This is Mary Lou Bruner. Mary Lou believes that baby dinosaurs lived on Noah’s ark, school shootings are a product of kids learning evolution, and the New World Order is working to reduce the world’s population by about two-thirds. Mary Lou also just so happens to be running for the Texas State Board of Education. She…
In the remote town of Crystal City, Texas, the mayor, city manager, mayor pro tempore, a city councilman, and a former councilman were all arrested by federal agents last week. Last month, another councilman was arrested. Crystal City has only three people total on its city council, and the lone remaining councilman…
In 2013, fifteen people were killed and more than 260 injured after a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, exploded. Investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire that triggered the explosion, but a federal report released last week found that 19 plants in Texas alone are located in similarly dangerous…
Ethan Couch—a.k.a. Ya Boy, a.k.a. the Affluenza Teen—was deported from Mexico on Thursday and booked into a Fort Worth, Texas, juvenile detention center, the Associated Press reports. “We’ve reached a great milestone,” Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said outside the facility.
On Monday evening, two members of the American militia movement, Charles Carter and Vincent Smith, got into an argument at Smith’s house, in the small Texas town of Pottsboro, just across the border from Oklahoma. The argument turned violent: Smith shot Carter in the head, killing him.
“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,…
On Wednesday, Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who stopped and arrested Sandra Bland, who died, three days later, in jail, was indicted for perjury. In a statement, the Texas Department of Public Safety said that it would “begin termination proceedings” against Encinia.
On Tuesday, the New York Times reports, police in Denton, Texas, announced that an active-duty Marine corporal had been arrested in Arizona. He was being held on a murder warrant related to the New Year’s shooting death of a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas.
Ethan “Affluenza” Couch’s mother, Tonya Couch, has been deported to the United States, Mexican officials told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The fugitive teen, meanwhile, will likely remain in Mexico for at least another two weeks and possibly several months.
Before making their way to Mexico’s Pacific coast, where they were eventually detained, “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch and his mother threw themselves a party, officials said Tuesday. Later, as the duo drove south, police received “dozens and dozens of calls of sightings” of them or their truck.
The death toll for a wave of storms and flooding hitting the central and southern U.S. is continuing to climb.
After hearing eight hours of evidence in the case of Sandra Bland’s death, a grand jury in Waller County, Texas, declined to indict any county jail employees, KPRC 2 News reports.
Police have released a second video of the August shooting death of Gilbert Flores by two Bexar County sheriff’s deputies, which was caught on video, and which shows Flores raising his hands in apparent surrender. On Wednesday, a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved.
Two Syrian families of six were settled in the Dallas and Houston areas on Monday, the Associated Press reports, and another family of four was settled near Indianapolis. “They seem very happy,” a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee, Lucy Carrigan, said.
After announcing from the hilltops that it will not, under any circumstances, no-way-buster, allow any more Syrian refugees to enter its state borders, a closer read of the law found that Texas actually can’t legally do that.
Texas’ infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, on probation for four counts of intoxication manslaughter, after he struck and killed four people while going 70 mph in a 40 mph zone in 2013, is under investigation for potentially violating the terms of his probation.
The state of Texas is suing the United States government, the Associated Press reports, in an effort to stop 6 Syrian refugees from being resettled in Dallas this week. Governor Greg Abbott has consistently sought to impede the arrival of refugees in his state since the terror attacks in Paris last month.
A group of psychotic, heavily armed Islamophobes in north Texas, who call themselves the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, have posted names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim sympathizers” to their Facebook page, reports The Guardian.
A Texas man, Raul Rodriguez, received a life sentence on Tuesday, after being convicted of murder on Friday, for the second time, ABC 13 reports. Rodriguez was first convicted in the shooting death of elementary school teacher Kelly Danaher in 2012, but an appeals court ordered a retrial.
After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that his state was not accepting people fleeing war and violence, he’s now ordered humanitarians to stop doing their jobs, too.
