A committee formed as a result of the death of Sandra Bland in a small county jail in Texas has just been released. The report makes recommendations on inmate screening, jail procedures, inmate mental health problems, and other law enforcement related issues.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil lawsuit against Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton and others on Monday, just one week to the day before the Texas AG will represent Texas and lead more than half the states in the nation at the U.S. Supreme Court in the executive amnesty case, the United States v. Texas. The federal government is appealing their loss in the lower district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Attorney General of Texas told Breitbart Texas, “That’s just creative timing by the Obama administration to file a lawsuit one week before I lead a twenty-six state coalition against his illegal immigration order.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed a former chief of the Texas Rangers as new Commissioner of the disgraced Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). DFPS is the agency responsible for protecting abused and neglected children in the state. Breitbart Texas has reported about the abuses, problems, and overreach in the agency, particularly among CPS caseworkers. DFPS is also referred to as Child Protective Services or “CPS.” There have been horrific abuses of children who are in the state’s foster care system.
Texas Pastors who where hit with subpoenas during their fight against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, dubbed “HERO” by the city’s first openly gay mayor, sent a letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant thanking him for signing a religious liberty
An illegal alien who hit a Texas firefighter head-on and killed him and his four-year-old stepdaughter and 22-month-old son will be charged with criminally negligent homicide if he recovers from his critical injuries.
Two workers from the Grand Prairie, Texas, Child Protective Services office have been fired and another worker resigned after the agency was accused of not preventing the fatal beating death of a 4-year-old little girl in March.
In an apparent attempt at winning back the hearts of conservative voters, the Republican representatives are making cuts in their proposed budget for next year. Those cuts include cutting Obamacare and IRS tax credits for the children of illegal aliens.
The Office of the Texas Attorney General (OAG) is taking actions against local governments who are illegally or improperly posting signs prohibiting licensed Texans from carrying handguns. The OAG is starting a process to crack down on local governments that
Immigration officials in Mexico have been reported to be torturing Central Americans and others in an effort to stop illegal aliens from coming into their country.
Texas’ senior U.S. Senator says that building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is not the solution to border security. John Cornyn said during a tour of the border on Tuesday, “It’s more than just physical obstacles.”
A Houston Police Department officer led a prayer during a walk in a community in Houston that has been hit hard by violence and other crime.
“You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” a Texas hospice home owner is accused of texting his employee. The CPA who does not have a medical license, is accused of telling medical personnel to administer up to four times the amount of morphine recommended in order to accelerate client deaths and maximize profits.
An investigation by the FBI and a division of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) has led to two individuals in Mississippi pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an organization that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
Two college students have been prosecuted for tying a rope and a Confederate flag around the statute of the first black American to attend the University of Mississippi.
The head of the National Border Patrol Council says a breach in the fence along a ten-mile area in remote areas of the Mexico-Arizona border should cause concern about terrorist threats.
A woman has been arrested after responding to a Facebook post from a Texas police department stating that methamphetamine and heroin may have been contaminated with the Ebola virus. The post asked concerned citizens to bring their drugs in for testing.
A Republican representative from Colorado has introduced a bill in Congress that would make it a hate crime to target a cop just because he or she is a police officer.
The South Carolina senate passed a bill which would make refugee sponsors liable for damages caused by crimes or terrorism committed by the refugees they sponsored. The vote came just one day after terrorists attacked the airport in Brussels, murdering 38 people, including 4 Americans.
The only Easter message from Planned Parenthood on Sunday morning asked people to sign a petition to “stop the investigations” into “PP health centers” and included “#StandWithPP.” As of the time of publication, neither @PPact or @PPFA had tweeted out any message for this Easter day.
The Houston affiliate of Planned Parenthood has filed legal documents to join in the California lawsuit against the pro-life group who took the undercover expose videos of its staff and clinic, the Center for Medical Progress.
A Florida man has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a Halloween night KKK-style cross burning.
Truckers have partnered-up with the Attorney General of Texas to fight human trafficking in the Lone Star State.
A Texas Hispanic man was prosecuted and sentenced for making false statements in connection to a 2012 assault of a gay black man in Corpus Christi.
Protesters were outside the Waller County, Texas courthouse when Brian Encinia, a former Texas state trooper, pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor court of perjury in connection with the arrest of Sandra Bland.
A man told a woman in Texas that he loved her and was going to marry her and then forced her into prostitution. This week he was sentenced to forty years in prison for trafficking of persons for prostitution.
Famed award-winning concert pianist, Vadym Kholodenko, found his daughters dead in their mother’s home in Texas. The girls, ages one and five, had no visible trauma but he found his estranged wife in a “distraught” state with multiple stab wounds. She has been charged with murder.
Abortions in Texas are down by almost 9,000 since 2014 in the Lone Star State. Texas legislators and pro-life activists are saying that this is “something to celebrate.”
President Barack Obama’s naming Judge Merrick Garland as his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, has been front and center in the nation’s headlines. Not so high profile was his nomination of five lawyers to serve on federal district court benches in Texas.
A Texas coastal resident has been sentenced to fifty years in federal prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography. The man and his girlfriend had advertised on Craigs List saying they would provide babysitting services. He was found to be engaging in producing child porn when authorities investigated a call for sexual assault of a child.
The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has issued a report urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex.” They say endorsing “gender discordance” is “child abuse.”
A jury in Texas awarded $695,000 in damages against a couple whose dog bit a neighbor. The verdict followed a four day trial and half a day of deliberations.
In March 2015, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important that veterans know that somebody’s got their backs, and that, if there are problems, that we’re not being defensive about it, not hiding it.” In March 2016, veterans are still having
A jury issued its guilty verdict yesterday against the only known living terrorist connected to the May 3, 2015 attack on the Muhammad Art exhibit in Garland, Texas. Although he had been raised Baptist and has the given name of “Decarus Thomas,” Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem was a convert to Islam.
Immigration-control advocates seeking to restrain the hiring of illegal alien workers in Oregon have won a challenge in the state’s highest court. A challenge was filed last year to ballot language certified by the Oregon attorney general.
Republican candidate and Texas Ted Cruz told supporters in Houston this is now a tw0-man race for the nomination. The senator began the day of this major primary just 90 delegates behind GOP front-runner Donald Trump. After Tuesday night, he found himself with an estimated 36 of the 301 delegates at stake on election day.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner called Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator Ted Cruz “Lucifer” after giving a speech at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
GOP presidential hopeful and Texas Ted Cruz greeted a hometown crowd on this third big night in the 2016 Republican presidential race.
The presence of a gun rights group at the Texas State Capitol during President Obama’s visit to the SxSW festival elicited members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense to call for gun violence against the group. Among other incitements to violence, “Just shoot them all,” and “Shoot the a**bags,” they said.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said he believes welcoming refugees is crucial to Dallas becoming a “global city” during a recent summit on the city’s economy, its workforce, and its future. The Democratic mayor made the statement after being asked about “hosting refugees” and “bringing people inside” as “one of the building blocks of a revitalized town.”
The State of Texas has filed a brief to reply to the claims on appeal made by the convicted murderer of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield. Eddie Ray Routh is asking an intermediate appellate court in Texas to set aside the jury’s guilty verdict.
