The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the first ever human instance of Chikungunya in the state. A Williams County resident near Austin, Texas was diagnosed with the disease after returning home from a Caribbean vacation, reports the Dallas
Using data collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, C2ER and the Gallup-Healthway Well-Being Index, MoneyRates.com determined that Texas is the second best state to make a living. The Lone Star State was only beat out by Washington, which received
Newly released federal data revealed that veterans using Texas VA hospitals suffer some of the longest wait times in the country. Out of 731 hospital surveyed, researchers found that Texas holds four of the top 10 slowest VA centers. Federal
Thursday, a group of bikers set out on a 1,300 mile journey from Shiner, Texas to Tijuana, Mexico to protest for the release of a U.S. Marine from a Mexican prison, according to Examiner. Breitbart Texas previously reported that Sgt. Andrew
A Houston-based men’s rights group has come under heavy criticism for attempting to host a conference on men’s issues later this month in Detroit. Conference organizers claim that they were required by Double Tree hotel, where the conference is being
Tuesday, President Obama’s verified Twitter account tweeted an image that read “It’s not 1963 anymore” superimposed over an image of Buzz Aldrin saluting the American flag on the moon.The “Equal Pay Act” was signed in 1963, and the image was
A Harlingen man was almost killed Monday when a man wielding a sword almost severed his arm. According to Valley Central, Michael Hernandez, 23, was initially hit over the head with a 2×4 piece of wood, and then viciously attacked
The Texas GOP Platform committee has approved language in the 2014 Texas Republican Platform to prohibit Texas from creating laws to ban reparative therapy when such treatment is sought by a patient. Other states, like California and New Jersey have
Texas is one of only seven states to not impose a state income tax on its inhabitants. While Texas has helped codify the state’s reputation for having low taxes, they can be extremely high for certain types of people. This
Texas officials have decided to keep the source of the drug used for lethal injections secret. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reportedly told officials at the Department of Criminal Justice they must “withhold the identifying information of the pharmacy and
The San Francisco based transportation network company Lyft recently announced plans to bring its ridesharing platform to Austin, despite city regulations. Lyft has been widely hailed as the free market’s response to government sanctioned taxi companies. Using their smartphone, a
Last Friday Breitbart Texas reported on Andrew Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old marine who was imprisoned in Mexico for having illegal guns in his car. Tahmooressi claims he was driving to San Ysidro, California to meet a fellow veteran and accidentally took a
On Thursday in a joint press release with The Metroplex Republicans, officials from The Log Cabin Republicans addressed being denied a booth at the Texas GOP Convention. Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans, Gregory T Angelo, told Breitbart Texas that his
It has recently become popular to blame natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and other bad weather on climate change. Groups like the National Wildlife Federation have gone to great lengths to try and convince people of this. On their website, the NWF says,
Narjes Modarresi, 32, an Iranian immigrant who moved to Texas, was convicted of capital murder for burying her two month old child alive, reporters Daily Mail. It took a Houston jury only two hours to deliberate before coming back with a
It appears that Texas legislators used their power and influence to help get friends and family into both the University of Texas, and the University of Texas Law School, reports Watchdog.org. UT Chancellor, Francisco Cigarroa, and his office unearthed 86
Arguing the agency “failed to do its duty to force tougher pollution controls,” the Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Sierra Club claims that the EPA failed to switch the region’s ozone
There is currently a lot of talk in Texas about how to turn the state blue, or how to keep it red. The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) however, is more interested in how to turn the state green. Heather Fazio,
On March 31 a US Marine was imprisoned in Mexico for allegedly bringing guns across the border. According to Fox News, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, a veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, missed an exit while driving to meet
“Imagine going to work every day and at the start of your day, with your first cup of coffee, you sit down to glance at beheadings, children in the process of being raped, human bodies in various stages of decomposition,
On Thursday 19-year-old Jacob Lavoro made his first court appearance for allegedly making and selling pot brownies, reports KHON 2. Lavoro is being charged with a first degree felony, which in Texas is a, “Crime which results in severe body harm to a victim and
Saturday, the NAACP announced that activist and lawyer Cornell William Brooks would take over as its new president and CEO. Brooks will become the 18th national president, succeeding the temporary leader, Lorraine Miller. Brooks has served as a lawyer for the
The recent kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian girls by terrorist group Boko Haram has sparked unilateral outrage around the globe. This act has left Americans torn between not wanting to interfere where they don’t belong, and not letting an atrocity like
Sriracha hot sauce manufacturer Huy Fong Foods has spent the past few months in an intense legal battle with the city of Irwindale California over their plant’s caustic smell. The lawsuit has already caused a partial shutdown of Sriracha’s Irwindale factory, after
