Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was formally charged Monday with civil securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Paxton was criminally indicted last year on a similar felony fraud charges. Paxton has spent much of this year pledging to investigate Planned Parenthood for horrible wrongdoing.
An active shooter opened fire at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio around 8:45 Friday morning, police said. Details are still sketchy, but the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office confirmed at 10:41 that two people have died.
Officials at the University of Texas at Austin are enhancing campus security and encouraging students to be careful after determining that a body found on campus on Tuesday belongs to first-year dance student Haruka Weiser.
A San Antonio school district police officer has been placed on paid leave following a video depicting him slamming a middle school student to the ground face-first, CBS reports.
A mentally ill death row inmate convicted of shooting a city inspector in 2005 was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday evening in Huntsville, Texas, only hours after an appeal for a ban filed by his attorneys was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Austin chef and past Top Chef winner Paul Qui was arrested Saturday morning on domestic violence charges. An arrest warrant affidavit says officers responding to a 911 call found his girlfriend weeping with a child in her arms and blood smeared on the walls and floor of his apartment.
In a chilling and bizarre case out of rural Texas, police are looking for a 14-year-old girl who went missing around 1 am Saturday. The following day, her father’s body was found burned in a field. The man had apparently been shot to death. Police say the girl, Adriana Coronado, is likely in grave danger.
In Texas, the state trooper who pulled over Sandra Bland for a routine traffic stop that ultimately led to her death has been fired.
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Late last year, Texas passed Senate Bill 11 which officially allows students to carry concealed weapons on campus. The bill, which goes into effect on August 1, has already had a dampening effect on campuses: Earlier this month, the president of the Faculty Senate at the University of Houston warned professors not to…
On Monday evening, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee looked into HB2, a Texas bill that has forced the closure of all but ten abortion clinics in the state by subjecting them to medically unnecessary, costly regulations. The Supreme Court is set to hear the case this week. If the court decides to leave the law intact, it…
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old arrested after his high school principal erroneously believed that his homemade clock was a bomb, continues to be the center of an ongoing legal battle between his suburban Dallas school district and the state of Texas. Earlier this month, the Texas attorney general ordered the school…
In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month, and the last Monday in April as Confederate Heritage Day. Unfortunately, this is not an April Fool’s joke.
The director of research at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission was nudged into early retirement after co-authoring a study that criticized the state cutting Planned Parenthood’s funding. The study suggested those cuts were damaging women’s healthcare statewide, which is true, and which several other…
We would never say definitively that presidential candidate and absolute charmer Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. That’s just a silly internet joke, children, one that’s gaining traction this election cycle and is in no way substantiated by Cruz’s cold dead eyes or his evident lack of human feeling. Stare into those…
Texas A&M University officials are expressing the requisite shock and disappointment after a group of white students reportedly yelled racial slurs at a group of black high school students visiting from Dallas’ Uplift Hampton Preparatory. A woman wearing Confederate flag earrings also reportedly approached two high…
John Feit, an ex-priest, has been arrested and indicted on charges of murdering Irene Garza, a schoolteacher and beauty queen in McAllen, Texas, in 1960. Feit has been under suspicion for decades: as a priest, he heard Garza’s last confession, and something belonging to him was found near her body in the canal where…
“Why didn’t we bomb the shit out of them?” a man asked me. “Why aren’t we bombing the shit out of ‘em? Give me a B-52 and I’ll go over there right now.” It was a chilly night in Texas, but his mind was more than 6,000 miles away, in Libya. He and I and some 30,000 other people had come to AT&T Stadium in Arlington,…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has made a career, calling, and vocation out of suing the federal government—“I go into the office, I sue the federal government,” he famously said, back when he was the state’s attorney general, but today he took it to a new and special place. Abbott released an entirely insane, wholly…
Tonya Couch, the mother of “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch, was brought back to Texas Thursday after going on the lam in Mexico with her kid and getting caught for ordering shitty pizza. Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Friday he was forced to tell her jail was “not a resort” after she complained about being…
