Texas A&M University will become a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus effective Jan. 1, 2020, President Michael K. Young announced today. The initiative is in compliance with recommendations and requests from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.

According to the Neilsen Company’s extensive sampling of TV, smart phone, and video game console users, American adults spend an average of four-and-a-half hours per day watching television and an additional 54 minutes using TV-connected devices such as DVD players and video game consoles.

Celadon, the largest U.S. truckload carrier, filed for bankruptcy Monday morning, leaving 3,000 truck drivers and 500 administrative positions without a job two weeks before Christmas. 

The 33rd Annual Sealy Fantasy of Lights Parade took place Saturday, December 7, 2019. Spectators lined the streets to watch the parade and take part in the festivities.

Six Saudi nationals were taken into custody for questioning near the Florida naval base where an Air Force trainee – also from Saudi Arabia – opened fire Friday morning, killing three before a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him. According to the New York Times, three of the Saudis were filming the attack. It is unknown whether they were students at the base, or whether they are connected to the gunman.

It’s the quarterfinals of state football and we still have some local teams in the battle for state.  Here are the scores we have.

Although there are fewer people in prison than there were a decade ago, costs have surged along with the share of inmates who are older — and sicker.

Since 1990, the U.S. economy has produced millions of jobs, but nearly two-thirds of them have been low wage jobs. Of course this is one of the biggest factors causing the systematic erosion of the American middle class. Today, half of all U.S. workers make less than $33,000 a year, but meanwhile the cost of living has been steadily increasing.

The UL Fire Safety Institute showed a group of people the difference having a door closed vs. having it open during a fire can make.

Three employees were injured when an explosion at the TPC Group Plant in Port Neches rocked the area early Wednesday morning.

A Texas woman was found dead after pre-dawn attack by a group of feral hogs outside a home, the Chambers County sheriff said.

Area Football battles happened last night in the fight for the state title.  Here are the scores we have of local and surrounding area teams.

The Trump administration’s new $4.7 billion price tag suggested to South Korea two weeks ago to cover its share of the costs of housing American troops, which have been stationed on the peninsula as a deterrent against the north via US Indo-Pacific Command forces since 1957, has angered Seoul to the point that negotiations were abruptly cut off Tuesday.

“With a case this high profile, there has got to be either a major malfunction of the system or criminal enterprise at foot to allow this to happen. So are you looking at both, is the FBI looking at both?” the South Carolina Republican senator asked. “The FBI is involved and they are looking at criminal enterprise, yes,”

Two federal correctional officers who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein died were arrested early Tuesday on federal charges related to their failure to check on him the night he died in his cell, according to the New York Times.

This year, as it has for several consecutive years now, the Tax Foundation reported that “Americans will collectively spend more on taxes in 2019 than they will on food, clothing, and housing combined.”

Many are wondering why the Hong Kong police focused on CUHK when almost all universities in Hong Kong are involved in anti-government protests. What’s more, the police seemed to be very determined to take control of the campus. The answer may be simpler (and more ominous) than many suspect.

Robocalls are at an all-time high. On average, Americans received more than 2,000 robocalls every second in October, up 25% from the previous month. With 49 billion robocalls so far this year, all four major U.S. phone carriers now offer some form of blocking or screening service, such as T-Mobile’s well known “Scam Likely” label. Congress and state officials passed new robocall regulations in recent months and have seen an uptick in successful cases against the scammers. Meanwhile, hundreds of tech start-ups are developing new ways to tackle the problem.

Bi-District Football battles happened last night in the fight for the state title.  Here are the scores we have of local and surrounding area teams.

In a move that will send shockwaves across the $3.5 trillion US healthcare industry, on Friday the Trump administration unveiled a plan that would – for the first time – force hospitals and insurers to disclose their secret negotiated rates