A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper has surrendered to authorities on the single misdemeanor charge of perjury related to the arrest and subsequent in-custody suicide of Sandra Bland.
Nearly two hundred open carry advocates gathered on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol to celebrate “uncovering day” for gun owners who are licensed to carry.
2015 ushered in the first new governor for the Lone Star State in over a decade. In January, the new governor, former Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, was sworn in and immediately went to work on securing the border between Texas and Mexico and took the strongest stand of any state’s governor in attacking sanctuary cities.
Texans with a “Concealed Handgun License” or the new “License to Carry” can openly carry a handgun in accordance with the new law that went into effect at midnight on Friday. Other new laws expanding protections of law abiding gun owners also went into effect. The Campus Carry law has not yet taken effect.
The City of Lubbock, Texas, is still recovering from a historic blizzard that left massive snow drifts and power outages. The storm dumped the third largest accumulation of snow in the city’s history on the streets and highways. Tropical storm force winds piled massive drifts and created power outages for residents.
Two Texas homeowners shot and wounded a man attempting to break into their Pasadena home. The man is recovering from his wounds in an area hospital.
To read local and national news, one could draw a conclusion that Texan’s are more concerned about the coming open carry law that they are about tornadoes, floods and blizzards. Perhaps the reality is it is the media that is more concerned about the change in Texas gun laws.
The young man known as the “affluenza” teen, Ethan Couch, has been detained in Mexico along with his mother.
Texas’ homegrown grocery chain, H-E-B, announced it will forbid the open carry of firearms in their 316 stores when the law changes later this week. On Friday, Texas law will change to allow holders of a Concealed Handgun License to openly carry handguns that are secured by belt or shoulder holsters.
A Christmas day fire was called “suspicious” by arson investigators damaged a southwest Houston mosque. The two-alarm fire began about 2:45 on Friday. Arson investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said the fire appears to be suspicious because of multiple points of origin.
A Dallas area woman is joining her on in jail after she allegedly threatened to kill one of the jurors who convicted her son of murder in July.
The Houston Chronicle attacked an accurate Breitbart Texas report on an Islamic tribunal in January by asserting the same facts Breitbart reported. The Breitbart article revealed the existence of an “Islamic Tribunal” operating in Irving, Texas.
A security guard working an overnight shift outside a closed convenience store was ambushed by a pair of armed gunmen early Monday morning.
An armed Texan broke up a home invasion in the Houston suburb of Spring as two men were leaving with their loot.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted out a reassuring message about the federal government’s anti-terrorism screening process Monday night. He quoted one of the questions in the K-1 fiancé visa application form.
The Houston Police Department is preparing for the new year and Texas’ new open carry law by publishing information designed to help eliminate confusion on the law.
The Houston Police Department (HPD) is asking for the public’s assistance in its efforts to combat the plague of human trafficking and sex trafficking that happens in this city. Houston is regarded as one of the leading cities in the United States in this crime arena.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott addressed a graduating class of 102 new Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers Friday morning, calling them the “frontline of defense for our state and for our nation.”
Officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) fired shots at a vehicle driving recklessly towards the inspection station of an international bridge between Texas and Mexico on Thursday.
School districts across Texas are reporting the receipt of threats similar in nature to those received by other schools across the United States. The threats were determined not to be credible and schools were not shut down in Texas.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for the arrest of a Mexican national wanted on charges related to sex trafficking little girls and women. A massive digital billboard announced the reward for the wanted illegal alien.
A message sent to the parents and students of the Houston Independent School District (ISD) warns of a threat of violence to the district. The message says the threat is similar in nature to those received by Los Angeles, New York and Miami school districts.
Affordable Texas housing played a key role in Toyota’s 2014 decision to move 3,000 jobs from California to Texas. The housing issue was seen by employees as a big factor in their willingness to relocate from Torrance, California, to Plano, Texas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he will not sit idle while the federal government allows the flood of illegal alien children and families to flood into the state. He has ordered the state’s National Guard to remain in place along the Texas-Mexican border.
The Texas Legislature could look into new state-level immigration laws to give police more authority in immigration-related cases. During a meeting of the Texas House’s State Affairs Committee, Texas Deputy Attorney General Brantley Starr told legislators they could create state-level immigration laws if they were careful to carve out unique areas that did not conflict or step on federal immigration laws.
