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DALLAS (CN) – A Dallas appeals court judge agreed to a minimum six-month suspension by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to get treatment for alcohol abuse after disappearing from work for 13 months. Fifth Court of Appeals Court Justice David Lewis and the commission filed an agreed motion for an order of temporary suspension […]
Tyler, the Creator’s lawyer has denied that the rapper encouraged the audience at his gig at the South By South West (SXSW) festival in Austin to riot. Perry Q. Minton denied the allegations saying that to describe the event as a riot was “an unfortunate and inaccurate description of what occurred”. The Odd Future star […]
UPDATE: TYLER, THE Creator’s manager has weighed in on the incident. Read Christian Clancy’s full statement below. One week after his arrest for allegedly inciting a riot during his South by Southwest performance, Tyler, the Creator has released a statement through his attorney calling the word “riot” an “unfortunate and inaccurate description of what occurred.” 7 Hot Hip-Hop Crews: Odd Future “At […]
Gabrielle Nestande, a former legislative aide in the Texas House of Representatives, faced a public-relations nightmare when standing trial for drunken driving and a fatal hit-and-run in Austin, Texas. The 25-year-old was privileged, wealthy, and a Republican. Blonde and preppy looking, the Baylor University graduate thus became red meat for the trial-watching mob and prosecutors […]
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 […]
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. […]
