HOUSTON, Texas – Defense lawyers for a man charged with executing a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy in Houston, Texas, attempt to avoid lethal injection by engaging in a smear campaign against the murdered victim. A defense lawyer for the man charged denies that he tries to smear the deputy.
City officials in a small East Texas city say that they have scheduled to remove a sign stating “Jesus Welcomes You to Hawkins.”
A Texas lawyer from Austin has been arrested for allegedly hiring a hitman to commit a murder. The man, 62-year-old James N. Walker, has been charged with criminal solicitation of capital murder, a first-degree felony, reports Texas Lawyer magazine.
Senator Konni Burton (R-Fort Worth) raised questions on Twitter early Monday morning about The Texas Tribune accepting money from the Texas General Land Office (GLO). The “corporate sponsorship” by the GLO was being publicly questioned by the 2015 freshman senator.
A measure in the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Friday to temporarily suspend the availability of any funds to Planned Parenthood of America, Inc. or any of its affiliates, for one year during an investigation of the abortion provider. The moratorium of federal funding is entitled the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that would protect babies born alive during abortion by making it a federal crime to kill the baby after it is born, either by an overt act, or through gross negligence. The bill, entitled the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act was introduced by Congressman Trent Franks.
Briefs continue to be filed in support of Abigal Noel Fisher, the woman who has been fighting against racial preferences in college admissions at the University of Texas at Austin since she first filed suit in 2008. The U.S. Supreme
A notice filed by special prosecutors in the securities fraud cases against Texas Attorney General Paxton raises potentially exculpatory, as well as damaging evidence. Clint Broden, a lawyer from Dallas who is double-board certified in criminal law told Breitbart Texas, “The notice could be a double-edged sword.”
A Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) worker has been found guilty of official oppression. The worker, Rebekah Ross Thonginh, is one of three individuals who were charged in connection with a CPS investigation of a case involving a special needs teenager who was murdered in 2012.
During the Republican presidential debates on Wednesday evening, Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted that he would recommend to the winning candidate that they appoint Texas Supreme Court Justice Don R. Willett to the U.S. Supreme Court. The topic of what kind of judges the candidates would appoint to serve on the nation’s highest court was a question posed to the candidates during the debates.
Getting information from the Texas Attorney General’s Office (OAG) about areas wherein the AG is representing the state, is as the proverbial phrase “like pulling teeth.” Media spokespersons for the Lone Star state’s top lawyer, Attorney General Ken Paxton, report that it is the policy of the OAG not to comment on pending litigation. Like the chorus of a song, this refrain has been the repeated response to any request for information from the agency. The contrast between the previous Office of Texas Attorney General, and the present administration, is great.
An illegal immigrant from Mexico was arrested at a gynecological office in Houston, Texas, for allegedly presenting a fake ID. The staff notified law enforcement authorities that she had presented a falsified drivers license with her health insurance card.
The New York Army National Guard is sending one of its two UH-72 Lakota light utility helicopters and a four-man crew to the Arizona-Mexico border on Wednesday to assist with illegal activity and illegal immigration. The helicopter and its crew is being deployed to Marana, Arizona.
Two high school students were killed after a Houston Independent School District school bus plunged from an overpass early Tuesday morning. The bus driver and two other students have been seriously injured. All survivors have suffered injuries.
A former Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) supervisor arrested on a felony evidence tampering charge will bring the Abilene woman to trial soon. The charge against the CPS supervisor is in connection with a highly publicized 2012 Abilene child dehydration and starvation death case.
“It is ironic that we are about to remember 9/11, both in 2001, and in 2012 with Benghazi on the day the Iran nuclear resolution is being considered by Congress,” former Florida congressman Allen B. West said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas. West also called the refugee migration from the middle east “a huge danger.” West, a black American, also called this a “time of division” that is “part of a premeditated plan over the last 6 ½-7 years.” He said the Black Lives Matter movement is part of that plan for division.
A disabled veteran who placed a pro-cop message of “Police Lives Matter” on his truck claims to have become the victim of a vandalism attack.
Twenty-eight Texans were honored on the House floor of the Texas Capitol today as Governor Greg Abbott presented the Star of Texas Awards. The awards are presented to police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel who have shown extraordinary courage and have been killed or seriously injured while serving in the line of duty. September 11th is Texas First Responder’s Day.
A Texas grand jury handed down eight indictments in the sausage sodomy case where five Texas volunteer firefighters allegedly sodomized a male firefighter with a chorizo sausage. A woman who allegedly filmed the sexual assault with her cell phone, and the chief and assistant chief accused of covering up the assault, have also been charged.
A Texas judge has given Child Protective Services (CPS) emergency custody of two boys left at a Houston fire station on Monday night. The state’s “Baby Moses” law does not apply because of the children’s ages. Neither parent attended the court hearing to decide the children’s temporary fate.
Indiana Police reported that an unknown individual made a 9/11 bomb threat to blow-up a middle school in Martinsville, Indiana, on the anniversary of the terrorists attacks of 2001.
Houstonians have turned out in the tens of thousands to support the “Pray for Police” campaign. The lines of those waiting to get a free light blue plastic wristband bearing the inscription “Pray for Police” and the hashtag #P4P, goes on for blocks in downtown Houston.
A Texas couple claims that a doctor in El Salvador sold their newborn baby to human traffickers because of his fairer skin. The child was switched at birth when the mother gave birth while in her native country. The father is white.
A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) employee has been arrested for allegedly accepting $1,000-$2,000 bribes to issue Texas driver licenses to illegal aliens who did not legally qualify for those driver licenses. She is accused of fraudulently inputting into the DPS computer system that the illegal aliens were born in the United States.
A Texas community has set an example for the nation in their peaceful gatherings responding to the senseless execution of a peace officer who lived and worked in the neighborhood. Thousands of people have been respectfully gathering at the gas station where Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth was murdered on August 29th.
Hate speech and graffiti calling for violence against cops has spread across Texas. Grafitti has recently appeared in both Austin, and in Houston, Texas. Violence-inflaming statements in Austin proclaim – “Run Over Cops At Traffic Stops; Shoot Them In The Cop Car!”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for police officers across the state of Texas to honor the funeral of slain Harris County Deputy Sheriff Darren Goforth on Friday. The Governor asks that all police officers across the state “stand with law enforcement” by turning on their emergency lights for one-minute to mark the beginning of the deputy’s funeral being held in Houston.
Following the execution of a sheriff’s deputy in Harris County, graffiti images calling for violence against police show a police officer with a gun pointed to his head are being painted on property around Houston, Texas.These taggings follow the murder of Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth was shot in the head execution-style Friday night as he was putting gas in his patrol car. The suspect who shot the uniformed deputy unloaded 15 rounds into his head and body.
Funeral services for Deputy Darren Goforth has been set for Friday at 1:00 p.m. at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. The mega-church is the fifth largest in the country and can accommodate thousands of people.
A video made by a black activist asking the president and other leaders to denounce the #BlackLivesMatter movement has gone viral on Facebook. He calls the movement “a racist movement,” one that is “racist to the core.” He says the movement has only caused more disunion and hate among Americans.
Armed Black Panther members marched in front of the Waller County jail and shouted, “You’re gonna stop doing what you’re doing, or we will start creeping up on you in the darkness.”
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson read the charges against alleged cop killer Shannon Miles and said he shot the deputy a total of 15 times. The man accused of shooting Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth appeared in court in Houston, Texas, on Monday morning surrounded by a dozen deputies.
HOUSTON, Texas — One night after Deputy Darren Goforth was executed at a Chevron station in Houston, Texas, over a thousand people gathered at the site to memorialize the man who was apparently murdered simply because he wore a police uniform. There was an outpouring of support for Harris County Sheriff Deputy Goforth, and for law enforcement officers and their families.
HOUSTON, Texas – Authorities in Harris County have identified the alleged killer of a Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy as Shannon Juruary Miles, 31. Breitbart Texas has learned that Miles has an extensive history with law enforcement in Harris County. Miles is being charged with capital murder involving the killing of a police officer. His extensive criminal history includes trespassing, criminal mischief, resisting arrest, evading detention. It appears he had a state jail felony arrest for criminal mischief, but the charge was pleaded down to a misdemeanor charge.
A “person of interest” in connection with the Friday night execution style murder of a Texas sheriff’s deputy is currently in custody at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. The man was taken into custody after a search warrant was executed very early Saturday morning within blocks of where a Harris County, Texas, sheriff’s deputy was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range.
HOUSTON, Texas — A Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot execution style at a gas station while reportedly in full uniform. The deputy was filling up his patrol car. Witnesses told Breitbart Texas the shooter shot the deputy in the back of the head and then three times in the back. This tragedy comes within days of a group of Black radicals calling for “lynching whites and killing cops,” as Breitbart Texas recently reported. Witnesses also told Breitbart Texas that the shooter was a black male.
A human trafficking ring in Houston has been busted-up by local authorities after concerned relatives called them when coyotes refused to release a illegal immigrant family member unless they paid the coyotes extra money. The smugglers have been forcing the men to work and would send the money earned back to a criminal organization in Mexico.
Members of the #FYF911 or #FukYoFlag and #BlackLivesMatter movements called for the lynching and hanging of white people and cops. They encouraged others on a radio show Tuesday night to “turn the tide” and kill white people and cops to send a message about the killing of black people in America.
An illegal alien from Nicaragua, scheduled for execution in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday evening, received a stay of execution from the state’s highest criminal court.
#F***YoFlag movement supporters allegedly told a veteran who infiltrated their publicly posted conference call, “We are going to rape and gut your pregnant wife, and your f***ing piece of sh*t unborn creature will be hung from a tree.”
