Texas
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Backpage Plea to Texas Sex Trafficking Charge Turns On CEO's Admission to Brokering Adult Prostitution
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer turned over the company and seven other executives in exchange for leniency.
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ACLU Sues Texas County over Pay-or-Stay Bail System
Magistrates don't consider risk or ability to pay, leaving a system where people are stuck if they're poor.
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Texas Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for the Crime of Not Realizing She Couldn’t Vote
An obsession with election fraud leads to cruel punishments.
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D.A. in Waco Biker Case Ordered to Stop 'Revenge Porn' Harassment of Ex-Defendant
Prosecutors sent "private, intimate sexual images" taken from an arrestee's phone to lawyers representing all 177 defendants.
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City of Dallas Sues Nightclub Over Mural Honoring Fallen Officers
The tribute to five slain officers is allegedly a code violation.
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She Was Caught Shoplifting When She Was 12. Why Is There a Warrant Out for Her Arrest 25 Years Later?
The now working mother says the fine is bizarre, unfair.
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Brickbat: Damn Dirty Ape
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Brickbat: Quick on the Trigger
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School Chief Threatens to Punish Student Protesters Who Skip Classes by...Banning Them from Attending Classes
He'd also like everyone to trim their hair so it doesn't touch their ears.
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Texas Cops Charge 'Child Sex Trafficking Victim' With Felony
They also arrested her younger friend for prostitution.
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Dallas Cash Bail System Leaves Poor Languishing In Jail, Lawsuit Says
"The county operates a wealth-based system of detention. Every day people are held in jail simply because they can’t afford very small amounts of money."
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Texas Cops Shoot and Kill 6-Year-Old While Shooting and Killing Woman They Were Chasing
Will apparently be investigating themselves.
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Fort Worth Police Sgt. Fired After Punching and Tasering of Domestic Dispute Victim
Naturally, a police union worries this will have "a chilling effect" on cops' ability to do their jobs.
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Breaking News Before Local Cops Do Lands Laredo Vlogger With Felony Charges
Sharing arrest and accident info on Facebook before cops can tell "official" media is not OK, say Laredo police—and nevermind that one of their own was the source.
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Butterflies, Border Walls, and Property Rights
The North American Butterfly Association says Border Patrol agents have harassed employees and damaged property at the National Butterfly Center.
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Gun Control Failures Allowed a Criminal to Carry Out the Texas Church Shooting
What the Air Force knew about Devin Patrick Kelley, but didn't report, should have prevented a gun sale.
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Left and Right React to the Texas Shooting
With so much still unknown, politicians should take a deep breath before offering definitive solutions.
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What We Know So Far About the Texas Church Shooting
26 people have been killed at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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Mass Shooting at a Texas Church
More than 20 (and shooter) reportedly dead.
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Greg Abbott's Fair-Weather Federalism
The Texas governor sells out his supposed principles for billions in federal aid.