“Start with the idea that you’re going to be sued,” Cleta Mitchell said to a hotel conference room filled with Texas lawmakers.
Mitchell, a lawyer and conservative activist, was talking to the legislators as part...
Legal fight over Trump coal plant rule shows just how divided red and blue states are
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Video shows Dallas, Texas police joking as a 32-year-old man dies in their custody
Video shows Dallas, Texas police joking as a 32-year-old man dies in their custody
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Benjamin Mateus
1 August 2019
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News Roundup: New Poll Of Texas Voters Shows Several Democrats Have An Edge Over Donald Tump
The Standard’s news roundup gives you a quick hit of interesting, sometimes irreverent, and breaking news stories from all over the state.
A new poll records Texans’ take on a variety of...
A May price spike shows vulnerability of power market to manipulation — and cost to consumers
The error was inadvertent, an unknowing mistake by an IT worker, and was corrected in three minutes. But within those moments, the price of electricity on Texas’ wholesale market soared from about $40 a megawatt hour to...
Bodycam video shows Harrison County deputy striking handcuffed man upon arrival at jail
Video released by an attorney shows Charles Collins, who uses a wheelchair, being transferred from a patrol car into a chair at the Harrison County Jail Annex on November 22, 2018. As Collins is being moved to the wheelchair, video...
Bodycam video shows Harrison County deputy striking handcuffed man
Video released by an attorney shows Charles Collins, who uses a wheelchair, being transferred from a patrol car into a chair at the Harrison County Jail Annex. Once Collins is in the wheelchair, a man in a Harrison County deputy...