
Both Dallas and Houston are known across the country for the number and variety of “Gentleman’s Clubs” or strip joints to be found in and around those cities. The Texas Alcoholic beverage Commission (TABC) keeps tabs of which liquor licensees run afoul of prostitution laws, and a records search reveals that 19 clubs across the state have been fined, or their licenses suspended in the last three years.
by Rob Milford30 Sep 2015, 8:00 AM PST0

Another human smuggling tragedy was averted when an 18 wheeler trailer was opened in South Texas and 37 illegal immigrants were discovered Friday afternoon. The immigrants had been left baking in scorching Texas sunlight.
by Rob Milford20 Sep 2015, 9:52 AM PST0

Operation Jade Helm 15 is over. Texas has prevailed.
by Rob Milford16 Sep 2015, 7:53 AM PST0

Millions of Texans who have missed the “National Ice Cream of Texas” were standing in line at the store when it was returned to the freezer in the last couple of weeks. While Texas-based Blue Bell Ice Cream returns to grocery stores across their 27 state distribution area over the next few months, the Houston Chronicle’s Mark Collette has been finding out why they company shut down and recalled their entire product line this spring.
by Rob Milford15 Sep 2015, 6:45 AM PST0

A vandal who carved his name on a sacred Texas shrine was arrested in San Antonio and charged for vandalizing The Alamo. Since ancient times, travelers and soldiers have left their marks around the world. The graffiti stretches back to the Roman Empire with the centurion equivalent of “Kilroy Was Here”.
by Rob Milford7 Sep 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

A major plant to repair and restore the Alamo was announced by Land Commissioner George P. Bush San Antonio on Wednesday. Before the end of the year, visitors will see work being done through the entire complex, with a planned 31.5 million dollars being spent over the next few years as the historic mission moves into its 4th century.
by Rob Milford3 Sep 2015, 2:37 PM PST0

About 350 individuals or investor groups swallowed the false claims that Disney was coming to Texas hook, line and sinker. Thomas Lucas, a 35-year-old from Plano, received 17 1/2 years in federal prison from Judge Amos Mazzant this week.
by Rob Milford3 Sep 2015, 2:24 PM PST0

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a total of 1203 bills following the legislative session this year, and more than half of those laws kicked in September 1 for the entire Lone Star State.
by Rob Milford1 Sep 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

Texas Governor Greg Abbott cheered, “Texans can rejoice today.” That was the cry at the state capitol early Monday afternoon when a clean and shiny Blue Bell delivery truck arrived at the south steps. The delivery drivers brought in gallons and gallons of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla and Dutch Chocolate.
by Rob Milford31 Aug 2015, 2:57 PM PST0

Citing aircraft safety concerns, the U.S. Army cancelled a massive airdrop that served as a major component of the Jade Helm ’15 operation. Five Air Force C-17 Globemasters loaded for war, with more than 500 veteran paratroopers from the legendary 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, looked to unload their human cargo over Texas.
by Rob Milford27 Aug 2015, 11:03 AM PST0

Republican Presidential Candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush told a group at a Florida rally about his Texas border trip and explained why a border wall wouldn’t be practical or conservative. Bush returned to the friendly turf of the Sunshine State on Wednesday, with a town hall style meeting in Pensacola.
by Rob Milford26 Aug 2015, 4:19 PM PST0

In a case that has moved at near “light speed” through the Federal justice system, former Williamson County Court-at-Law Judge Timothy Wright has been sentenced to 18 months in Federal Prison for illegal arms trading. His transactions included some sales to illegal aliens.
by Rob Milford25 Aug 2015, 12:39 PM PST0

A one million dollar bond is keeping a Texas woman from San Benito in jail — in Baldwin County, Alabama. She was arrested for allegedly trafficking illegal drugs packaged in sports drinks and lollipops.
by Rob Milford25 Aug 2015, 8:20 AM PST0

A quiet East Texas morning was ended with a gunshot on Tuesday at a convenience store when a 75-year-old Syrian army veteran shot and wounded a would-be robber.
by Rob Milford22 Aug 2015, 8:24 AM PST0

Ten illegal immigrants were rescued and captured in New Braunfels, Texas, Tuesday morning, when police found them on a north-bound Union Pacific freight train. New Braunfels is located almost 200 miles away from the Texas/Mexico border.
by Rob Milford21 Aug 2015, 4:49 AM PST0

Record-high beef prices have turned cattle rustling into big business once again in Texas. After five years of drought, beef prices are high, herds are small, and independent businessmen are cutting locks and hauling away the ranchers’ profits in cattle trailers.
by Rob Milford18 Aug 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

The once lost, now found, and much traveled gravestone of Lee Harvey Oswald has been returned to Texas. Oswald secured his place in history books on November 22, 1963 when he allegedly assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. He was also charged with the murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippitt on that same day.
by Rob Milford13 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

The Lone Star State leads the nation in an embarrassing category: the state with the most firearms and weapons confiscated at airport security checkpoints and in checked baggage.
by Rob Milford11 Aug 2015, 11:33 AM PST0

There has been another “mystery death” for an inmate in a Texas jail. A man was found dead in his jail cell in Georgetown on Saturday afternoon. Texas Rangers are investigating the mysterious death to determine what happened to 54 year old Francisco Vasquez.
by Rob Milford10 Aug 2015, 4:07 PM PST0

The news briefing at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office in Pensacola generated horrible images of the terror-filled final night of a family. Sheriff David Morgan described the brutal murders as part of a “ritualistic Wiccan killing.”
by Rob Milford5 Aug 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

San Antonio, Texas, is poised to become one of the largest police departments in the nation using body cameras, or ‘body cams’ as they are now being called. Body cams are video recorders that are worn on the officers’ uniform and records every minute of every shift.
by Rob Milford3 Aug 2015, 6:24 AM PST0

A South Carolina mother of three remains in jail on a grocery list of criminal charges, including felony child abuse, child neglect, and animal cruelty. One veteran deputy sheriff on scene said he had “never seen anything like it in my 20 years doing this.”
by Rob Milford31 Jul 2015, 10:07 AM PST0

A Texas pastor opened fire on a burglar who broke into his church Tuesday morning. Lee Marvin Blue, a 27-year-old transient who is known to the Baytown Police, allegedly forced a door open and was going from room to room, scooping up laptops and iPads, plus assorted video gear.
by Rob Milford29 Jul 2015, 3:08 AM PST0

A California court ruling could set free more than 1,700 women and children who are being held by the Department of Homeland Security in facilities in the town of Dilley and Karnes County, Texas. As of Monday, immigration judges were getting the word out to release these families, as part of a court decision in California that struck down the Obama administrations policy regarding the handling of Central American illegal immigrant families and unaccompanied minors.
by Rob Milford29 Jul 2015, 12:20 AM PST0

The police chief of a small town in Texas has found himself behind bars for what prosecutors describe as a sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl.
by Rob Milford28 Jul 2015, 9:06 AM PST0