If you have lived in the RGV for any length of time, this will probably surprise you, but the FBI has just captured another close-knit group of local white-collar crooks. They may have missed the news from late 2014, released by the FBI, which said, basically, if you’re a crook, we’re coming after you.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every facet of state government, and Texas’ criminal courts are no exception.
AUSTIN — An updated study from the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) shows more than half (50.5%) of total spending on brand-name prescription drugs goes to middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and other stakeholders in the drug supply chain — not to drug manufacturers.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas this past year, five members of our church family passed. Any time is a tough time to lose a loved one, but the holiday season is exceptionally difficult for most folks trying to manage their grief amid the lights, decorations, and all the other seasonal hooha. As a pastor of a Christian congregation, I understand the sting of death in the echoes of God’s promise of everlasting life, that believers need not fear the grave (see 1 John 5:11). We Lutherans fondly speak of the “community of saints” made up of the believers who suffer in the faith in this life and those who have gone on ahead.
Of the ten deceased individuals, seven were not vaccinated
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