Month: April 2020

Texas Public Radio is updating the latest information on COVID-19 in the San Antonio area, along with how local businesses are adjusting, how you can help those in need and what you can do to stay entertained at home. TPR is also providing live updates on the Rio Grande Valley. Here’s what we know … Saturday, April 25 11:00 a.m. — ‘Mr. Fiesta’ keeps the party going With Fiesta postponed to the fall, one San Antonian whose identity is tied to the…

Texas Public Radio is updating the latest information on COVID-19 in the San Antonio area, along with how local businesses are adjusting, how you can help those in need and what you can do to stay entertained at home. TPR is also providing live updates on the Rio Grande Valley. Here’s what we know … Saturday, April 25 10:00 a.m. — Texas National Guard soldiers train in San Antonio San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said Friday that local health care workers…

Some Southern states, including Georgia and South Carolina, are among the first in the country to ease restrictions to try get back to business despite factors that make the South particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. And pressure is mounting on other Southern governors to get their economies back up and running. Outside the Alabama Capitol this week, a few dozen protesters drove by honking their horns, chanting “freedom” and demanding to get back to…

National Weather Service survey teams are assessing the damage this afternoon. HOUSTON — The National Weather Service offices in Houston and Lake Charles, La., were very busy Thursday morning doing something they don’t often do: Surveying severe destruction from a violent, long-lived tornado. The Lake Charles NWS has already reported that the same cell that moved through Seven Oaks, Onalaska and Jasper Wednesday night is the same cell that produced “solid EF-2 damage” just west…

‘To lose two valued employees so young is especially difficult. TDCJ is a family,’ TDCJ Excutive Director Bryan Collier says. ONALASKA, Texas — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has identified two employees killed during a tornado that swept through Polk County Wednesday night, injuring several others and destroying dozens of homes. Taylor Holbert 29, and Brooke Ivey, 27, were both Onalaska residents employed by the Texas prison system.  TDCJ said Holbert’s mother, who is…

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone impacted by this tragic act of nature,” TDCJ Excutive Director Bryan Collier says. ONALASKA, Texas — TDCJ employees killed in tornado that devastated southeast Texas The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has identified two employees killed during a tornado that swept through Polk County Wednesday night, injuring several others and destroying dozens of homes. Taylor Holbert 29, and Brooke Ivey, 27, were both Onalaska residents employed by…

National Weather Service survey teams are assessing the damage this afternoon.         

National Weather Service survey teams are assessing the damage this afternoon. HOUSTON — The National Weather Service offices in Houston and Lake Charles, La., were very busy Thursday morning doing something they don’t often do: Surveying severe destruction from a violent, long-lived tornado. The Lake Charles NWS has already reported that the same cell that moved through Seven Oaks, Onalaska and Jasper Wednesday night is the same cell that produced “solid EF-2 damage” just west…