Automatic Web Traffic Generator

Harris County Judges May Face a Reckoning Over Bail On Election Day

Editor’s note: This story was produced in collaboration with The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news outlet. Typically, down-ballot judicial races in Texas’s largest county are sleepy affairs th... read more

Texas Judge Tells Woman Given $3,500 Bond for Misdemeanors She's 'Job Security'

These are cases progressive activist group the Texas Organizing Project gave to the Houston Press to highlight situations where judges ... night, over 500 people arrested for misdemeanors languish in ... read more

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.

Countless YouTube videos had captured his progress over the past year as he made ... he spent two nights in the Harris County Jail, then appeared before a judge, who promptly released him on $5,000 ba... read more

What Do the 2018 Midterm Results Mean for Houston?

After an intense election ... another reckoning, with voters ousting all 23 of the seats on the district bench that were up for grabs, including the 15 Republican misdemeanor judges that are at the he... read more

The state of the races: County campaigns

As they are at the state level, Democrats are shut out of Harris County government for all at large positions. As it was in 2004, a lot of Republican judges will be running ... no hope beyond “some da... read more

What happened in bizarre murder-for-hire plot that led to veterinarian's suicide, her boyfriend in prison

Verikas claimed that during an argument, Jacob grabbed her face with enough force to wound her lip. According to the police report, Jacob admitted to putting his hand over her mouth ... care of both i... read more

Law and the New Order: A Fresh Wave of District Attorneys Is Redefining Justice

There hasn’t been a new death sentence in Harris County for the past 18 months. And there may not be ... attorney level. Over the past decade, there have been scattered examples of prosecutors taking ... read more

A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office

Many are campaigning in the face of obstacles. Two months pregnant and fighting morning sickness, Zwiener canvassed on college campuses for hours at a time with nothing in ... who is running for Harri... read more

Texas teacher impregnated by student, 13, turns self in

Harris County authorities had issued ... This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - Just one week until the Midterm election and a Spokane Vall... read more

The Death Penalty Is Almost Gone — But Some Politicians Aren’t Ready to Say Goodbye Quite Yet

When Florida state attorney Aramis Ayala said she wouldn't seek the death penalty ... a good day, in some small ways, for criminal-justice reformers. New prosecutors were sworn into Hillsborough Count... read more

Radical Dems Rising

Radical in-your-face ... DA in Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston. Ogg promised a “significant culture change,” including greater leniency in marijuana possession cases and making it easier ... read more

Inside alleged murder-for-hire plot that led to Texas veterinarian's suicide and a man behind bars

Meghan claimed that during an argument, Jacob grabbed her face with enough force to wound her lip. According to the police report, Jacob admitted to putting his hand over her mouth ... of both issues? ... read more