Carter BloodCare urges community action to help local patients needing lifesaving transfusions DALLAS-FORT WORTH – Jan. 28, 2026 – The winter storm took a toll on the local blood supply. Inclement weather forced Carter BloodCare to cancel mobile blood drives and close donor centers for four days across 59 counties in North, Central and East…

Due to the winter storm, the Upshur TEEA Chili Luncheon has been moved to Friday 1/30 at the Yamboree Blue Exhibit Building from 11:00am -1:00pm. This is a change from the original date of Wednesday 1/28. The public can either dine in or take it to go. Please contact Julie York at the Texas A&M…

By Fred Schulte, KFF Health News January 29, 2026 Medicare Advantage health plans are blasting a government proposal this week that would keep their reimbursement rates flat next year while making other payment changes. But some health policy experts say the plan could help reduce billions of dollars in overcharges that have been common in…

By Maia Rosenfeld January 29, 2026 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2019, after a routine vaccination, 11-year-old Keithron Thomas felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and down his arm. His mother, Melanie Bostic, thought it would go away after a few days. But days turned to weeks, then months, and years. Bostic learned of a…

By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune January 29, 2026 STARBASE — Since establishing a South Texas headquarters more than a decade ago, SpaceX has quickly grown its operations here, expanding its staff from 300 in 2020 to more than 3,400 in 2024. The company is growing once again, taking on two new projects that will…

By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune January 29, 2026 DALLAS — It’s getting harder to afford living in Texas — even as incomes and educational attainment grow and poverty declines. Despite the state’s robust economic growth since the start of the decade, incomes in Texas haven’t kept pace with the nation at large, U.S. Census Bureau…

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune January 29, 2026 Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This is one of a four-part series of surveys featuring candidates in the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate and attorney general. Read…

By Jaden Edison, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 The Texas State Board of Education delayed voting on a proposed list of required books for K-12 students Wednesday night after hours discussing the reading materials’ religious focus and hearing public concerns about a lack of racial, ethnic and gender diversity. Voting 13-1, the board delayed…

By Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 Charles Thompson, who once briefly escaped custody after being sentenced to death, was executed Wednesday evening for the 1998 double murder of his former girlfriend and her friend.  Thompson had gotten into an altercation at his then-girlfriend Dennise Hayslip’s apartment in Houston with her and her…

By Gerardo del Valle, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump took the podium at his inauguration and promised to halt unauthorized border crossings and “begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came.” ProPublica and The Texas Tribune spent…