The Daily Post
November 11, 2017
Women in Law Enforcement Help Build Trust Within a Community
Sally Hernandez, Kim Ogg, and Catrina Shead speak about the importance of working together to protect a city's most vulnerable residents.
Violence
The Daily Post
May 3, 2017
There Have Been Two More Violent Attacks at Texas Schools Since Monday’s Stabbing at UT
On Tuesday, a boy was stabbed at Brewer High School in Fort Worth, and Wednesday two people were killed at North Lake College in Irving in an apparent murder-suicide.
The Daily Post
May 4, 2015
Everything We Know About the Shooting in Garland Last Night
A Garland community center held a contest offering a $10,000 prize for the best drawing of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and it ended with two dead and a third injured.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Louie Gohmert: Arm the Principals and Teachers
On a day that no other U.S. senator was willing to be interviewed on TV about gun rights, Rep. Louie Gohmert joined Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson in calling for more guns in schools.
Border & Immigration
January 21, 2013
Is Cartel Violence Getting Too Close to the Border?
A gunbattle in Piedras Negras, which killed a Mexican police officer, prompted American officials to close two bridges in the city. This comes less than a month after an El Paso woman was hit by a stray bullet shot from Juárez.
Border & Immigration
January 21, 2013
Life in the “Deadliest Place in Mexico”
The Texas Observer's Melissa del Bosque traveled to the Juárez Valley, where the murder rate is 1,600 people killed per 100,000 inhabitants, to report on the violent drug war gripping the region.
News & Politics
April 19, 2012
Cockfight Becomes Gunfight in the Valley
Three dead and eight injured as masked gunmen ambush cockfight at a ranch northeast of Edinburg.
True Crime
June 1, 2003
Ciudad de la Muerte
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?
True Crime
January 1, 1998
A Few Bad Boys
The slashing of a cadet’s throat at the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen is only the latest incident of violence at a venerable institution under not-so-friendly fire.
News & Politics
November 1, 1997
Brute Causes
By now we know about Brazoria County— but is there violence in other Texas prisons and jails?
Texas History
September 30, 1997
Historical Friction
Conflicting accounts of the killing of German immigrants in the Hill Country during the Civil War are creating a certain amount of dis-Comfort.
True Crime
March 1, 1996
The Horse Killers
The shocking and sad story of the East Texas kids who beat a horse to death just for the thrill of it.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1995
Fear and Loading
At the state capitol, where talk of concealed weapons consumes us still, emotion is winning the day.
True Crime
January 1, 1993
Scarred
Not long after she made her trek from Texas to New York, Marla Hanson saw her modeling career end at the hands of a razor-wielding thug. Six years later, the cuts on her face have healed, but the emotional wounds remain.