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Another former employee is suing Collin College. He’s alleging retaliation and race- and disability-based discrimination.

Finis Prendergast passed nearly three years in what he calls “the depths of hell.” Some days were spent “literally starv ing on the floor.” At other times, his surroundings became so rancid Prendergast could barely breathe. “The air smells like urine,” he told Vice in February. “I think they counted…

The Aryan Circle, the second largest prison gang in Texas, is known for going to war both behind bars and outside the clink, but the feds racked up victories against two of the neo-Nazi outfit’s members this week. As part of a federal trial in Beaumont, a jury convicted Aryan…

The Texas Department of State Health Services revoked Brad Cox’s paramedic license, saying he creates an imminent danger to the public health and safety.

Of course he does. After all, It’s only been a couple weeks since Rolling Stone reported that Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert was among a gaggle of GOP lawmakers allegedly meeting in secret with the organizers of the Jan. 6 insurrection. (Gohmert has dismissed the allegations as false.) But when you’re Louie…

The state filed an appeal that puts its ban on delta-8 and other THC isomers until hemp companies can file an emergency motion to their temporary injunction against the ban reinstated.

A Russian and Ukrainian national face over 100 years in prison for charges related to ransomware attacks across the country.

The Texas Department of State Health Services essentially banned delta-8 and other THC isomers by adding them to the controlled substances list. After a hearing on Friday, a judge granted a temporary injunction against the ban.

Mark Zuckerberg’s had a busy few weeks. In response to a lawsuit, his company Meta (formerly Facebook) plans to delete facial recognition data, a move Texas officials are fighting. On Oct. 20, the attorney general for the District of Columbia added Zuckerberg as a defendant in a 2018 lawsuit that…

Some of the biggest alleged scores by two former USPS contractors included a $2 million check to Pershing, LLC and a $241,863 check to Sodexo Inc. & Affiliates, a food services company.

Months after undergoing dental surgery at Stonebriar Facial and Oral Surgery in Frisco, Indeera Musa claims X-rays revealed a piece of a drill bit used during the procedural was accidentally left inside her jaw, according to a lawsuit filed this year.

A Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic named Brad Cox kicked a mentally ill man named Kyle Vess repeatedly in 2019. Vess’ family and attorney say Cox should be arrested and charged for injury to a disabled person.

Every night in Texas, about 400 kids have to sleep in makeshift dorms in Texas Department of Family and Protective Services offices. This group of kids without a foster placement are especially vulnerable to overmedication and physical and sexual abuse, according to a recent court monitor’s report ordered by a…

After over two years of fighting charge of assaulting a public servant, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot dismisses case against Kyle Vess.

Delta-8 and other THC isomers have been flying off the shelves at Texas smoke shops and gas stations. Now, the state says it’s all illegal.

Known as “Primazo,” 44-year-old Wilson Wilfredo Luargas-Garcia was extradited to the Eastern District of Texas in April 2018 following a joint operation with American and Guatemalan authorities. The accusations? That he’d helped pump cocaine into Texas and worked closely with an armed guerrilla group in Colombia. More than two years…

Earlier this month, a Denton County juvenile detention officer was arrested after she was accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile.

During her years as a Burnet County criminal magistrate judge, Roxanne Nelson was at the jail every Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. She saw how county jails dealt with people with mental illnesses accused of committing crimes. “When I started in March 2010, if I couldn’t get…

The Texas Department of State Health Services added a statement to its website that some say put questions over delta-8’s legality to rest.

In the end, Bruce Bise and Samuel Mendez bilked some 13,000 investors out of about $24 million before pleading guilty to tax evasion earlier this week. Since 2016, Bise and Mendez billed Bitqyck, a Dallas-based cryptocurrency company, as a way for “those individuals who missed out on bitcoin” to still…

Three-year-old Bakari Williams’ parents are suing the city of Arlington after a brain-eating amoeba he caught at a city park killed him.

Threats. Brutal beatings. Meth deals. Murders. The Texas-based prison gang Aryan Circle, the second largest of its kind in the state, has spent more than three decades building a reputation as one of the most cutthroat white supremacist outfits behind bars. But this week, federal authorities announced another victory against…