Category: In the News

Austin attorney Perry Minton, who is representing Jordan Hicks, a member of the Texas football team, released a statement this afternoon saying no sexual assault charges would be filed against Hicks. Hicks and fellow junior Case McCoy were sent home a day early from the Alamo Bowl in light of a San Antonio police investigation […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney representing one of the two Texas football players suspended before the Alamo Bowl says a sexual assault allegation against his client is “completely false.” Perry Minton said in a written statement that linebacker Jordan Hicks “vehemently asserts” the conduct under investigation by San Antonio police was “consensual by everyone […]

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 […]

grieving

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. […]