Austin firefighters sued for allegedly spending time on union activities instead of answering emergency calls have filed their response to the lawsuit that seeks to halt the practice.
A Texas woman has been charged with three counts of compelling prostitution and three counts for trafficking a child. Court documents say she pimped a 16-year-old girl by posting advertisements for escort services on Backpage.com.
Breitbart Texas was in Livingston, Texas, approximately 74 miles north of Houston, when we spotted a Cajun seafood restaurant just loaded with Trump/Pence placards and some local county political race signs.
The Texas Attorney General has fired off a brief in the litigation over the right to bear arms in the Waller County Courthouse complex. AG Ken Paxton urges that “Both the law and sound public policy against the chilling of protected speech demand dismissal of Waller County’s claim. He also urges that the Waller County court is without jurisdiction to determine the issue.
The highest criminal court in the Lone Star State has declined to hear the securities fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. A spokesman for Paxton said that the Attorney General is looking forward to going to trial before a jury.
The three top political leaders in Texas have ordered Child Protective Services to take action to protect children in the state after reports surfaced that the most vulnerable were left unattended.
Wikileaks email with the subject heading “Cecil the lion” reveals that Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta, asked a New York Times journalist to write an op-ed calling for the extradition of Cecil’s killer.
Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio, the tough-on-border issues sheriff in Arizona who sued President Obama for his executive order on amnesty, has been the target of a war by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He has faced civil contempt of court charges for allegedly profiling illegal aliens; now he faces criminal contempt charges for violating a court order.
A mother of a three-month-old was told she could not use a dressing room at a Target in Kyle, Texas to breastfeed her baby. She posted about her experience on Facebook and said “It was definitely embarrassing.”
The Texas Attorney General issued an opinion on Monday that concluded a commissioners court may use county funds on holiday lights and decorations.
Texas has a “30.06 and 30.07 Information Resource” which lists “Second-Amendment unfriendly” businesses.
The last day to register to vote in Texas for the upcoming November 8 General Election is Tuesday, October 11.
The CEO of Backpage.com agreed to immediate extradition to California after his arrest in Houston on money laundering and pimping charges. Carl Ferrer was taken into custody on Friday after he arrived at a Houston airport on a flight from Amsterdam. He is now in a California jail.
The federal court judge presiding over the civil Securities and Exchange Commission action against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has dismissed the case. In a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas, Attorney General Paxton said, “I appreciate the judge’s thorough review and I am gratified by his dismissal of the entire case.”
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made the highest-profile human trafficking bust in the Lone Star State’s history on Thursday afternoon. Backpage.com is set to be shutdown as a result. Paxton said that the victims that are sex trafficked include both voluntary and involuntary participants. The head of the organization, Carl Ferrer, has been arrested at a Houston airport.
“It’s a very tough, unfriendly world when Politifact starts asking whether we have really lost the most officers, and when a state senator falsely claims Texas has lost more officers in car accidents than gun violence,” the leader of the largest law enforcement union in Texas said. He added that this is the atmosphere in which peace officers now find themselves.
The embattled state agency that is responsible for safeguarding the lives of children is suffering from more bad news.
Police in Baytown, Texas, arrested two individuals who were chasing people around a public park while donned in black clothing, wearing clown masks. Witnesses said they were chasing individuals around the park with a stick. One of the masked men was holding a large tree limb in each hand.
A Guatemalan who admitted he drank a small bottle of whiskey, 12 beers, and used cocaine three times during the 18 hours before he failed to stop for a red light, has been arrested in Phoenix for killing a six-year-old child.
Two taxpayers filed a motion for rehearing with the Texas Supreme Court on Monday to reconsider their order denying review of a case against the openly gay former Houston Mayor and the City of Houston. They urge that Mayor Annise Parker violated the Texas Constitution and state statutes when she gave spousal benefits to gay employees in 2013 and 2014. Parker issued these benefits to employees prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling.
A lawsuit has been filed against another Texas school district for repealing the local option homestead exemption. The Texas Attorney General has intervened in the suit saying, “Local governments cannot be allowed to simply ignore laws that they do not like.”
A Texas high school student has been arrested for posting “clown threats” against school districts and campuses.
A Texas high school student has been invited to the White House by President Obama for his film that highlights a man who says “I want to live in a world where there are no guns” and where he does not “have to worry about getting picked on by the police.”
The United States Supreme Court has denied President Obama’s request to rehear the executive amnesty case.
Attorneys general for the states of Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Nevada, have been denied their request to stop President Obama’s unilateral “give-away” of the Internet.
Four state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Texas to stop the Obama Administration from giving control of the Internet to an international organization that lists several authoritarian regimes as advisers on its board.
HOUSTON, Texas — A pizza restaurant owner in Houston is taking heat for telling gun owners and advocates to “f**k off.”
HOUSTON, Texas — The “Stars and Stripes” program at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office jail in Texas boasts an eight percent recidivism rate among military veteran offenders.
Mohamed Mohamed, the father of “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed, has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Blaze, Glenn Beck, Fox Television Stations, LLC, Texas resident Ben Ferguson, Ben Shapiro, and City of Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne. He has filed the lawsuit individually, and on behalf of his son Ahmed Mohamed.
HOUSTON, Texas — A refugee who prosecutors say wanted to fight for the Islamic State is headed back to federal court on Wednesday. He is anticipated to change his plea to guilty at his rearraignment hearing.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the nation’s highest court to fully reinstate the Lone Star State’s voter ID law. The petition will not affect the November 2016 Election.
A transgender man has birthed a child after conceiving the baby with his transgender wife.
HOUSTON, Texas — 12 suspected illegal aliens have been arrested during a raid at a stash house.
The only known, living terrorist connected to the May 2015 attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, will face sentencing on October 25. Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence. Kareem, whose given name is Decarus Thomas, is a former Baptist who converted to Islam.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is holding to his guns on the new rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains. Opponents are threatening to challenge the rule in court.
At least one Black Lives Matter protester in Houston was reported to yell “F**k blue lives” while others chanted “Pig, pig, bang, bang.” The anti-police rhetoric came during a protest march in Houston’s predominantly black historic Third Ward on Saturday evening.
The Obama appointee presiding over the Texas voter photo ID lawsuit ordered the State to toss some of its voter education materials because federal lawyers did not like the exact language in printed. Although lawyers for the State gave the DOJ and liberal voting rights groups a copy of the proposed language on August 11, they waited until less than 60 days before the November election to complain. This was after financial and other resources had been expended by the State.
HOUSTON, Texas — Lawyers for the man accused of executing a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy in cold-blood has received a two month delay for further competency evaluation.
The Dallas Morning News has taken a hit in subscriptions after its early September endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
HOUSTON, Texas – A family has confronted a Texas funeral home director for taking a selfie in a hearse with their dearly departed’s casket.
