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AG Ken Paxton has four days to comply with the law or face a lawsuit, the district attorney said, siding with a recent newspaper editors’ complaint.

KEYSER - Mineral County’s number of current active COVID-19 cases has jumped to 333 as of Tuesday.

KEYSER - Active COVID cases have taken a jump again in Mineral County; increasing by 48 within the past four days.

KEYSER - As Mineral County’s number of active COVID-19 cases continues to hover under 100, the total death toll has risen to 122.

Mineral County reports 3 more COVID-related deaths

Opinion Don’t read this story unless you want to learn about secrets being kept from us in the Texas electricity crisis The Watchdog makes the case for an independent commission to investigate Texas’ abysmal power performance. Watchdog Dave Lieber notes that Texas leaders have not created an independent investigation to study the February weather disaster. He says Gov. Greg Abbott is at the center of the scandal.(screenshot NBC5) 1:48 PM on Apr 29, 2021 CDT Gov. Greg Abbott, quick to point ...

Mineral County has confirmed U.K. variant Liz Beavers Tribune Managing Editor KEYSER - The Mineral County Health Department confirmed Monday that a case of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant, otherwise known as the “U.K. variant,” has been detected in Mineral County. Health department administrator A.Jay Root told the News Tribune that the variant was discovered during routine testing of random samples obtained from those who have been tested for COVID-19 in the county. He declined to give specif...

Liz Beavers Tribune Managing Editor KEYSER - With 64 current active COVID-19 cases reported by the Mineral County Health Department Wednesday, the county is experiencing yet another uptick in virus cases. Health department administrator A.Jay Root confirmed Thursday that Mineral County is seeing an increase in cases “across the board,” and the hike cannot necessarily be pinpointed to any one age group, event, or place. Mostly, he feels, it’s because the county’s numbers had decreased fo...

Editorial: Another Texas power failure - cynicism of low expectations FacebookTwitterEmail Maria Pineda watches a video of her 11-years-old son play in the snow for the first time in Conroe, Texas. He died of suspected hypothermia on Feb. 16.Gustavo Huerta, MBO / Associated Press Texans can be thankful that the heartless mayor of Colorado City proved to be the outrageous exception rather than the rule during the deadly Lone Star deep freeze. While he was ranting in an unhinged Facebook screed t...

Little-known Texas Reliability Entity acted as an independent auditor.