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Package Bombs That Killed 2 in Austin, Texas, Are Connected, Police Say
The city of Austin, Texas, is on edge after authorities said Monday they believe that three package explosions occurring at different homes this month, causing the death of two people, are connected. As the Washington Post notes, the announcement has spiked fears in the Texas state capital, which is also hosting tens of thousands of…
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A Texas Judge Used Electric Shocks to Force a Defendant to Cooperate: Report
To understand this story, you first have to know that in Tarrant County, Texas, courtrooms, stun belts capable of carrying electric shocks are sometimes strapped to defendants’ legs. These belts are intended as a safety precaution, used to shock defendants should they get violent or try to escape. But as the Washington Post reports, that’s…
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Former Texas Prosecutor Withheld Email That Could Have Prevented Innocent Man From Landing on Death Row: Report
In an announcement late Friday, Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg revealed that a former prosecutor withheld a key email that could have prevented Alfred Dewayne Brown from receiving the death penalty. As the Houston Chronicle reports, the email helped establish “a clear alibi” for Brown, who was convicted in a high-profile murder case…
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Texas Judge Denied Bail for Over 10 Years to ‘Tainted’ Defendants; Blames BLM
The Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is calling for an investigation of Houston’s longest-serving felony-court judge, claiming that his no-bond policies and recent remarks on black men and Black Lives Matter display “flagrant racism.” In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Texas District Judge Michael McSpadden said that, as policy, he denied…
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Texas Woman, Who Was Possibly Living at Fitness Center, Found Nearly Drowned in Pool
A Texas woman is on life support after she was found floating in the swimming pool of a Grapevine, Texas, Life Time Fitness studio, where friends say she may have been living for more than two weeks. According to CBS DFW, Jamila Hashim is being treated at the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center after…
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Pre-K Teacher Leigh Bishop Matching Her Student’s Hairstyle Has Me All Up in My Dad Feels
The story of Leigh Bishop (recent #WCW at The Glow Up), the pre-K teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Sugar Land, Texas, who told her student August that she loved her hairstyle and then showed up the next day wearing it, actually brought a tear to my eye. But just one. OK, both. Maybe I…
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Texas Couple Goes to Visit Vacation Home, Only to Discover the Whole House Has Been Stolen
How do you steal a whole house, fam? Logically, I know the answer, but still, what kind of planning and balls does it take to move a house off of someone’s property? A Houston couple is looking for answers—and hoping to have their vacation home returned to them—after someone stole the structure right off their…
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Texas Woman Charged With Yelling Racist Slurs at Interracial Couple, Smashing Their Car Windows
A Texas woman was indicted Thursday afternoon in a Guadalupe County, Texas, court on charges of felony mischief after authorities say she smashed the car windows of an interracial couple viewing a house in the neighborhood in which she lives. In the early hours of Dec. 10, 2017, Jason and Victoria Chapa were leaving a…
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Texas Man Fined Less Than $600 for Assaulting 8-Year-Old Black Child
A Fort Worth, Texas, man has been found guilty of misdemeanor assault by contact for attacking his neighbor’s 8-year-old son in 2016, whom he had accused of littering in his yard. Itamar Vardi was ordered to pay a $569 fine and sentenced to community service and six months of deferred adjudication. If Vardi fulfills his…
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Dear White People Cast, Crew Create Jordan Edwards Scholarship Fund
The cast and crew of the Netflix series Dear White People are honoring the life and legacy of Jordan Edwards with a scholarship fund created in partnership with Jordan’s family and the Black Alumni Association. The Jordan J. Edwards Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund was conceptualized “to promote the education of deserving undergraduate students who enroll…