Thanks to hundreds of DNA exonerations, experts now know false confessions are common. That wasn’t the case in the nineties in Texas.
The Texas House has voted to impeach the attorney general. After nearly eight years under indictment—during which he won two elections—why now?
Depositions in a recent lawsuit reveal that state rep Tom Craddick, his wife and son, and his daughter, Christi, who leads Texas’s oil and gas regulating agency, profit from industry deals not available to just anyone.
What Poncho Nevarez’s cocaine problem tells us about corruption and impunity at the Texas Capitol.
Jack Stick’s resignation shows that even in Texas, some things count as corruption
After former El Paso ISD superintendent Lorenzo Garcia pled guilt to conspiracy charges, the newspaper called for five of the seven current school board members to step down.
Another South Dallas politician is under investigation for corruption. Why can’t the city seem to change its script?
An FBI investigation is only the latest of El Paso’s problems.
In The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos, the best-selling author and Southern Methodist University professor of economics expounds on corruption and the keys to global prosperity.Your new book identifies a laundry list of global economic problems. Can you single out the most worrisome?
How Conrado Cantu, the sheriff of Cameron County, lived down to people’s expectations of South Texas law enforcement.
Ten years. More than three hundred women murdered. What is going on in Juárez? And why aren't the Mexican authorities doing something about it?
Can Al Lipscomb survive both the ballot box and the jury box?
Even by South Texas standards, the undoing of Starr County sheriff Eugenio Falcón, Jr., was one for the books.
IT IS SO REFRESHING to know that lawmen who are hardworking and corruption-free still exist [“The Last Posse,” March 1998]. These men set an example in their profession. They seem so down to earth and determined. These men are truly role models.IRENE REYESSan Benito LOOKING AT THE COVER PHOTO, I
What does McAllen’s Guillermo González Calderoni know about Mexican political corruption—and when will he start talking?
Once upon a time, Galveston was an isolated island with few big-city problems. Recent flaps over civic corruption, press bias, and race suggest those days are over.
Are Texas cops as bad as Mark Huhrman? Ples: Why your cara rental rates are being driven up.
In the town George Parr once dominated, a nineteen-year-old mother was gang-raped by her neighbors. In the aftermath of the crime, the old horrors of San Diego have surfaced anew.
Houston is famous for medical cures. But when British rock star Ronnie Lane came to town with a crippling disease and $1 million for research, all he got was crippling legal problems.
San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.
On the surface, Mexico’s presidential election looks a lot like ours—rallies, placards, speeches—but the outcome there is never in doubt.
Houston police said they shot Randy Webster because he pointed a gun at them. Randy’s father set out to prove they were lying.
Those who enforce our narcotics laws often use the stuff themselves.
