A top Los Zeta cartel associate in Texas who is serving a 20-year sentence for money laundering will now serve an additional five years in prison for trying to bribe a judge in Texas.
The Mexican military rescued 31 illegal immigrants that were being held against their will by cartel members in the southern Tamaulipas port city of Altamira.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott gathered a group of elected officials and members of the military together on Monday to sign a proclamation recognizing February 2nd as Chris Kyle Day, in honor of the native Texan and Navy SEAL who was the most lethal sniper in American military history.
DONNA, Texas — A recent scandal that rocked this border community involving a teacher who allegedly had an affair with a student appears to have been nothing more than a political ploy by one faction aiming to get the superintendent out of office.
The most recent arrest of a nurse’s aide at a Texas border school accused of having a relationship with a student is the latest of a string of scandals where school employees have been arrested or accused of having sexual relations with the students in their care.
MCALLEN, Texas — A four-year-old boy from the Texas border town of Roma has been returned to his family following his kidnapping by cartel gunmen in Mexico.
Texas border sheriff’s deputies seized close to 700 pounds of marijuana hidden in an underground bunker.
A Texas border cop has resigned following his arrest on drug possession charges. Michael Anthony Moreno, a 7-year veteran patrol officer with the Edinburg Police Department, resigned from his job, police spokesman Lieutenant Oscar Trevino told Breitbart Texas.
When he was inaugurated as the new Lieutenant Governor last week, Dan Patrick spoke about his three top priorities in this legislative session: reducing property and business taxes, securing the border, and enacting school choice. All of these policies have widespread support in Texas, and especially among the grassroots Republicans who gave Texas’ leaders their power in the 2014 elections. This bold agenda should provide focus and achievable goals for legislators as they begin their work during the 84th legislative session.
Three people have died and more than 50 are injured following a gas explosion outside of a children’s hospital in a Mexico City suburb.
A traffic stop of a suspicious vehicle led U.S. Border Patrol agents to two duffel bags filled with 135 pounds of cocaine, with a reported value of $4.3 million.
The increased prominence of a Texas State Representative’s daughter as a lobbyist on education issues is raising questions about the propriety of him serving as chair of the House Public Education Committee.
The man identified as one of the Gulf Cartel’s top money men on the Texas side of the border will spend 14 years in federal prison.
Two members of the feared Los Zetas Cartel allegedly attempted to bribe Mexican soldiers near the border city of Nuevo Laredo. To their surprise, the soldiers rejected the bribe and arrested them.
One way pro-life Texans can set their expectations for the legislative session is by looking at the committee appointments in the House, which could come within the next several days.
Several prominent Texas elected officials quickly issued statements publicly declaring their support for former Governor Rick Perry and denouncing the case against him as politically motivated, after news broke on Tuesday that Judge Bert Richardson had ruled against Perry’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges against him.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is firing back against a liberal blogger, telling Breitbart Texas in an exclusive interview that the blogger’s headline was an “outright lie” and twisted his words about the abortion bill that recently failed in Congress to make it sound like he said the complete opposite of what he actually said.
An illegal alien from Mexico will spend seven years in prison for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the Texas border city of Laredo.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announced on Monday that he had formed a “Lieutenant Governor Grassroots Advisory Board,” comprised of grassroots conservative leaders and activists from all over Texas.
An estimated 1,000 Texans will march in the Texas Rally for School Choice that will be held on the south steps of the State Capitol building in Austin on Friday, January 30 at 10 a.m. This is one of the many events being held during the fifth annual National School Choice Week that kicked off on Sunday, January 25, and will run through Saturday, January 31.
The body of a kidnapped journalist from the Mexican state of Veracruz has been found after weeks of searching, and the former police officer accused of killing him is claiming that the mayor of an area town ordered the murder.
Breitbart Texas’ Managing Director Brandon Darby responded to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) claim that the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector is “the most wide open unprotected sector that we have on the U.S. – Mexico border.” Darby said, “He’s dead wrong about the RGV sector. In fact, he’s substantially wrong about his border security approach across the board.”
With the election of a new Texas governor and lieutenant governor who didn’t run to the mushy middle to get elected, conservative Republican legislators were given a mandate – the proverbial keys to the governance car, and when Texas voters hand you the keys, you’d better drive!
Trey Trainor, one of the attorneys representing Empower Texans President Michael Quinn Sullivan in his ongoing battle with the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC), fired back at the TEC, the media, and critics who have questioned Sullivan’s claims of residency in Denton County, saying that “the law is very clear” and questioning the extraordinary lengths and expense that the TEC has devoted to this case.
A former Texas Border politician who pleaded guilty to bribery and worked as an informant wearing a wire with agents is now in hot water for allegedly keeping the wire and refusing to cooperate with authorities.
