The University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law on Monday released the first national registry of exoneration cases with data on more than 2,000 cases from the last 23 years.... Read more»
The Rio Grande near El Paso has run dry — a situation that hasn’t occurred in almost 10 years — removing a key source of water for the city. “There is currently no water in the river.”... Read more»
Investors and financial analysts have their eyes on a bankruptcy case, pending in a Dallas courtroom, that they say could systematically shift how American firms do business with Mexican companies.... Read more»
In what the leader of an environmental group said was a surprising and stunning blow to an effort to stop a Mexican company from mining coal on the Texas-Mexico border, an American Indian tribe has backed out of the fight.... Read more»
Citing an unprecedented level of unaccompanied illegal-immigrant minors breaching the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter Friday asking the Obama administration to address the “humanitarian crisis.”... Read more»
A controversial immigration-enforcement policy is at the forefront of the sheriff’s race in Travis County, Texas.... Read more»1
Police in Edinburg, Texas, received a phone call Wednesday morning from an immigrant trapped inside a so-called “stash house.” The caller said more than 100 people were locked inside and they had gone days without food or water.... Read more»
The bodies of 9 people were found Friday morning hanged from a Nuevo Laredo bridge. The mutilated bodies of 14 others were found later in the day, reports said.... Read more»
A district judge in Austin has ordered Texas to temporarily stop its enforcement of a rule that would have removed 49 Planned Parenthood clinics from the state’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program starting May 1.... Read more»
A 46-year-old Florida man found himself in hot water on Tuesday when he tried to bring fruit into the United States. Forbidden fruit, that is. And some pork rinds.... Read more»
As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday for and against SB 1070, several other states, including Texas, that have passed — or have attempted to pass — similar legislation are certain to keep a close eye on the proceedings.... Read more»
When the Obama administration announced in December that it would draw down the number of National Guard units that patrol the southern border, critics said the decision would leave Texas vulnerable to spillover violence from Mexico.... Read more»
Beer and wine wholesalers have pumped substantial cash into the campaigns of several American Legislative Exchange Council politicians who have sponsored voter ID bills in their states.... Read more»
Now it’s a place for hiking or to stop at Dairy Queen but 150 years ago Sunday, it was the site of a small but violent engagement between Union and Confederate troops.... Read more»1
Uranium has been mined in Texas for decades, but companies see a potential hike in demand for their product.... Read more»
By November, the EPA is supposed to complete a plan that could regulate emissions from dozens of Texas’ industrial plants, with the goal of reducing haze at parks.... Read more»
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