Taft Grain & Elevator Co. was cited with four willful and 16 serious violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), following the death of an employee who became engulfed in grain at the company’s work site in Taft. …
Two men, in separate cases, were sentenced on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported. Roberto Espericueta of McAllen must serve one year of probation and pay $3,500 in restitution to Texas Mutual. Carlos J. Macias-Arango (aka Carlos …
An anonymous phone call to the state’s Arson Hotline resulted in the arrests of two juveniles in connection with an apartment fire in Austin. The fire caused an estimated $10,000 in damage. Austin fire investigators say two boys, ages 12 …
A Dallas Cowboys spokeswoman hurt when the team’s practice facility collapsed in 2009 during a storm has sued several companies. The lawsuit says Jancy Briles suffered “serious, disabling and permanent injuries.” Details were not released. Summit Structures and its parent, …
Wildfires that ravaged parts of Texas in April caused at least $20.4 million in agricultural losses, destroying fences, buildings and grazing pastures, and killing livestock. A report released by the Texas Agrilife Extension Service said loss estimates for April were …
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that the Federal Emergency Management Administration has denied the state’s April 16 request for a federal Major Disaster Declaration to assist with the ongoing wildfire season, which has burned more than 2.2 million acres, an …
The troubled caretakers of the Alamo are facing more problems: rats and rent payment woes. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas are already in jeopardy of losing stewardship of the Alamo after 106 years. On top of that, the …
A federal judge ordered a Texas-based company accused of abusing and underpaying several mentally disabled men at a turkey plant in Iowa to pay $1.76 million to the former workers, the U.S. Labor Department said. The partial summary judgment was …
A daunting job of damage assessment and cleanup confronted a tiny East Texas town of Edom, Texas, on April 27 after a suspected tornado roared through, damaging than 100 homes and injuring at least one person. The storm slammed through …
A utility serving refineries and chemical plants in Texas that shut down when electricity was lost says it’s not the source of the outages. Three Texas City refineries, including a BP unit where a 2005 explosion killed 15 people, and …