Cleveland Browns Quarterback Johnny Manziel is reported to be “safe and in no danger” after a helicopter search by the Fort Worth Police Department. Officers were searching for Manziel in reference to a possible assault of an ex-girlfriend that may have occurred early Saturday morning.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Some locals call the long, arid valley Tierra Caliente, or the Hot Land. To others it’s Infiernillo, which means Little Hell. Such colorful nicknames refer to more than just the scorching climate: the Hot Land is also the newest front line in the Mexican Drug War.
U.S. and Mexican authorities participated in a major cross-border operation that netted 24 arrests near the Arizona-Mexico border. Social media activity peaked on Friday, January 31, mentioning helicopters seen flying back and forth across the border in the Tucson Sector.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Suspected cartel cash smugglers failed in their attempt to use a small private airplane to move a large quantity of money from the Texas border city of McAllen to the Mexican city of Monterrey. According to information provided by Mexican authorities to Breitbart Texas, the airplane is a U.S. Cessna registered to Carlos Humberto Diez De Pinos in Laredo, Texas.
Seven investigators in a Missouri Crimes Against Children police unit are suspended pending an investigation into whether they failed to investigate cases where children were sexually assaulted in a timely manner.
Nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana was found in a box truck that was hauling a load of roofing shingles late last week in El Paso, Texas.
Federal, state and local law enforcement officials kicked off a new joint task force in the Rio Grande Valley aimed at fighting the rising threat against children from sexual predators. Arrests of sex offenders, including previously deported illegal alien sex offenders has been on the increase across this border region.
Massive job cuts in the oil sector and falling oil prices have led to a slowdown of new construction in Houston. The cuts have impacted both residential and commercial construction.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) confirmed six travel-related cases of Zika virus in the state, as of late Friday, with four more cases suspected. Public health officials and medical providers are bracing for more cases, worried this could be the tip of the iceberg.
Health officials in Bexar County (San Antonio, Texas) have confirmed they are investigating six cases for the Zika virus in this single Texas county.
A Texas juvenile judge ordered “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch to remain in juvenile custody, at least, temporarily.
The Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion today ruling in favor of the Kountze Cheerleaders who had Bible verses on their school football banners. The case has received national media attention.
Houston Cop and Wife Pleaded Guilty to Transporting Illegal Aliens
A team of gunmen crashed a party setting off a shootout that killed one man and injured another in an upper class neighborhood in this border city.
Un grupo de hombres armados irrumpieron en una fiesta realizando un tiroteo que mató a un hombre e hirió a otro en un fraccionamiento de clase alta en esta ciudad fronteriza.
Given Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán’s talent for escaping repeatedly from maximum security prisons, several extra measures are being taken to keep him in place until his extradition to the U.S. However, now Guzmán is complaining that he’s not sleeping and guards are engaging in cruel behavior directed at him.
The owners of a Houston tortilla factory have been arrested and face federal charges of hiring illegal immigrants to work in their facility.
Briscoe Cain, the Texas legal counsel for Operation Rescue says Planned Parenthood invoices show that fetal tissue was being purchased for medical research. Cain, and David Daleidon, the indicted president for Center for Medical Progress, claim they have financial documents which show wrongdoing on the part of Houston’s Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
School choice advocates expect thousands of Texas families, educators, and other supporters to rally in Austin at the south Capitol steps on Friday, Jan. 29, at 11 a.m. for 2016’s National School Choice Week.
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo recently made waves by facilitating a clandestine interview in Mexico between actor Sean Penn and notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán. However, her representatives and tabloids are reporting she feels betrayed by Penn for using her and not giving her more credit.
MCALLEN, Texas — An officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is facing federal bribery and computer misuse charges following his Thursday morning arrest.
Ethan Couch, the Texas 18-year-old known for his “affluenza” defense in the fatal 2013 drunk driving accident that killed four people and injured others, arrived at the Dallas-Ft. Worth International airport just before 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, on an AeroMexico flight, NBC DFW reported. He could be seen walking through the airport escorted by law enforcement. Until this week, Couch fought his extradition back to the United States through a high-profile attorney in Mexico.
A Texas man who was convicted of killing a Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville, Texas. This was the second execution carried out in the state of Texas this year and the second in as many weeks.
MCALLEN, Texas — The recent conviction in U.S. federal court of two corrupt Mexican officials has sent shockwaves around the political elite in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities have arrested the top Zeta figure in this border city along with three of his personal bodyguards.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Ejecuciones del cártel continúan golpeando a esta ciudad debido a que dos facciones de Los Zetas luchan por el control de la región.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartel executions continue to rock this city as two factions of Los Zetas fight for control of the region.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – Las autoridades mexicanas detuvieron a un alto jefe de Los Zetas en esta ciudad fronteriza, junto con tres de sus guardaespaldas.
The New York Times published an editorial today saying that the Harris County, Texas, indictments of the two individuals who took videos of executives at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston “should cause politicians to back away from an anti-abortion group that will stop at nothing to attack Planned Parenthood.”
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been attacked with a football-sized rock by a Mexican national running narcotics in the Tucson Sector–an area controlled by Mexico’s Sinaloa Federation (cartel). The agent is recovering and was able to arrest the criminal despite being injured.
McAllen, Texas — More than 200 illegal aliens have been stuffed in car trunks, sealed into tractor trailers by human smugglers, or placed in danger through other tactics this fiscal year as they attempt to get around inspection checkpoints.The period of time is from October 1, 2015 through today.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Two U.S. Border Patrol agents and one unsuspecting motorist sustained injuries during at least two separate crashes prompted by yet another drug smuggling attempt in this border city which resulted in a chase.
Texas Republicans will finish out this legislative term with a 99-51 majority after a victory by John Lujan in the special election to fill the unexpired term for HD118. Lujan defeated Thomas Uresti, the brother of State Senator Carlos Uresti, by a 52-48 percent margin.
The 18-year-old known as the “affluenza” teen, Ethan Couch, may be back in Texas as early as Thursday now that his attorney in Mexico dropped the injunction that blocked Couch’s deportation.
One person is dead and another sustained non-life threatening injuries following a law enforcement raid on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building where a standoff had been underway throughout the month of January.
Authorities say shots were fired Tuesday during the arrest of members of an armed group that has occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks.
The Canton Ohio Police Department cop who lost his K9 partner was in Texas on Monday and he selected a new K9 that was donated from a Houston-based nonprofit, K9s4COPS.
A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, has declined to take any action against Houston-based Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast but has indicted the two people who took undercover videos. Texas leaders responded to the indictments of the pro-life activists by vowing to continue their investigation into the practices at Texas abortion facilities.
Instead of indicting Planned Parenthood executives for apparently offering to trade baby-parts, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson persuaded the grand jury to indicted the producer of the videos, David Daleiden.
The call for school choice remains a high priority for top Texas lawmakers Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick during National School Choice Week.
