A North Texas woman will serve 40 days in jail after pleading guilty to charges related to a racially charged tirade she directed at a group of Indian American women two years ago. A now-viral video of the incident showed Esmeralda Upton of Plano mocking the group for their accents, referring to them as “curry-ass bitches” and hurling punches. […]
Chalk up a loss for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s anti-cannabis crusade. A Travis County district court judge last week dismissed a suit the Republican AG filed to strike down voter-approved decriminalization ordinances adopted in five Texas cities, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Judge Jan Soifer last Wednesday ruled there was no legal justification to try the […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. EL PASO — An El Paso judge heard arguments Monday from a lawyer in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office who claims that a migrant shelter is violating state law by providing shelter […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. CIUDAD JUÁREZ — National Guard members on the Texas-Mexico border have added pepper ball guns to their arsenal, firing at migrants who are gathering on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande or […]
A federal court sentenced a San Antonio woman to 14 years in prison on charges that she misrepresented herself as a legal advocate to help to smuggle immigrants into the country, according to federal authorities. People hoping to cross the border provided Kimberly Cruz, 35, with packets of information, which she used when misrepresenting herself […]
A San Antonio man who’s alleged physical altercation with a woman in a north-of-downtown park went viral in a video clip last summer is now going to trial on a felony charge, court records show. The trial of Noah Ochoa, 25, will get underway June 24 in Bexar County’s 290th District Court. He faces charges […]
Arthur Penn’s still-visceral and lacerating tale of doomed love and murder, Bonnie and Clyde, literally changed the movies by breaking the Hayes Code — the repressive Catholic movie censorship system that once prohibited American studio films from showing sex, graphic violence and other “immoral content.” Now, Texas Public Radio is screening Bonnie and Clyde on Tuesday, […]
Plenty of people were present at Alamo Plaza on Saturday evening. All clothed and none riding bicycles. Which probably was a big disappointment for anyone who’d read online for San Antonio’s iteration of the World Naked Bike Ride, a series of nationwide events where bare-assed cyclists protest oil dependency and body shaming.
After months of uncertainty, customers who made deposits on San Antonio-based electric-vehicle startup DeLorean Motors ReImagined’s Alpha5 model have some good news. Maybe. In an email to some customers last week, DeLorean officials said they had contracted Toronto-based creative agency Otherlife to develop the company’s long awaited NFT-exchange.
Even more Texas women support the right to legally access abortion since the state ban on the procedure went into effect in 2022, according to a new study from Resound Research for Reproductive Health. The study, which incorporates data from two statewide surveys in 2019 and 2023, shows an significant increase in support for abortion […]