Crime

Unborn Child And Constitutional Rights

The state of Texas is questioning the legal rights of an “unborn child” in arguing against a lawsuit brought by a state prison guard who says she had a stillborn baby because of working conditions. DALLAS — The state of…

Texas Questions Rights Of Fetus In Prison Guard Lawsuit

In defending themselves against a lawsuit, Texas officials have argued that an “unborn child” may not have rights under the US constitution, putting them in tension with arguments made by the state’s attorney’s general’s office as well as Republican lawmakers…

Operation Lone Star Criticised And Looked Down Upon

A 3-year-old migrant girl riding a bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas to Chicago died Thursday in Southern Illinois, authorities said. The girl died at a hospital in Marion County, an official for the Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed…

Operation Lone Star: 3 Year Old Dies Mercilessly

A child sleeps on the shoulder of a woman as they prepare to board a bus to San Antonio moments after a group of migrants, many from Haiti, were released from custody upon crossing the Texas-Mexico border. A 3-year-old child…

A 3 Year Old Migrant Girl Dies Inside The Bus From Texas To Chicago

A three-year-old girl has died while travelling from Texas to Chicago. US health officials are investigating the death of a three-year-old Venezuelan girl travelling with her parents on a bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas to Chicago. Thousands of migrants…

15 Year Old Hit And Killed Near Frisco School

Landon Bourque was stuck by a vehicle and killed less than a mile away from his school in Frisco. Wednesday was the district’s first day of school. FRISCO, Texas – A 15-year-old was struck by a vehicle and killed in…

Texas Sheriff Says 3 Hog Hunters From Florida Dies In An Underground Tank

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff said Thursday that three hog hunters from Florida died in an underground tank filled with sewer gas after one of them apparently tried rescuing their dog after it fell into the hole, followed…

Extreme Heat Escalates Challenges For Border Patrol

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The extreme heat in the borderland has made the job of border patrol agents more difficult and the journey of migrants crossing through the desert even deadlier. The El Paso border sector has seen an…

Texas A&M Reaches $1 Milliob Settlement With Black Journalism Professor

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor whose hiring was sabotaged by backlash over her past work promoting diversity. The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy…

Places Where Daily Heatwave Records Have Fallen

An unrelenting series of summer heat waves has wreaked havoc on the South and Southwest this summer, breaking daily temperature records throughout the South, including seven in a row in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as “dangerously” hot conditions threatening to topple…