Electric car company Tesla Motors is looking to bring its new $5 billion factory–and 6,500 job opportunities–to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, or Nevada, according to local media reports. Texas Governor Rick Perry said that it’s time to revisit the Lone
As Obamacare turned four years old Sunday, two trends have grown increasingly apparent for the law’s boosters: Texas’ uninsured are not dashing for “Affordable Care” and the Texas economy is not imploding as a result. There remains cause for celebration,
HOUSTON, TEXAS–Five individuals stand accused of armed conspiracy to detain and threaten foreign nationals–including women and children–for the purpose of forcing third parties to make ransom payments, as previously reported by Breitbart Texas. A criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas
77-year-old Dale Wray Fulford, known to friends as “Slaton,” of Lubbock, Texas faces 30 years in prison for repeatedly molesting a minor and recording the acts on a digital camera after entering a guilty plea according to wire reports. According to
A recent Facebook post by the Texas Young Democrats (TYD) appeared to be hypocritical in regards to left-of-center speech regulation. On March 20, the group posted a photograph of former Texas Governor Ann Richards holding a newspaper that reads “She Whups Him!”
On Wednesday Dallas will vote on a “single-use bag ban,” according to local reports. The vote could result in the instating of an “environmental fee ordinance,” under which retailers would be forced to charge customers 10 cents per bag or
49-year-old Eugenio Pedraza, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) supervisor, was found guilty in March of “conspiracy and five counts of falsifying government documents,” according to The McAllen Monitor. An indictment obtained by Breitbart Texas alleges that Pedraza,
This week U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra sentenced 36-year-old Jason Lee Villasana, a former police officer from Sabinal, Texas, to 15 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography and possessing an unregistered firearm. Villasana was also ordered to ten years of
Amid increasing scrutiny regarding legislator ethics, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis profited from government bond work as a co-bond counsel through her law firm Newby Davis PLLC, according to San Antonio press. Just last month, Newby Davis helped float a $201.5
UPDATED 10:30am Central, March 24: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Office announced that it dispatched “investigators and staff from its Environmental Protection Division to the Galveston Bay oil spill site,” according to a release submitted to Breitbart Texas. “The Office of
27-year-old Marisol Valdez of Eagle Pass, Texas will spend 12 years in prison for attempting to smuggle 25.72 kilograms of heroin into the U.S. from Mexico, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas. Valdez was also sentenced to five
Dallas resident 61-year-old Leroy Nelson pled guilty to submitting insurance claims totaling $5 million for road accidents that never occurred and now faces up to 30 years in federal prison and up to $500,000 in fines, according to an FBI press release.
San Antonio was recently granted $1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which lies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) according to a congressional statement submitted to Breitbart Texas. The grant was given through the agency’s Urban Areas
37-year-old Elva Navarro, owner of Bella Face and Beauty Spa in Hidalgo, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly offering illegal injections to customers according to an FBI statement. She is accused of violating Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and allegedly failing
49-year-old Homer Ortiz of Pharr, Texas was arrested after allegedly forcing a one-year-old into sexual acts, according to Pharr Police Department. According to Pharr police reports, a family friend of Ortiz reportedly witnessed the sexual abuse taking place in the kitchen
The Holder Department of Justice (DOJ) rejected a request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to appoint a special prosecutor for the investigation into the IRS scandal in a letter released this week. The DOJ argued that it saw no apparent
Breitbart Texas recently reported on 109 individuals found locked inside an alleged human “stash house” located just outside of Houston city limits. Houston Police Department (HPD) spokesman John Cannon confirmed to Breitbart Texas that five suspected human smugglers were taken into custody
Texas continues to outshine the nation when it comes to job growth and healthy economy, according to new data released by the State of Texas. This is evident in the Texas unemployment rate, which is just around 5.7 percent. The
The Wendy Davis campaign took aim at Red State Women, a group recently formed to provide a strong, cohesive voice for Texas women after a spokesperson said that although they oppose Davis’ Texas Equal Pay Act, “we believe Texas women want and deserve equal pay,”
Roughly 5,591 pounds of marijuana was seized in a Laredo, Texas home, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) press release submitted to Breitbart Texas late Wednesday. A tip to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) about drugs being stored in a
Sally Beauty supply, a retail chain that sells hair and beauty items based in Denton, was hacked earlier this month according to a release obtained by Breitbart Texas. The company hired Verizon’s forensics firm to investigate the incident and pinpoint exactly how
The Medical Director of A Medical House Calls (A Medical), a Texas-based medical house call company for Medicare recipients, was sentenced to federal prison for a health care fraud conviction. According to a press release from the Texas Attorney General
43-year-old Erika Susan Perdue, a wealthy socialite grandmother of Dallas, will spend 14 years in federal prison for running a child porn operation, according to court records obtained by Breitbart Texas. She was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of transporting and
