WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. shed 33,000 jobs in September because of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which closed thousands of businesses in Texas and Florida and forced widespread evacuations. It marked the first monthly hiring decline in nearly seven years. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, […]
A rivalry between two Texas high schools takes a terrible fall after racist photos were posted by students on social media. The image shows the J. J. Pearce High School symbol as a supremacist over their rival Richardson High School. Using the pictures of burning crosses, the KKK and a noose along with the faces of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In the midst of documenting the flooding in Texas, several news reporters have set aside their roles as observers to help people in danger. They’ve lifted people into boats, connected families through social media, flagged down rescuers and, in one case, coaxed people out of a flooding apartment house while on […]
Houston, Texas and the surrounding areas have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. They are still being hit and could use all the help they can get. If you want to donate and be a part of the relief efforts, you can click any of the links below. Donations Salvation Army Catholic Charities USA Global Giving […]
Houston, Texas and the surrounding areas have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. They are still being hit and could use all the help they can get. If you want to donate and be a part of the efforts you can click any of the links below. Donations Salvation Army Catholic Charities USA Global Giving Save […]
HOUSTON (AP) — As Houston braced for more rain and rescues, officials started releasing more water from reservoirs overwhelmed by Harvey early Monday, even though the move aimed at protecting the city’s downtown could make already devastating flooding worse around thousands of homes. Harvey, which made landfall late Friday as a Category 4 hurricane and […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Former Tropical Storm Harvey drifted erratically toward the Texas Gulf Coast late Wednesday amid forecasts it could become a hurricane by landfall later this week, dumping heavy rain and raising the threat of flooding. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the tropical depression was expected to intensify over the warm waters […]
A Texas teenager confessed that her story about thee black men raping her was all a lie.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — A Texas coffee company is recalling one of its roasts because it was making some men a bit too excited. Bestherbs Coffee LLC issued the voluntary recall for its New of Kopi Jantan Tradisional Natural Herbs Coffee after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found it contains desmethyl carbodenafil, which […]
Police in Commerce, Texas, have dropped an evading arrest charge against former Miss Black Texas Carmen Ponder, 23, who says the allegations was racially motivated.
7th grader Sydney Caesar said that it made her "feel really embarrassed" and very upset.
James Oakley, of Burnet County in Central Texas was given a reprimand after saying a Black defendant needed a "tree and rope" in another case.
