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2 Feb 2016, 12:25 pm by Tom Kosakowski
Multiple women have come forward claiming that the private Baptist university in Waco, Texas failed to respond appropriately to complaints of rape by a football player. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 1:23 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Alex McQuade
The Pacific Patriots Network announced that its members would establish a safety perimeter around the office in order to prevent a “Waco-style situation” from occurring. [read post]
9 Jan 2016, 2:12 pm by Tom Smith
The arrival of the "3% of Idaho" was the latest development in the situation outside Burns, where an armed occupation of the refuge by an Ammon Bundy-led militant group entered its seventh day. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 1:12 pm by Tom Smith
Greg Vecchi, former chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, said the agency is almost certainly preparing a worst-case scenario to take the occupied wildlife refuge headquarters by force, and that – following the procedures he was familiar with – had likely constructed a set of buildings that resemble the ones in Oregon and have practiced for a coordinated tactical assault. [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 8:09 am by Walter Olson
In the ordinary calculations of humanity, events like Waco and Ruby Ridge and the Philadelphia MOVE bombing represent a grotesque failure. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 9:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Our friends Diana Claitor and Rebecca Larsen of the Texas Jail Project have a fine little column in the Waco Tribune Herald today titled "McLennan County jail increasingly mired in abuse. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 5:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Beyond that, it's hard to see how the Waco biker shooting didn't make the cut: Nine people were killed, four of them by police snipers, after which 177 people were jailed for trumped up conspiracy charges on $1 million bail with virtually no evidence presented to the court to justify it. [read post]
19 Dec 2015, 7:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Even in a large-scale episode like the Waco biker shootout in May, one would think authorities ought to be able to count the number of dead. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 12:09 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
")Houston Chronicle: Four of the nine dead from the Waco biker shootout were killed by police snipers with long guns. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 6:48 pm
"Waco federal judge reprimanded for sexual misconduct, stripped of new cases for a year": The Waco Tribune-Herald has this news update. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 6:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are few items which haven't made it into individual posts but which merit Grits readers' attention:How overcharging and pretrial detention coerce plea deals: In Waco, a man spent 704 days in the county jail before pleading to a one-year misdemeanor sentence. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 10:32 am by Old Fox
Nothing about General Gage... about Paul Revere... about Patriot's Day, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, gun-free zones. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 8:56 am by Laura Goldstein
Map of the Accident The post Debra Richter Injured in Waco, TX Crossing Guard Accident appeared first on Injury Accident News and Opinions. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 8:08 am by Marchita Camacho
Map of the Accident The post 18 Injured in Waco, TX Semi-Truck Accident appeared first on Injury Accident News and Opinions. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 5:07 am by Amy Howe
An op-ed in the Waco Tribune urges the Court not to delay a ruling on the Obama administration’s immigration policy, arguing that justice “delayed is justice denied — and the Supreme Court must be above such disgraceful shenanigans. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 4:18 pm by Andrew Babb
Waco, TX — This past Monday afternoon, traffic in the Waco area of I-35 was backed up as there were 3 major crashes that injured a total of 18 people. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 4:49 pm by Andrew Babb
They were identified as Jensen Claus, 47, of Waco and Gary Hanneman, 27, of Bryan. [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 4:01 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
See here, here, and here.A quick roundup of some of the good work from Grits new contributing writers: Sandra Guerra Thompson had a couple of blog posts recently at Brandon Garrett's Forensics Forum and was quoted in this story in the Atlantic about the Waco biker shootout. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For example, just recently I've noticed these headlines:Inmate dies in West Texas jailInmate dies in Central Texas jail, Texas Rangers investigatingMan dies days after hanging self in Travis County jailAnd then there's this case in Waco where three jailers at the privately run facility have been charged with evidence tampering after they changed records to make it appear they'd conducted suicide checks which had never been performed. [read post]