The San Antonio Police Department ( SAPD ) is in need of Texas legislator Chip Roy (R-TX-21 ) to express his concerns and inquire about the relationship between the illegal alien population and district-wide public safety issues. The letter, which is addressed to the Chief of Police William McManus, details recent incidents involving shootings involving
by Nick Grube, Honolulu Civil Beat This article was produced for ProPublica’s Regional Investigating Network in partnership with Honolulu Civil Beat. Sign up for Letters to receive stories like this as soon as they are published. A year ago, after a fatal fire displaced thousands of residents of Lahaina, Hawaii’s governor and lieutenant governor invoked
A Travis County district judge has halted the release of A-F ratings for the 2023-2024 school year against the Texas Education Agency ( TEA ) and its Commissioner Mike Morath by issuing a temporary restraining order against them. The order, which prompted a reading on August 26 of this year to decide whether to grant
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ( TPWD ) has updated its fleet of law enforcement aircraft with a new helicopter. The 2023 Airbus H125 aircraft will allow the Texas Game Warden Aviation System to increase their provincial response capacity for natural disasters, search and rescue incidents, air patrols and more. Texas Game Wardens will
by Vernal Coleman A nonprofit news organization that investigates energy crimes is ProPublica. To get our stories in your inbox every year, sign up for Bulletins, a newsletter that highlights wrongdoing in various parts of the country. This year, Republicans in Indiana’s government passed a bill intended as the last blow to a long-running complaint
Through the years, I’ve tested a lot of different boating equipment, and occasionally the best boat modification you make turns out to be something you did n’t even like. Case in point: The Scanstrut Rokk Edge 10. It costs less than$ 150, takes 20 minutes to install, and once you have one on your boat,
Bryan Collier, director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, made the initial admission that heat had led to the death of three state prisoner prisoners. He also expressed a desire for more money to be used to air-condition all state lockups. In a reading involving a lawsuit filed by detainee Bernhardt Tiede II in
Over 70 Republicans wrote to the fair’s governing board asking for the policy change to be rescinded following a recent decision by the board of the Texas State Fair to reverse an existing policy that allowed concealed carry by license-to-carry ( LTC ) holders. From September 27 to October 20, the yearly fair in Dallas,
As part of an ongoing research conducted by the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs, Meta, Google, TikTok, and X have all received formal record request calls. The whistleblower witness at a May commission hearing, which included allegations of election disturbance at the major tech platforms, was the basis for the document requests. × This
143 Since the spring of 2013, I’ve been observing a dark roller directly for hours and weeks. No, I was n’t scuba diving or dropping down a fish-cam – I have a very, very large aquarium. A little legal black drum was caught last year, and I made the decision to put him in the
The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that will increase the national judiciary in response to the growing caseload, which is a point of republican unanimity after the bill was defeated without opposition. The legislation, entitled the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved ( JUDGES ) Act of 2024, adds new district judges to states
by Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio, and Stacy Kranitz, a ProPublica unique. This account describes an attempted murder in a domestic violence case. This content was produced in collaboration with WPLN/Nashville Public Radio for ProPublica’s Regional Reporting Network. Sign up for Letters to find stories like this one as soon as they are published. Jade