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Belton ISD Identifies Another Teacher Arrested for Sex Crime Against Student
Tarver Elementary School’s Estevan Banda is the second Belton ISD teacher charged in one week for sexual misconduct.
Austin Elementary Teacher Jailed for Possessing ‘Large Quantity’ of Child Sex Abuse Material
Carl Innmon taught sign language at Baranoff Elementary School in Austin ISD.
Harris County Employees Working From Home Found Living in Austin and Dallas
More than 2,000 Harris County employees work from home, while federal, state, and Houston city governments return to the office.
Fort Worth Teacher Arrested for Online Solicitation of a Minor
Christopher Rhodes was placed on leave from Young Men’s Leadership Academy during the investigation.
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Voter Fraud Case Reveals Deceased Texans Still Voting
Dead men don’t vote, but someone has been voting in South Texas in the name of a deceased voter for years – and it took a federal lawsuit over dirty voter rolls for local election officials to discover the problem. Recent reviews of Starr County’s voter rolls revealed...
Election Season Continues for Midland County
For Midland County, election season isn’t over. Of the four local contested races in the Tall City, one failed to produce a single-candidate winner: Midland County Judge. The three-way race resulted in James Beauchamp receiving 40 percent of the vote, Terry Johnson...
Texas AG Prosecuting Voter Fraud in Nueces County
Texas is finally starting to crack down on voter fraud. The state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that his office is prosecuting three Robstown residents on nine counts of voter fraud committed in Nueces County during the 2016 elections. A grand jury...
Hall Defeats Burkett and Austin Establishment
Despite being challenged by establishment State Rep. Cindy Burkett (R–Mesquite) in the Republican primary, State Sen. Bob Hall (R–Edgewood) won Tuesday night’s election in a victory for conservatives in Senate District 2. Entering the legislature after defeating...
RPT Chairman James Dickey Announces Bid for Re-Election
Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey announced today he would be seeking re-election at the party’s convention in June. In an email sent out to his supporters this morning, Dickey highlighted his success in strengthening the party’s infrastructure statewide...
By Narrow Margin, Seliger Secures Another Term
“Every vote counts” can often sound like a cliché, but the nail-biting, three-way race for West Texas’s Senate District 31 proved otherwise. With 80,636 total votes cast in the Republican primary race, about 340 votes made the difference between a single-candidate...
Grassroots Conservative Wave Sweeps Montgomery County
The decades long rule of Montgomery County’s “good old boys” club came crashing down in the March 6 primary, with voters sending a clear message that they are fed up with the county’s crony politics. State Rep. Mark Keough (R-The Woodlands) handily...
Ryan Beats Villalba in GOP Primary
Republican primary voters in Dallas have booted their abrasive, liberal-voting State Rep. Jason Villalba in favor of conservative businesswoman Lisa Luby Ryan. Ryan won Tuesday’s GOP primary in Texas House District 114 with 53 percent of the vote, defeating insider...
Fallon Defeats Estes in Senate Race
After a months-long campaign, State Rep. Pat Fallon (Prosper) defeated longtime incumbent State Sen. Craig Estes (Wichita Falls) in the Republican primary to represent Senate District 30. A long-time obstacle to conservative reforms in the Senate, Estes earned a...