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AUSTIN, Texas – A new state law gives Texans additional time to renew their vehicle registration online. House Bill 2152 allows online registration renewals up to 12 months after expiration. Previously, Texans could renew expired registrations online up to nine months past the expiration date. However, customers who continue late will still …

In a press release, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas says that their electric generation fleet and electric transmission companies are ready for winter after a series of winterization efforts. It comes less than a year after power failed during Winter Storm Uri, resulting in the deaths of more than …

Governor Greg Abbott announced on Friday that Texas had requested resources for federally-supported testing locations and medical personnel and additional federal allocations of monoclonal antibodies. The request comes amid a significant spike in COVID cases in some of the state’s largest counties.

Texas Secretary of State John Scott released the phase 1 progress report of the State’s forensic audit of the 2020 election results in Collin, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant counties. The report claims it identified more than 11.000 potential non-US citizens as being registered to vote, a claim challenged by the …

Cook Children’s Medical Center is starting to be bombarded with COVID-19 patients again. In the latest report, 29 kids were in the hospital with COVID. At this time last week, that number was eight. Dr. Mary Suzanne Whitworth, the Medical Director of Infectious Diseases at Cook Children’s, says she broadly …

The FDA authorizes the use of two COVID pills, which patients can take at home to avoid burdening hospitals. Baylor Infectious Disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez says this will be a big help. Just not right now. He says the early reports show that the Pfizer drug reduces hospitalizations by …

Jabori Robinson Authorities wanted a Northeast Texas man for alleged kidnapping, and holding a woman hostage for three days is now in custody. Officials took 38-year-old Jabori Robinson of Texarkana into custody at about 3:00 Tuesday afternoon. Investigators say Robinson offered to drive the woman to her home in Ashdown …

The Texas Legislature passed 23 new laws that go into effect on January 1. The majority of them deal with tax requirements or tax-exemption statuses. For example, one new law allows foodservice establishments to be reclassified as restaurants if alcohol sales are under 60% of overall sales. Another forbids tax …

Omicron is blazing through Texas and will be for a while longer. Dr. Anass Bouchnita with UT-Austin’s COVID-19 modeling consortium says they predict it will peak in the U.S. between the middle and end of January. He says there are fewer cases right now compared to the rest of the …

The only monoclonal antibody treatment effective against Omicron is on back-order in Texas. Regional infusion centers in five cities, including Fort Worth, have exhausted their supply of Sotrovimab and won’t receive more shipments until January. It’s the only effective treatment against the latest COVID strain as Omicron’s mutations make other …