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Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee announced Tuesday that his office has launched a civil investigation into what caused the deadly power outages that swept over Texas last week. Tuesday also saw the first wave of resignations from the board of ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas), the state’s power...
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In his biennial State of the State address this week, Gov. Greg Abbott argued that he’s a tried-and-true conservative leader who Texans can trust to keep their state “the freedom capital of America.” He tried to make the case that the coronavirus pandemic’s worst days are behind us, and threw...
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Just shy of two years after 2019’s fatal Harding Street raid, the families of the married couple killed by Houston Police Department officers during the incident sued the City of Houston and multiple Houston cops for violating their relatives’ constitutional civil rights. Lawyers for the families of Rhogena Nicholas and...
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One day after Houston police officer Felipe Gallegos was charged with committing murder in 2019’s botched Harding Street drug raid, his defense attorney Rusty Hardin accused Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg of pursuing the case for political purposes. “No question about it: They indicted a hero,” Hardin said of...
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As the two year anniversary of 2019’s fatal Harding Street raid approaches, another Houston cop has been charged with murder for his role in the botched drug bust. Five other Houston police officers from HPD’s narcotics division that carried out the raid were also indicted Monday in an alleged overtime...
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In one of his final acts as leader of the free world, Donald Trump announced a slew of last-minute pardons late Tuesday night. Several went to Trump’s political pals, like his former campaign adviser and right-wing bomb thrower Steve Bannon and GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy. A couple even went to...
