One of the Republican candidates in the race to replace Randy Neugebauer as U.S. Representative in the 19th Congressional District of Texas has a history of making political donations to political action committees (PACs) that made contributions to Wendy Davis and other Democrat candidates.
In 1871, the Texas legislature banned carrying guns outside the home–a move largely directed at controlling blacks during the Reconstruction era. That ban was altered in 1995, when Texas adopted the concealed carry of handguns, yet a prohibition against openly carrying handguns in public remained on the books. It took the Republican-controlled 2015 Texas legislature and Governor Greg Abbott (R) to abolish that final prohibition, thereby making it legal to carry handguns openly in public in the Lone Star State–and achieving liberty for all.
The Tamaulipas state government is continuing look at various ways to muffle news outlets in order to show a positive side to the area and to minimize the out of control violence in the region and to present a positive side to things.
Policías mexicanos mataron a un hombre armado del Cártel de Los Zetas durante un breve enfrentamiento en una zona rural cerca de esta ciudad fronteriza. Aunque las autoridades encontraron varios pistoleros de Los Zetas, sólo uno se enfrentó contra las autoridades, mientras que el resto huyó.
Mexican police officers killed a Los Zetas cartel gunman during a short clash in a rural area near this border city. While authorities found multiple Los Zetas gunmen, only one faced off against authorities while the rest fled into brush.
Fernando Benítez, the Tijuana-based attorney dubbed a “rock star” for a stellar track record in winning high-profile cases, confirmed for U.S. media Friday his representation of “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch. He insists his client’s constitutional and civil rights may have been violated.
As brutal drug violence in the Mexican states of Michoacán and Guerrero continues, a Mexican prosecutor is claiming that vigilante groups supposedly battling drug cartels alongside the government have been extensively infiltrated by criminals.
A woman who blew a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit, had her charges dismissed by the judge after he heard evidence that her gut ferments alcohol from food. The condition is called “auto-brewery syndrome.”
Texas therefore joins most other states that allow citizens to either openly carry guns or carry concealed weapons, with the proviso they have a permit. However, this still puts Texas behind several other states where gun owners may carry weapons without permission of the state, including two largely liberal states.
Nearly two hundred open carry advocates gathered on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol to celebrate “uncovering day” for gun owners who are licensed to carry.
2015 ushered in the first new governor for the Lone Star State in over a decade. In January, the new governor, former Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, was sworn in and immediately went to work on securing the border between Texas and Mexico and took the strongest stand of any state’s governor in attacking sanctuary cities.
Tonya Couch, the mother of fugitive “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, was formally charged with allegedly hindering the apprehension of her son, yet her attorneys insist she did not do anything wrong, breaking no Texas laws. Breitbart Texas reported the charge, a third-degree felony, carries a 2-10 year prison sentence. Her bail was set at $1 million. The charge stems from Couch purportedly helping her son flee the country to Mexico.
Texans with a “Concealed Handgun License” or the new “License to Carry” can openly carry a handgun in accordance with the new law that went into effect at midnight on Friday. Other new laws expanding protections of law abiding gun owners also went into effect. The Campus Carry law has not yet taken effect.
The Texas blizzard “Goliath” may have claimed more than 30,000 animals this week in Texas.
A Texas judge has found probable cause to hold a Muslim man who is charged with setting the Christmas Day arson fire of his own mosque. He will be held over the weekend pending a second bond hearing set for Monday.
An American woman is believed to have been the leader of a robbery crew that had been preying on people who were traveling into Mexico as they drove through the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Despite the inconvenient fact that a devout Muslim has been arrested for a Christmas Day arson that devastated a mosque in Houston Texas, the left-wing propagandists at Salon have not bothered to update a wildly misleading headline that blames the
As allegations of human rights abuses reportedly committed by police and military forces have persisted in Mexico, the U.S. has started to withhold aid payments. For many years, the U.S. has been providing security aid to Mexico, much of it through the Mérida Initiative as a way to counter the efforts of violent drug cartels.
The Supreme Court of Texas has issued new rules and forms governing minors seeking abortions. The action was taken in connection with pro-life legislation passed during the 2015 Texas legislative session.
The City of Lubbock, Texas, is still recovering from a historic blizzard that left massive snow drifts and power outages. The storm dumped the third largest accumulation of snow in the city’s history on the streets and highways. Tropical storm force winds piled massive drifts and created power outages for residents.
Using surveillance video from other area businesses to identify the arsonist, Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested and charged with starting the Christmas Day fire that devastated a Houston, Texas mosque. Moore is a devout Muslim who attended this same
Terror continues to take hold of this border city as the number of gruesome beheadings by the Los Zetas drug cartel continues to grow. Just days after Los Zetas had beheaded three informants and made a gory show of spreading their heads around the city, they have done it again.
El terror continúa apoderándose de esta ciudad fronteriza mientras que el número de terribles decapitaciones por Los Zetas Cártel sigue creciendo. Apenas unos días después de que Los Zetas habían decapitado a tres informantes e hicieron un sangriento espectáculo con el esparcimiento de las cabeza alrededor de la ciudad, lo hicieron por cuarta vez.
Texas lawyers are manning legal hotlines to assist victims of the disastrous storms and tornadoes in Texas.
Texas and U.S. officials released details of the capture of “Affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya, 48, who will be charged with allegedly “hindering” the apprehension of her fugitive son.
A Mexican fisherman is accused of ramming a U.S. Coast Guard boat in an effort to elude capture and flee back to Mexico. The move resulted in one Coast Guard member being injured in the crash after the Mexican boat struck him.
