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Two conservative groups are suing Austin over its nondiscrimination ordinance. LGBTQ advocates say they're not worried.

Read full article: Two conservative groups are suing Austin over its nondiscrimination ordinance. LGBTQ advocates say they're not worried.

The advocates say lawsuits challenging the city's code prohibiting employers from discriminating against an "individual’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability" won't hold up in court.

Attorney Daniel Mehler argued that evidence be tossed out since lab does not do quantitative drug testing

Man’s felony drug case dismissed after attorney challenged Bexar County crime lab’s testing practices

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A San Antonio man facing a lengthy prison sentence was instead able to get his felony drug case dismissed after his attorney called out the testing practices of the Bexar County Criminal Investigation Laboratory.

Maps based on the 2020 census designating districts within Texas for state and congressional offices are the focus of a discrimination case that is being heard in federal court.

Federal trial opens to determine whether Texas discriminated in redrawn redistricting maps

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The trial in El Paso will hear a challenge over the redistricting maps drawn by the Legislature that are based on the 2020 census.

A sign seen on May 12 near Marker 4 east of the Texas-New Mexico state line illegible from the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande warns that the U.S. Department of Defense has taken over the area.

First trial of immigrant accused of trespassing on Texas border military zone ends in acquittal

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The trial of the Peruvian woman was the first test of the Trump administration’s new policy aimed at prosecuting immigrants who crossed the border illegally with military-related charges.

State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, answers questions from state Rep. Rafael Ancha, D-Dallas, regarding a conference committee report which would raise the base pay for Texas judges.

In final act, Texas Legislature boosts judges’ pay and lawmaker pensions

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House and Senate members agreed that judges needed a pay raise. But they spent the final hours of the legislative session debating whether Texas lawmakers should also benefit from the boost.

Publisher of Texas Scorecard Michael Quinn Sullivan speaks during the Texas GOP Convention Thursday, May 23, 2024 in San Antonio.

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear GOP activist’s lawsuit challenging Texas Ethics Commission’s lobbying fine

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Former Empower Texans leader Michael Quinn Sullivan has challenged a $10,000 fine from the Texas Ethics Commission for failure to register as a lobbyist for more than 10 years at nearly every level of the state court system.

A judge dismissed two ex-SAPD officers listed as defendants in the civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Melissa Perez. In 2023, Perez was experiencing a mental health crisis inside her apartment when body camera footage showed she was shot by Alfred Flores (left) and Eleazar Alejandro (right). A third ex-SAPD officer who was seen shooting Perez, Nathaniel Villalobos (not pictured), was previously implicated in the civil lawsuit before a judge dismissed him from the suit.

Judge dismisses 2 ex-SAPD officers from civil lawsuit filed by Melissa Perez’s family, records show

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A U.S. Magistrate Judge dismissed two former San Antonio police officers listed as defendants in the civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Melissa Perez.

A Bexar County judge granted Ashley Pardo partial house arrest, so she can attain employment

Mom accused of helping in son’s planned mass violence at SAISD school has her bond slightly modified

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The mother of an SAISD middle school student who allegedly bought ammunition, magazines and tactical gear for her son had slight modifications made to her bond during a Friday court appearance, her first since she was taken into custody.

State Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, urged the Texas House to vote for bail rules that would set stricter standards for when defendants in the state are eligible to post bail while awaiting trial.

Stricter bail rules win final passage in Texas Legislature, will go to voters in November

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The House passage of the measure asking voters to amend the state Constitution to tighten the state’s bail laws hands a major policy win to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Patrons of the SAXET Gun Show look at handguns at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown on Feb. 26, 2023.

“Anti-Red Flag Act” that would limit when guns can be taken from people advances in Texas House

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Senate Bill 1362 would prevent officials from taking someone’s firearms if they haven’t been charged with a crime or aren’t subject to a protective order under the Texas Family Code.

Six others were formally charged and arrested in an alleged vote-harvesting scheme in Frio County

Cellphones of Frio County commissioners, former Pearsall mayor seized by Texas attorney general‘s office, records show

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Additional search warrants were executed last week in connection with the state attorney general’s office investigation into a possible vote-harvesting scheme in Frio County.

Heart Galleries, portraits of adoptable children, on display at the Child Protective Services office at Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Austin on Nov. 14, 2019.

Long-running lawsuit against Texas’ foster care system appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court

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Lawyers representing foster children asked the high court to reinstate a contempt order against the state, and the judge who issued it.

Activists and members of Austin's LGBTQ community gather on the steps of the Texas Capitol on June 28, 2017, to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a key moment in the birth of the modern LGBT movement in America.

Texas House votes to repeal ban on “homosexual conduct”

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An unlikely group of Republican allies joined Democrats to approve repealing the ban, which has been unenforced since 2003. It is the first time the bill has made it to the House floor since it was first proposed decades ago.

Lawmakers gather during a point of order on May 15, 2025. House Speaker Rep. Dustin Burrows presided over a busy week in the lower chamber as a key deadline came -- and went -- at the end of Thursday.

Juvenile detention, imported shrimp, forever chemicals among hundreds of bills cut off by House deadline

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Some measures that made it through before midnight dealt with jail bonds, an unconstitutional ban on gay sex, and the liability of vaccine manufacturers.

Myrta Romanos’ bond totals remain at $600,000

Bond reduction denied for woman accused in triple murder cover-up of Savannah Soto, Matthew Guerra and unborn child

Read full article: Bond reduction denied for woman accused in triple murder cover-up of Savannah Soto, Matthew Guerra and unborn child

A judge on Thursday denied a request to lower the bond for a woman accused of helping cover up the murders of a young couple and their unborn child — a case that remains without a trial date more than a year later.

Place 2 Council Member Ramiro Trevino and Place 4 Council Member Racheal Garza took the oath of office during Tuesday night’s Pearsall city council meeting.

Pearsall city council members indicted in elections investigation take oath of office for new term

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Two Pearsall city council members facing felony charges were sworn in to serve another term on Tuesday night, nearly two weeks after a grand jury indicted them in an election investigation.