Sources: AP
One person is killed and two others are injured after a fire breaks out in a refinery in Texas City, Texas, United States. 2023-05-15
The United States Census Bureau announces the country's total population to be over 331 million people, thereby marking the second-slowest growth rate in its history. It also announces that Texas will gain two congressional seats during the redistricting process, with Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gaining one seat each; California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will each lose a seat. 2021-04-26
Over 700,000 power outages are reported in the U.S. states of Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. 2020-10-10
U.S. President Donald Trump approves Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's emergency declaration in Midland County which experienced mass flooding after the Edenville Dam failed two days ago. The order authorizes FEMA to assist state and local officials with the emergency response. 2020-05-21
The Maine health department confirms a horse in York County has tested positive for the rare, deadly, potentially transferable to humans, mosquito-borne viral disease Eastern equine encephalitis. Earlier this week, an infected 14-year-old Michigan girl was hospitalized in serious condition, and Ohio officials confirmed an Ashtabula County horse also tested positive. Neither of the horses were vaccinated against EEE. 2019-08-31
A large-scale natural gas shortage in the U.S. state of Michigan is averted following the compliance of an emergency request from Consumers Energy for state residents to lower thermostats, after a fire at a natural gas compressor station threatened to halt the delivery of gas to consumers. The public's observance of the request resulted in a 10 percent decrease in natural gas usage across the state. 2019-02-1
Texas senator Ted Cruz said he will support Donald Trump in the 2020 elections. 2018-04-25
The governors of the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin say they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris. Twenty-three of the 24 governors are Republican with the other being Democrat (New Hampshire). 2015-11-16
The death toll from the recent storms in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma rises to 21 with 11 people missing. Fourteen more people have been killed in northern Mexico. 2015-05-28
Hurricane Alex becomes the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season with warnings posted from Baffin Bay, Texas south to Mexico. 2010-06-29