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AUSTIN — Prosecutors asked a jury Tuesday to send a message about transparency in government by convicting a South Texas lawmaker they allege sold access to the Legislature. A Travis County jury began deliberating the fate of state Rep. Kino Flores, 52, who is charged with nine counts of tampering with a government record and […]
AUSTIN — Prosecutors asked a jury Tuesday to send a message about transparency in government by convicting a South Texas lawmaker they allege sold access to the Legislature. A Travis County jury began deliberating the fate of state Rep. Kino Flores, 52, of Mission, who is charged with nine counts of tampering with a government […]
About 5 p.m. on a smoking-hot July day, Joyce Barnett called her husband, Bill, at work. She had no words; she could only shriek. She’d just heard from friends of their 22-year-old daughter, Stacy. At Joyce’s request, they’d gone to Stacy’s apartment in Austin to check on her, but they found a crime scene instead. […]
