Talk Poll: Do you support the City's efforts to expand the Convention Center?

Texas News

Texas Department of Public Safety
June 29, 2019 - 1:59 pm

Missing El Paso boys found safe in Mexico after AMBER Alert

UPDATE: Officials say the two missing El Paso boys have been safely found in Mexico and are being returned to the United States. No further details were immediately available. ___ EL PASO, Texas (Talk1370.com) -- An AMBER Alert was issued Saturday afternoon for two missing El Paso boys. El Paso...
Read More
Democratic presidential candidate, Secretary Julián Castro, makes a statement to media outside of the Homestead Detention Center on June 28, 2019.(Jennifer King/Miami Herald via AP)
June 28, 2019 - 9:04 pm

Castro, O'Rourke both hit Austin after debate dustup

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — One Texan became a political sensation waging a longshot Senate campaign, then stormed into the presidential race with even more momentum, climbing in the polls, running up monster fundraising and dominating the national conversation. The other announced his 2020 bid earlier...
Read More
Seagoville Police Department via AP
June 27, 2019 - 12:45 pm

Texas police officer charged with murder in Dallas shooting

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas police officer has been arrested on a murder charge after he fatally shot the driver of a truck reported stolen from a Dallas suburb earlier in June. Farmers Branch Officer Michael Dunn turned himself in Wednesday night after a grand jury indicted him for murder in the killing...
Read More
courtesy Immigration and Customs Enforcement
June 25, 2019 - 8:03 am

ICE enforcement surge in Central, South Texas nets 52 arrests

AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- Immigration officials say 52 arrests were made across Central and South Texas during a four-day enforcement action last week. According to an ICE press release, 16 arrests were made in the Austin/Waco area. 35 of those who were arrested had prior criminal histories...
Read More
Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune
June 24, 2019 - 10:43 am

Jonathan Stickland says he won’t run for re-election to the Texas House

BEDFORD, Texas (Texas Tribune) -- State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, a firebrand conservative Republican from Bedford and one of the most vocal members of the Texas House, announced Monday he will not run for reelection in 2020.
Read More
Alex Wong/Getty Images
June 24, 2019 - 7:07 am

Abbott: If homeless allowed to camp in Austin streets, lawmakers will override

AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- Days after Austin's City Council approved changes to the city's "no sit/no lie" and camping ordinances, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is issuing a warning to city leaders. Sunday night, Abbott tweeted, "If Austin— or any other Texas city—permits camping on city streets it will be...
Read More
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
June 21, 2019 - 12:56 pm

Texas to deploy Guard troops to border amid migrant surge

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) -- Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday that the state will deploy 1,000 troops from the Texas National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to aid the federal government with border security efforts.
Read More
June 21, 2019 - 8:28 am

New law adds state penalties for mail, package theft

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) -- United States Postal Service letter carrier Homer Hernandez has delivered mail in the San Antonio area for over 15 years. And in that time, he's seen more items get stolen from households' mailboxes and porches than he can count.
Read More
FILE - In this April 10, 2019, file photo, Regina Wells, foreground right, a forensic laboratories supervisor with the Kentucky State Police, demonstrates new crime-fighting technology in Frankfort, Ky. Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky. Now a state board in Texas has asked a growing government provider of the DNA equipment used in those high-profile projects to halt work amid concerns of potentially jeopardized criminal cases, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner, File)
June 20, 2019 - 8:08 am

Texas says DNA technology jeopardizes cases

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family connections of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now a state board in...
Read More
Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune
June 19, 2019 - 3:10 pm

Criminal case against AG Paxton remains in limbo after appeals court decision

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) -- After mulling the question for nearly six months, the nine Republican judges on Texas’ highest criminal court will not reconsider their 2018 ruling that threatens to imperil the criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Read More

Pages