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A Texas Judge Is Charged With Smuggling Guns Across the Mexico Border
Timothy Wright III faces nine charges that could mean up to 70 years in prison.
What Happens When You Build a Town Around a Prison?
A tour of Huntsville, Texas, where penitentiaries serve as job creators, tourist attractions and the centre of the community.
Cry-Baby of the Week: A Cop Was Ordered to Get Counseling After Posing for a Photo with Snoop Dogg
Also this week: A gas station attendant was fired for cleaning a woman's mirror with a plastic toy of a peeing child.
Dissecting Decades-Old Testimony in a Satanic Child Abuse Case
'Satanic abuse' cases in the 80s and 90s centered on sensational tales of animal sacrifices, murders of babies and violent orgies that children were sworn to keep secret by powerful cabals of daycare workers.
'Western' Shines a Light on America's Complex Relationship with Mexico
In their latest documentary, Bill and Ross Turner examine Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, two sister towns located on either side of the Rio Grande.
Texas Is About to Let College Students Carry Guns on Campus
Because letting coeds loose on college campuses with hidden firearms is the obvious way to stop assault.
The Revolutionary Gun Clubs Patrolling the Black Neighborhoods of Dallas
"The complete agenda involves going into our communities and educating our people on federal, state, and local gun laws," Darren X, the national field marshal of the New Black Panther Party, said. "We want to stop fratricide, genocide—all the 'cides."
Boobs, Skulls and Mickey Mouse: The Naive Art of Hardened Mexican Prisoners
Paños basically show that even the most hardened criminals make their mother a hand-drawn card on Mother's day.
Is Texas About to Abandon its Juvenile Justice System?
A new study is expected to result in further cutbacks to the state's juvenile detention facilities, and could even spur lawmakers to abandon their reliance on the system entirely.
Dead Migrants Are Vanishing at the Texas Border
Bureaucratic obstacles are making it next to impossible for families to find their lost loved ones, or even learn where they died.
Shoes, Books, Bullets and Backpacks – Every Found Object On the Mexican Border Represents a Tragedy
Photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo are turning human trash found on the US-Mexico border into instruments, giving a new identity to fragments of lost lives.
Cry-Baby of the Week: Some Guys Allegedly Shot a Woman Because They Lost at Beer Pong
Also this week: A Muslim woman was ejected from the opera because she refused to remove her veil.