Tag Archives: Texas

People in the path of tropical storm Harvey are being advised to continue to shelter in place as “catastrophic and life-threatening” flooding continues in southeast Texas and heads east toward Louisiana. CBC | World News

Hurricane Harvey settled over southeast Texas early Saturday, lashing the state’s Gulf Coast with damaging winds and dumping torrents of rain over hundreds of kilometres of coastline that braced for what forecasters predicted would be life-threatening storm surges — basically walls of water moving inland. CBC | World News

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says tropical storm Harvey is now Hurricane Harvey and is forecasting it will become a major hurricane. At least two cities along the Texas Gulf Coast are ordering mandatory evacuations. CBC | World News

The University of Texas is removing statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.” CBC | World News

The driver of a tractor-trailer packed with people illegally entering the U.S. in an alleged human smuggling operation was indicted Wednesday on charges related to the deaths of 10 people inside. CBC | World News

Recently, former Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District junior high teacher Cornelius Smith was arrested for sexually assaulting a female student. During a series of sexual encounters with Smith, the 15-year-old victim was also impregnated by her former speech teacher. The girl, whose identity is being withheld due to her status as a minor, stated she became pregnant by Smith at her ...