Texas

Data breach at software provider to local governments

2:37 pm September 24, 2020

Dallas: A major provider of software services to local governments and schools across the United States, Tyler Technologies, told customers Wednesday that an unknown intruder broke into its phone and information technology systems. It could not immediately be determined whether ransomware may have been involved. The Plano, Texas-based company, whose website was offline, said in an […]

Hurricane Laura death toll in Louisiana rises to 25

11:41 pm September 6, 2020

Baton Rouge: Two additional deaths tied to Hurricane Laura were reported Saturday by the Louisiana Department of Health, bringing the storm’s total death toll in the state to 25. The Health Department said a 52-year-old Grant Parish man who died of a heat-related illness while removing storm debris and a 25-year-old man in Natchitoches Parish died of electrocution after coming into direct contact […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden’s stretch on virus

7:15 pm September 5, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCain’s crowning achievements on that front as his own. Trump distorted events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the past week and his own hand in them before a furor […]

Laura cleanup begins; weeks without power or water ahead

10:28 pm August 29, 2020

Lake Charles: The destructive storm surge has receded, and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane stood at 14 deaths, […]

‘Extremely dangerous’ hurricane Laura makes landfall in US

3:07 pm August 27, 2020

Houston: Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwestern Louisiana early Thursday after strengthening into an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 classification, with the US authorities warning of potentially catastrophic impacts. The National Hurricane Center said that Laura, packing 240 km per hour sustained winds, brought a “catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding” to the state. It intensified rapidly into a Category 4 hurricane as it barreled toward the Louisiana and Texas coasts and was on […]