by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Leigha Simonton, claims that Terrance Barnard, 39, and Connie Jo Clampitt,…
Some of the bills filed early in the upcoming Texas legislative session double down on the state’s strict abortion laws. Others aim to loosen them.
In post-pandemic Texas and beyond, nurses are facing long-term challenges.
A process server claimed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ran from him as he tried to serve subpoenas from a federal lawsuit.
A year and a half since COVID-19 first hit and shuttered much of the world, some hardline Texas conservatives are still spreading wild conspiracy theories about the vaccine. In a Twitter post on Thursday, the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog media outlet Right Wing Watch published a video of Texas-based doctor, right-wing…
Dozens of state lawmakers have called on DSHS to publish a report on the number of pregnancy-related deaths in Texas.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says in new, multi-state billboards that people faced with abortion bans can go to his state to get the procedure legally.
Dallas County has now received shipments of the new, updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
High school-aged young people experienced a 75% week-over-week increase in COVID-19 cases.
Cards Against Humanity is donating 100% of its profits from anti-abortion states to the National Network of Abortion.
Dallas County is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases thanks to the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant.
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal guidance aimed at protecting doctors who perform emergency abortions.
Dallas County has documented more than 600,000 cases of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.
The staccato thud of hammers broke the predawn stillness one morning in 1988. Activists dotted the vacant lot. They carried some 700 hand-painted white crosses bearing the names of Dallas County residents who’d succumbed to AIDS. Members of the Gay Urban Truth Squad (GUTS), a Dallas activist group, drove the…
On Tuesday, Dallas health officials reported the first case of monkeypox this year in the Lone Star State.
Abortions is still legal in Texas, and women still have to right to get one if needed. Here is an explanation of the resources available.
Even before the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Texas had already passed some of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the country.
Texas has been ranked the third safest state during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new analysis by WalletHub.
When William is on a horse, it doesn’t matter that he can’t run or jump, according to ManeGait, the nonprofit therapeutic horsemanship center where he rides. The National Institute of Health says he’s only one of two children with his diagnosis who don’t use a nighttime ventilator. Both ride horses…
A U.S. Air Force veteran named Ben Duncan his the max dose on his medication for essential tremor, a disease that causes involuntary shaking. His doctor told him he could keep taking the medicine and live with the side effects, get brain surgery or try a new kind of therapy. He chose the latter and says it’s helped him get his life back.
Last week, a former employee sued Collin College over alleged retaliation and disability discrimination.
