Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, has been accused of killing four women, including one transgender woman, and kidnapping a fifth woman, who escaped and alerted law enforcement.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been accused of going on a nearly two-week-long “serial killing spree” that came to an end on Saturday after he was arrested him in connection with the deaths of four women and the kidnapping of a fifth woman.
Webb County-Zapata County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz told The Texas Tribune that Juan
The findings highlight how six decades of industrial dumping, farming pollution, and water plant and distribution pipe deterioration have taken a toll on local water systems.
As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency. The
A new Texas nonprofit led by President-elect Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to Trump in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity.
A new Texas nonprofit led by Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to the freshly-minted president during inauguration weekend — all in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to
“You could be an escaped felon. You could be a bank robber. You could have a dead body in the trunk of that car for all that officer knows.”
"Comply, then complain" and similar phrases could become all too familiar to Texas' newest drivers, as lawmakers work this week to push two solutions to the rift between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve. State legislators are exploring having Texas schools teach students how to act when stopped by law enforcement, and the
In a time were police shootings of unarmed black men are being televised almost weekly, the former GOP presidential candidate contended that the unfair treatment of blacks by police was simply an issue of perception.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said members of the black community "perceive that law enforcement does not treat them fairly," and that's led officers to fear doing their jobs. Cruz was interviewed at the Texas Tribune Festival by Tribune CEO Evan Smith. Feature photo | Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex.,
While serving on the education board in the late 2000s, the same publisher penned a book, One Nation Under God, that argued against the separation of church and state.
The publisher of a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that scholars, elected officials and Hispanic activists have decried as racist and inaccurate is defending the high school text ahead of a public hearing on the book Tuesday before the Texas State Board of Education. "There's never been a book in the history of SBOE that's been
As Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s health leaders make public service announcements saying Texas is on heightened alert for mosquito-to-human transmission of the virus, which has been linked to birth defects, many advocates for the uninsured have a different goal in mind.
When Texas officials announced earlier this month they would allow Medicaid to pay for mosquito repellent for low-income pregnant women — a move meant to stop the spread of the Zika virus — health care advocates greeted the news with tempered enthusiasm. They saw it as a tacit endorsement by Republican state leaders of the usefulness of
