FCIC Operational Results, Calendar Years 2022 – 2024 2022 2023 2024 Total, 2022-2024 Total amount of loss prevented or recovered $48,493,324 $123,026,504 $102,331,871 $273,848,699 Credit cards, credit card numbers recovered 1,629 3,945 14,854 20,428 Skimmers recovered 396 228 344 […]
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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Arrives in Austin, Benefits Texas State Parks
AUSTIN – The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is back in Austin March 22 at the historic Paramount Theatre. This is the 18th year that Whole Earth Provision Co. has hosted the tour in Austin and the 14th year that Texas […]
TDLR Closes Three San Antonio Massage Establishments For Suspected Human Trafficking
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has issued a six-month emergency closure order effective January 21, 2025, that closes three massage establishments in San Antonio for suspected human trafficking. Rudy E. Lopez and Huang Ping Lopez, d/b/a Pings […]
Attorney General Ken Paxton Becomes First Texas Law Enforcement Official to Sign Agreement to Help President Trump’s Deportation Efforts
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton signed an immigration enforcement agreement with the Trump Administration, becoming the first Texas law enforcement entity to formally assist with and facilitate the mass deportation of illegal aliens during President Donald Trump’s second term. Attorney […]
IRS and partners highlight Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the EITC
One in five eligible taxpayers don’t claim this credit worth up to $7,830 TX-2025-02, Jan. 31, 2025 WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service and partners around the nation today celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) with the launch of […]
Annual Texas Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Dates Set for 2025
AUSTIN —For the past 23 years in February, countless volunteers band together to search the Texas coastline for abandoned crab traps. The abandoned traps foul shrimpers’ nets, snag anglers’ lines, ghost fish (when lost or abandoned fishing gear, such as […]
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Observes National Unclaimed Property Day, Feb. 1
(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is joining other unclaimed property administrators to celebrate the fourth annual national Unclaimed Property Day tomorrow, Feb. 1. “I am proud to have returned more than $3 billion to Texans since becoming Comptroller, including a […]
Attorney General Ken Paxton Fights to Stop Taxpayer Funded “Gender Transition” Operations for Incarcerated Criminals
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton joined an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to prevent a District Judge from mandating that taxpayers fund “gender transition” surgeries for inmates in a state prison. “Taxpayers […]
Texas Center for the Book Launches New Lone Star Libraries Series
Austin, TX – Lone Star Libraries is a new quarterly series of articles and videos from the Texas Center of the Book at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that showcases and celebrates exceptional libraries across Texas. The first […]
Sens. Cruz, Scott, Cassidy, Colleagues Introduce Resolution Recognizing National School Choice Week
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and several of their Republican colleagues in Congress in introducing a resolution recognizing January 26 – February 1 as National School Choice Week. Upon introduction, Sen. […]
