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7 Jun 2010, 7:05 pm by Dr. Shezad Malik
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/06/07/2245581/explosion-in-johnson-county-startles.html#my-headlines-default#ixzz0qDv1v6Eb The explosion took place in a transmission pipeline owned by Enterprise Products Partners of Johnson County. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 11:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Kendall Taggart and Alex Campbell at Buzzfeed have done a great job over the last year or so covering Texas cities' and counties' use of Class C misdemeanor offenses as revenue generators that result in de facto debtors prisons when municipal and county jails are used to leverage payment from defendants of limited means.New El Paso litigation Yesterday they reported on new litigation filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project in El Paso. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 12:01 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
More than 40 percent of those — 227 — were with the Houston Police Department, which Ogg said is responsible for about 80 percent of the cases filed.El Paso cop gets probation for on-duty rapeA former police officer in El Paso was sentenced to a 10-year probated sentence after sexually assaulting a domesting violence victim he met on the job. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 1:31 am
With Harris County added to the list of ongoing federal corruption investigations in Dallas and El Paso, not to mention the Laredo police chief indicted for bribery and the Bexar Sheriff having resigned last year over alleged bribe taking, it seems like we're witnessing a rash of increasingly serioius corruption in Texas - often regarding government's criminal justice functions - that's becoming increasingly hard to ignore.I generally hesitate to attribute… [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 3:37 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
According to Carswell, Texas counties are spending an average of $62.79 per person to incarcerate local jail inmates, with jails averaging 12% of county budgets.Perhaps the most eye-popping item was a chart on page 1 listing cost per day for a number of counties ranging from $40.10 (Chambers) to $92.50 (El Paso). [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 7:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Enacted in only seven states during a flurry around the turn of the century, two have already repealed similar laws, reported Schladen.Besides the preponderance of El Paso zip codes, Dallas County stands out from the pack. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 7:32 am
The first group of counties (Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, Collin, Denton, El Paso, Hidalgo and Fort Bend), the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the 14 Courts of Appeal become mandatory January 1, 2014. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 6:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
El Paso residents are less than half as likely to be locked up in the local jail (2.09 per 1,000) than in Tyler. [read post]
10 Aug 2019, 3:41 am by SHG
It was only days after the slaughter in an El Paso Walmart. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
El Paso, Texas is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas, Texas. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 7:46 am
El Paso, for example, reduced the time defendants wait in jail pretrial by 18 days by introducing a direct filing system. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 3:27 pm
However, there are plans to introduce another bill that bans texting, and several cities have already done so, including Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 1:11 pm by Teri Rodriguez
The program does not include Bexar, Dallas, El Paso, Harris, Jefferson, Nueces, Tarrant, and Travis counties, which all are covered by local referral programs. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 7:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Meanwhile, the Texas Border Coalition, representing cities and counties from El Paso to South Padre Island, is making the case that border security should be left to the feds. [read post]
7 May 2010, 6:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's another foolish, wasteful, big-brotherish idea brought to you by federal lawmakers and heartily, regrettably endorsed by the El Paso Times in a May 5 editorial uruging the feds to:Fast-track the paperwork and get drones up and scanning the Texas-Mexico border. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The 8th Court of Appeals out of El Paso now has the longest delays.Batson not just an issue in old casesRacial discrimination in jury selection by Dallas prosecutors continued at least until 2002, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court. [read post]
19 Aug 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in El Paso, Texas on March 26, 1930. [read post]