By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Josiah Anthony is the former lead pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas. | Screengrab/YouTube/Iglesia el Centro Lead pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas, Josiah Anthony, has resigned over “inappropriate and hurtful” actions meted out to current and former staff at the church … Read more
“Under the Civil Defense Act of 1950, the Governor and Mayor have the power — and it’s been used before — to declare a state of emergency and put the Department of Public Health or Boston Public Health Commission in charge,” state Sen. Nick Collins said. Originally Published: July 29, 2024 at 8:39 p.m. Read … Read more
Chinese cybersecurity companies are taking advantage of the massive Microsoft Windows outage that upended businesses and grounded flights around the world on Thursday and Friday by promoting their own software, as Beijing pushes to cut the country’s reliance on foreign suppliers. Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused the outage, one of the largest in history, … Read more
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, July 19, 2024 Stephen LeBlanc, senior pastor of the Sherman Bible Church in Texas, served as an executive pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake for nearly three years starting in 2011. | Screenshot/WFAA8 Stephen LeBlanc, a former Gateway Church pastor in Texas who has known the church’s founder Robert … Read more
The Justice Department this week accused the largest provider of shelters for migrant children in U.S. custody of engaging in “severe” and “pervasive” sexual abuse of minors in its government-funded facilities. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday and announced on Thursday, the Justice Department accused employees of Southwest Key, a Texas-based organization, of sexually abusing … Read more
Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to the company’s rocket launch site dubbed Starbase in Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco. He called a new … Read more
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, July 12, 2024 Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. | Wikimedia Commons/Idibri https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonebriar_Community_Church.jpg Stonebriar Community Church, a non-denominational megachurch in Frisco, Texas, that attracts around 3,000 weekly attendees and thousands more online, has fired its longtime associate pastor of equipping, Tony Cammarota, after he confessed to an undisclosed “moral … Read more
By The Associated Press The remnants of Hurricane Beryl spawned at least one tornado and threatened flooding Wednesday as the system moved toward the Northeast after leaving millions in the Houston area without power. Beryl, which landed in Texas on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, was a post-tropical cyclone early Wednesday and centered in … Read more
Texas officials Saturday were urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl as the storm is expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. “We’re expecting the storm to make landfall somewhere on the Texas coast sometime Monday, if the current forecast is correct,” said Jack … Read more
Hikers looking to get away from the crowds should skip Yellowstone and visit a national park in Michigan instead, according to a new report. All 63 US national parks were officially ranked based on key factors including: crowd size, the quantity and quality of hiking routes, campsite availability, access to activities, mountain biking, and fishing. Some 50 percent … Read more
