Death Watch: Two More Executions Will Make Three in Five Weeks

Executions accelerate in 2015

"...the tally to three in the first five weeks of the year. That would have been four, but Garcia..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Feds Escalate Legal Intervention Over SB 8

Biden's DOJ sues, files emergency motion to block Texas abortion ban

"...The U.S. Department of Justice has escalated its legal challenge to..."

Sept. 17, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Death Watch: Cruel & Unusual Confinement

Convicted hit man faces third date with death

"...last 22 years on death row. After two stays of execution, he is once again scheduled to die by..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...It was 3am on Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998, when Melvin Jones called the police...."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Attempts to Get Nader on Ballots Continue

"...your amusement, I'm sure, attempts continue to keep Nader off of U.S. ballots. The Oct. 6 appeals decision denies..."

Oct. 13, 2004 Postmarks

Naked City

"...No wayyyy! However, early voting for the two ACC run-offs runs May 19-28, with the election scheduled for June..."

May 17, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Rosa Jimenez Is Free: "Exciting, Overwhelming, and I Feel So Blessed"

New DA Garza commits to "aggressively pursue innocence"

"...that attorneys, advocates, and the Travis County District Attorney’s Office believe she did not commit...."

Jan. 28, 2021 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Relief Denied, Inmate to Be Executed

Escamilla to be 12th Texan executed this year

"...the gurney on Wed., Oct. 14. He was convicted of capital murder in the Nov. 25, 2001, shooting death..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: San Antonio Gun Brother

Appeals denied for Paredes and two others

"...determine that he assisted in or enforced the deaths of two of three individuals who lost their lives in..."

Oct. 24, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

DSHS Rules: The Right Not to Have an Abortion

Agency upholds ambulatory surgical center standard

"...On Dec. 27, the Texas Department of State Health Services adopted new regulations that will require..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Judges Seek Alternatives to Incarceration

A review of federal sentencing guidelines reveals room for improvement

"...At a meeting of the U.S. Sentencing Commission last week, Judge William K...."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Mitigation Appeal Denied, Abel Ochoa Set to Die

He'll become the first person executed in Texas in 2020

"...they left church with their two daughters in August of 2002, Abel Ochoa asked his wife, Cecilia, for $10...."

Jan. 31, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines

"...resumes regular meetings today (Aug. 6) with a few high-profile matters on the agenda: Council members hope to approve..."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Feature

In Scathing Ruling, Federal Judge Blocks (For Now) Texas Abortion Ban

A temporary injunction for an "offensive deprivation"

"...the state's near-total abortion ban, slamming it as an “offensive deprivation” of Texans' constitutional rights...."

Oct. 7, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

The American Dream Deferred: SCOTUS Stalemates on Immigrant Rights

United States v. Texas

"...forced to continue to live in fear following last Thursday's disappointing U.S. Supreme Court deadlock on a Texas-based immigration..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Death Watch: Crutsinger Seeks Last-Ditch SCOTUS Appeal

Following the Aug. 21 execution of Larry Swearingen, Crutsinger could be the fifth Texan killed this year

"...By all prior accounts, Billy Crutsinger confessed to the double homicide of Pearl Magouirk and..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Headlines

"...forecast and staff budget preview, and this week's beginning of the departmental briefings. Interim City Manager Elaine Hart has..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature

Block the Vote

If you can't beat 'em, disenfranchise 'em

"...Crow has spent a lifetime experiencing the events most of us just read about in the paper. She was..."

April 22, 2016 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Holiday Greetings From the INS: Hit the Road

Austin's Jamal family faces forced deportation to an unknown destination

"...2002, six separate letters arrived for the six members of the Jamal family -- and they did not contain..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Travis County Settles With Sexual Assault Survivors

$580,000 settlement reached in three-year legal battle over handling of sexual assault cases

"...and state lawsuits brought against the county and city of Austin by sexual assault survivors. The agreement, which includes..."

June 25, 2021 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week "It is incredible that the District Attorney's..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"Let me be perfectly clear: I oppose HJR..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

New HB 2 Suit Challenges Regulations That Could Shutter All But Six Texas Clinics

Suit seeks to block enforcement of two provisions

"...Just less than a week after an appeals court upheld two provisions of the controversial House Bill..."

April 3, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Abortion Services Restored at South Austin Planned Parenthood

Doctor now has admitting privileges, as required by HB2

"...2 world is decidedly bleak for women in need of legal abortion care, but today there's a bit of..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

UPDATED: Death Watch: Most Notorious

Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells scheduled for execution

"...federal district judge in Houston has stayed the execution of serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells and that of another..."

April 2, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Supreme Entanglements

Homeless Austin lawyer Thomas Van Orden takes the state to court over the Ten Commandments

"...from the state Capitol lawn. But is that because of who he is, and how he's bringing his case?..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas’ Latest Porn Restriction Law Goes to SCOTUS

The 2023 law requires ID to watch porn

"...films or any media that they don’t like, there’s often quick and universal backlash. To avoid controversy, the latest..."

Feb. 14, 2025 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Voting by Mail in Texas: Where Things Stand

The law, and the lawsuits

"...the polling place on election day with­out a likelihood of needing personal assistance or of injuring the voter's health...."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Death Watch: Shaken Science

Appeal rests on new research into Shaken Baby Syndrome

"...sentenced to death in 2003 for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis, was a "drug abusing..."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Headlines

"...voting for the May 7 Proposition 1 election ended Tuesday with a remarkably high turnout, and Uber and Lyft's..."

May 6, 2016 News Feature

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