Tropical storm Beryl expected to make landfall as powerful hurricane in Texas | Hurricanes
Re-emerging Hurricane Beryl is expected to make landfall in South Texas early Monday morning, possibly as a powerful Category 2 hurricane, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and potential tornadoes to the densely populated Houston metropolitan area. The storm has slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, gathering new strength and is expected to continue to strengthen […]
Beryl bears down on Texas, where it’s expected to hit Monday and regain hurricane strength
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Powerful winds and rain approached Texas Sunday morning as Beryl was expected to turn back from a tropical storm into a hurricane overnight and pound a long stretch of coast with heavy downpours, howling gusts, and dangerous storm surge. A long stretch of Texas’s shoreline was under a hurricane waring […]
Beryl expected to hit Texas, regain hurricane strength
Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to reintensify into a hurricane and make landfall along the Texas coast early Monday, bringing dangerous conditions to the United States after battering parts of Mexico. Hurricane warnings were in effect for much of the Texas coast on Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Warned Coastal areas are at […]
Texas man Marcus Shorten charged with bigamy after his wife discovers he married another woman through Facebook post
Double Trouble! A Texas husband was charged with bigamy after his third wife found out through social media posts that he was planning to remarry another woman, but the couple has not divorced. Marcus Shorten, who has already been divorced twice in his life, married a woman named Tammy in 2012 but decided to separate […]
New mom Jerri MacMeekin drowns in boating accident in Texas
A tragic Fourth of July boating accident in Texas left a new mother dead, and her brother-in-law and the other boat driver facing DUI charges. Authorities in Willis, Texas, said 31-year-old Jerry McMeekin drowned after falling off the back of a boat on Lake Conroe when the boat operated by Kyle McMeekin collided with another […]
Texas Declares Disaster Areas Ahead of Hurricane Beryl Landfall
Texas officials have added 81 more counties to the state’s disaster declaration in preparation for Hurricane Beryl. The hurricane’s projected path has moved its landfall further north and east than previously predicted. The latest additions to the disaster declaration list bring the total number of Texas counties to 121. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is acting […]
Texas coast braces for Beryl, which is expected to regain hurricane strength
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials Saturday were urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl as the storm is expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. “We’re expecting the storm to make landfall somewhere on the Texas coast sometime Monday, if the current forecast is […]
Migrant Choir Teacher Imprisoned in Texas for Child Porn
A Texas choir teacher has been convicted of violating federal child pornography laws and will spend eight years in prison. The teacher, a Mexican national and legal resident of Mexico, will be deported after serving his sentence. Orlando Diaz Ramirez, 33, appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Klein this week to be sentenced to […]
Texas Arrests 12 Dangerous ‘Criminal Illegal Immigrants’ from Most-Wanted Lists
Texas Department of Public Safety officials announced the arrest of 12 dangerous “criminal illegal immigrants” who were on the state’s Most Wanted list. Texas DPS officials have arrested 12 “illegal immigrants committing crimes” from the state’s most wanted list, DPS announced. reportThe list also includes immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally and committed additional crimes […]
Texas National Guardsman on Border Deployment Killed in Crash
EAGLE PASS, Texas — A Texas Army National Guard soldier was killed in a two-vehicle crash near the Texas border city of Eagle Pass on Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials identified the soldier as Jeremy Vance Randolph, 44, of Dallas, Texas. The accident occurred at 1 p.m. on U.S. Highway 277, about […]