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Texas jury delivers $730 million verdict in landmark truck-collision case

By Staff reports | Wednesday, Nov 24, 2021 @ 11:45am

MOUNT PLEASANT - On Nov. 22 a jury rendered a total award of $730 million to the survivors of Toni Combest, a 73-year-old great-grandmother who was killed in a 2016 collision with an oversize-cargo truck hauling a propeller for a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine, a press release states.
Bipartisan coalition announces support of HB 1802 to study new treatments for post-traumatic stress

By David Yates | Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 @ 10:51am

AUSTIN—Today a bipartisan group of special operations veterans, medical experts and advocates came out in support of legislation by State Representative Alex Dominguez (D-Brownsville) to create a first-of-its-kind study on the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy to treat some of the most severe medical and mental health conditions facing veterans.