Another Harris County resident has tested positive for COVID-19. The individual was one of 17 Houston-area residents who recently traveled on the same Nile River cruise.
Naomi Andu
Naomi Andu was a reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune in 2020. A graduate of Northwestern Universty, Naomi was the print managing editor at the student-run campus magazine North by Northwestern. She has also worked as an editorial intern at The TRiiBE, a digital media platform in Chicago, and was a mentor for the Medill Media Teens Program.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Coronavirus concerns prompt Austin officials to cancel SXSW
Health officials have said there are no instances of the virus spreading within a Texas community. The annual Austin festival founded in 1987 attracts more than 400,000 attendees from all over the world and generates hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Coronavirus evacuees to be released from San Antonio quarantine Tuesday
Local officials said only people who have been symptom free for 14 days will be released from Lackland Air Force Base.
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Alarm grows over coronavirus as thousands prepare to travel to Texas for SXSW and Houston rodeo
The March festival and other upcoming Texas events draw crowds from around the country and the world. But mounting fears around COVID-19 have some organizers canceling and attendees considering staying home.
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Environment
Water main rupture sets off major disruption in Houston: citywide boil notice, Loop 610 flooded
The main break caused some early voting locations to close. All Houston ISD schools were closed Friday and set to reopen Monday, the school district announced.
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Homeless in Texas
Abbott’s state-run camp for the homeless in Austin to be taken over by nonprofit with new shelter plans
The Texas Department of Transportation will begin lease negotiations with ATX Helps, which plans to construct a large shelter on the southeast Austin property where more than 100 people reside. Some camp residents say they’re concerned about the proposed changes.
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Public Education
After penalizing gay teacher, Mansfield ISD awards her $100,000, plans vote to ban sexual orientation discrimination
As part of the settlement, the school district agreed to provide mandatory training to human resources and counseling staff on LGBTQ issues in schools, and to require its board of trustees to vote on whether to add protections for sexual orientation into its policies.
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Criminal Justice
Former UT coach Michael Center sentenced to six months in connection with admissions scandal
Center took a $100,000 bribe in exchange for marking a prospective student a tennis recruit. The student had no background in tennis and left the team shortly after being accepted into the university.
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Texas coronavirus cases climb to three after two cruise ship evacuees are diagnosed
More than 300 Americans on the cruise ship were repatriated Monday. Of those, 18 have been confirmed to have coronavirus, including two being held at a San Antonio military base, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Democrat Mike Siegel’s close loss in 2018 won him tougher primary competition this year for a nationally targeted congressional seat
The Austin lawyer said the party left the 10th District for dead until he came within 5 points of winning in 2018. Now, Siegel is up against two new challengers who say he can’t finish the job.