Texas oil and gas agency investigating 5.4 magnitude earthquake in West Texas, the largest in three decades
The quake was the third largest in Texas history, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An increase in seismic activity in Texas has been linked to injecting fracking wastewater underground.
Border Patrol vehicle carrying immigrants involved in crash – The Big Bend Sentinel
By Ursula Muñoz-SchaeferVAN HORN – On Thursday, June 10, a Border Patrol agent and 10 undocumented detainees suffered a vehicle accident in Culberson County. The incident took place at 7:17 a.m. along Interstate 10 near mile marker 145, approximately two miles east of Van Horn. All 11 occupants of the Border Patrol vehicle were injured according to a press statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety-Highway Patrol, which only provided the medical status of both drivers. Greg Davis, public affairs officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Big Bend Sector, said that the CBP “doesn’t have any information” on the passengers’ seatbelt status, their medical situations or where they were taken. “I suspect it’s going to take a good while [to gather more information on the victims’ medical status] because these investigations last a good while,” he told The Big Bend Sentinel last week.
bigbendsentinel.com‘I’m not a cat,’ lawyer tells judge during Zoom call cat-filter faux ‘paw’
Video of the court proceedings, released by Judge Roy Ferguson on social media and on YouTube, shows how the call happened. IMPORTANT ZOOM TIP: If a child used your computer, before you join a virtual hearing check the Zoom Video Options to be sure filters are off. #lawtwitter #OhNo @zoom_ushttps://t.co/I0zaj0wu6K — Judge Roy Ferguson (@JudgeFergusonTX) February 9, 2021“Mr. Ad“Can you hear me judge?” Ponton says. — Judge Roy Ferguson (@JudgeFergusonTX) February 9, 2021Watch the video in full in the player below:Related: Sheriff making changes at the Bexar County jail to address court case backlog
Coronavirus is ablaze in West Texas as tourists flock to Big Bend and Marfa. Hospitals are running out of overflow options.
So before Thanksgiving, he drove more than 500 miles west from his home in McKinney to visit Marfa and Big Bend National Park. They’re rural, sparsely populated, outdoorsy and now — overrun with visitors and saturated with COVID-19 cases. Presidio and Brewster counties, home to Marfa and Big Bend, along with nearby Culberson County, lead the state in cases per 1,000 residents in the last two weeks, according to a Texas Tribune analysis. In fact, all of West Texas, including Jeff Davis, Hudspeth and El Paso counties, is ablaze with increasing COVID-19 cases and low on hospital beds. “It’s a scary feeling to have a critically ill patient with nowhere to go,” said Gilda Morales, a Culberson County commissioner and doctor at Culberson Hospital.