Anthony Rubalcava of Wylie rarely works on Saturdays. The company he works for was doing a concrete job in Nevada, Texas. He had just gotten to the job site when his truck was hit by lightning.

A contract worker died on Thursday from injuries received in an accident while working for Motiva Enterprises [MOTIV.UL] in an area between its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery and terminal, the company said.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against 412 people, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their roles in what Attorney General Jeff Sessions is calling the largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history.

2016 wind and hail loss information released last week by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) show that homeowner losses from hail in Texas were the highest annual losses ever recorded, as they exceeded $5 billion. Combined wind damage and hail losses to residential property also set a record at nearly $6 billion.

Police say a man suspected of drunken driving smashed his car through the front of a “Fixer Upper” home in North Waco early Saturday morning, capping more than a year of frustration for its owners, who feel their complaints about neighborhood crime have gone unheard.

Drought, hail and blowing sand have robbed the world’s largest contiguous cotton-growing patch of 50 percent of its acreage this year.

Two men are behind bars accused of intentionally setting fire to their home near Magnolia earlier this month. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze when he fell through a hole in the second floor.

An 18-wheeler carrying a load of pigs crashed during rush hour early Thursday morning on Interstate-45, closing the roadway in both directions.

A massive and dangerous storm is bearing down on the Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Cindy is the third named storm of the hurricane season and the first to hit the continental United States.

There is a 90 percent chance that a tropical storm will develop in the Gulf of Mexico in the next day or two, threatening oil and natural gas facilities and other energy infrastructure as it advances toward Texas and Louisiana.

Wind gusts of up to 72 miles per hour and hail as large as grapefruit struck the Midland/Odessa area on Wednesday. Thousands of West Texans were waking up to damaged roofs and automobiles with shattered windshields.

Two separate tropical storms are likely to form in Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic over the next couple of days, the National Hurricane Center said.

Hank Morgan was driving eastbound on Interstate 30 on Friday when an 18-wheeler, using the left shoulder as a passing lane, sped by him “with both front tires out and on fire, doing at least 80 miles per hour.”

Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation, according to CoreLogic’s 2017 Storm Surge Report.

Everything is big in Texas, including hailstorms. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) said today that insurance claims for hail damage in Texas last year exceeded the previous two years combined.