Clarice Silber
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Austin, TX, United States
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Texas officials testify to lawmakers about mass violence
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State officials and experts testified Wednesday before a Texas legislative committee evaluating issues related to mass violence in the wake of two August shootings that left nearly 30 people dead in the state. The Senate Select Committee on Mass Violence Prevention and Community Safety met in Texas' capital of Austin to discuss whether digital media and violent video games… → Read More
Texas GOP leaders enter custody battle over child's gender
DALLAS (AP) - Top Republican leaders in Texas this week weighed in on two parents' custody battle over their 7-year-old child's gender identity after the case was shared widely on social media and conservative news sites. → Read More
Texas GOP speaker drops re-election bid after secret tape
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' embattled GOP House speaker announced Tuesday that he won't seek re-election after a growing number of Republicans called for his resignation following the release of a secretly recorded conversation in which he sought help to oust members of his own caucus in 2020 and used foul language to disparage Democrats. The decision by Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen comes… → Read More
Texas GOP speaker drops re-election bid after secret tape
Texas' embattled GOP House speaker announced Tuesday that he won't seek re-election after a growing number of Republicans called for his resignation following the release of a secretly recorded conversation in which he sought help to oust members of his own caucus in 2020 and used foul language → Read More
Unlikely alliance fighting pipeline in Texas Hill Country
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) - One of the longest proposed new natural gas pipelines in the U.S. is set to run through Heath Frantzen's property in the Texas Hill Country, where more than 600 white-tailed and trophy axis deer graze on a hunting ranch his family has owned for three generations. Fearing financial ruin and conservation risks, Frantzen and dozens of other landowners in central Texas… → Read More
Unlikely alliance fighting pipeline in Texas Hill Country
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) - One of the longest proposed new natural gas pipelines in the U.S. is set to run through Heath Frantzen's property in the Texas Hill Country, where more than 600 white-tailed and trophy axis deer graze on a hunting ranch his family has owned for three generations. → Read More
Bridgeport police searching for woman being charged in connection with husband’s shooting death
Bridgeport police are searching for a woman wanted in connection with the death of her husband. → Read More
Austin to be first US city to fund abortion support services
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion advocates said Thursday that Texas' capital of Austin has become the first city in the nation to provide funding toward logistical services for abortion access. The move comes as several states passed sweeping abortion bans this year, and after Planned Parenthood pulled out of a federal family planning program in opposition to a new Trump administration rule… → Read More
Austin to be first US city to fund abortion support services
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion advocates said Thursday that Texas’ capital of Austin has become the first city in the nation to provide funding toward logistical services for abortion access. … → Read More
Austin to be first US city to fund abortion support services
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion advocates said Thursday that Texas’ capital of Austin has become the first city in the nation to provide funding toward logistical services for abortion access. The move comes as several states passed sweeping abortion bans this year, and after Planned Parenthood pulled out of a federal family planning program in […] → Read More
Texas mass violence committee members receive death threats
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Top leaders of a new Texas House committee that is addressing issues related to gun violence in the wake of two local mass shootings say some of its Republican members have received death threats. The threats mark the latest confrontation Republican lawmakers have faced by gun rights supporters in Texas, which already has some of the most permissive gun laws in the U. S.… → Read More
Texas mass violence committee members receive death threats
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Top leaders of a new Texas House committee that is addressing issues related to gun violence in the wake of two local mass shootings say some of its Republican members have received death threats. The threats mark the latest confrontation Republican lawmakers have faced by gun rights supporters in Texas, which already has some of the most permissive gun laws in the U.S.… → Read More
Texas governor resists calls for quick votes after shooting
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is dismissing calls to hold an emergency legislative session on guns following a violent August that began and ended with mass shootings. The Texas Legislature doesn't meet again until 2021, which Democrats said Wednesday is too long to wait for new safeguards in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa that killed 29 people. Only the governor… → Read More
Texas teams with Bumble to crack down on 'cyber flashing'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As states push to criminalize the sharing of intimate photos to get revenge on former sex partners, Texas is teaming with Bumble to crack down on people who send unsolicited nude images on dating apps and elsewhere in cyberspace. The new Texas law banning so-called cyber flashing comes after state Rep. Morgan Meyer collaborated with the Austin-based social and dating… → Read More
Texas governor meets with tech officials about quelling hate
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is meeting in Austin with officials from Google, Twitter and Facebook to discuss ways of combatting extremism in light of the recent mass shooting in El Paso that reportedly targeted Mexicans. Officials from the FBI and state lawmakers are also taking part in Thursday's roundtable discussion, which the Republican governor pitched as the first in a… → Read More
Texas governor meets with tech officials about quelling hate
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday met in Austin with officials from some of the world's biggest tech giants to discuss ways of combatting → Read More
3D printer gun plans seller pleads guilty to sex with minor
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The founder of a Texas company that sells plans for making untraceable 3D printed guns pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with an underage girl. Travis County Assistant District Attorney Joe Frederick said Cody Wilson pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child under a plea deal with prosecutors. Wilson initially faced sexual assault charges. Frederick said… → Read More
3D printer gun plans seller pleads guilty to sex with minor
The founder of a Texas company that sells plans for making untraceable 3D printed guns pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with an underage girl. Travis County Assistant District Attorney Joe Frederick said Cody Wilson pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child under a plea deal with prosecutors → Read More
Texas leaders urge prosecutors to keep enforcing pot laws
Texas Republican leaders on Thursday urged state district and county attorneys to continue enforcing marijuana laws, a move that follows several local prosecutors' decision to drop pot possession cases amid confusion surrounding a new law legalizing hemp. The letter sent by Gov. Greg Abbott together with Lt. Gov. → Read More
Castro, O'Rourke both hit Texas capital after debate dustup
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - One Texan became a political sensation waging a longshot Senate campaign, then stormed into the presidential race with even more momentum, climbing in the polls, running up monster fundraising and dominating the national conversation. The other announced his 2020 bid earlier and to far less fanfare, then struggled for months to even stay relevant. → Read More