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The decision revives a lawsuit against a Texas officer who shot a driver after endangering himself by jumping onto a moving car. ============================================================= During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into his car after jumping onto the doorsill as Barnes began to drive away. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the shooting was justified by the threat that the officer, Harris County Constable Roberto Felix Jr., faced when he shot Barnes. Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the...

A Houston resident reportedly chased a furniture mover he had hired to move a box containing a corpse Friday, leading to a road crash that left the resident injured and in police custody, authorities said. The furniture mover told the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) that Steven Eberly, the suspect, hired him to move furniture at his home, according to a statement published Sunday by HCSO Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The furniture mover allegedly “observed a deceased individual in the boxes he was instructed to help move.” He then fled the residence in the Eberly’s truck with the suspect in its...

VIDEOThe lamestream media won't reveal the true MS-13 background of Kilmar Garcia aka "Maryland Man." However, watch this REAL journalist who investigated his background and found out that before he became "Maryland Man" he was in effect Houston Man due to hanging around the gang affiliated Eclipse nightclub in Houston, Texas. Since the Eclipse nightclub besides being a hub for drug distribution also supplied forged IDs for MS-13 members such as Kilmar Garcia whose full name is Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and his MS-13 gang tag was "El Fuego." This journalist also discusses El Fuego's tattoos and demonstrates that MS-13...

ORLANDO, May 24, 2013 – Online social networks can reveal alot. Including information about the relationshps of Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter and Chechen, that was fatally shot at his Orlando townhouse. During a meeting with FBI agents during which Todashev was allegedly being questioned about a triple murder that Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev is a suspect in, Todasheve was shot and killed, raising numerous questions in the minds of neighbors and revealing an interesting daisy chain of online links. Todashev lived, and was killed, in the Windhaven condominium complex located in Orlando, Florida, near the Universal...

The grieving father of a teenage boy killed at a track meet was ambushed by January 6 rioters who demanded he take part in a 'Protect White People' press conference. Metcalf's 17-year-old son Austin was tragically stabbed in the chest while attending a track meet at his Texas high school on April 2. Teenager Karmelo Anthony was last week granted bond as he awaits his next court appearance on a charge of murder. The case has become a lightning rod for political debates, with a fundraiser for Karmelo topping $480,000 as supporters rally behind him and say he's been treated...

The feds suspected alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador in an error, was engaged in human and labor trafficking in 2022, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post. The DHS intelligence report noted that Abrego Garcia was pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on Dec. 1, 2022, after he was caught speeding. Officers found eight other individuals in the car with Abrego Garcia, who said he was driving “three days ago” from Houston, Texas, to Temple Hills, Maryland, “to bring in people to perform construction work,” according to the memo. The...

<p>WASHINGTON — After a bombing killed 19 U.S. airmen at a barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the Clinton administration struck back by unmasking Iranian intelligence officers around the world, significantly disrupting Iranian-backed terrorism, according to a high-level U.S. official and a former top official who was serving at the time of the operation.</p>

Investigation into Fatal Shooting at 2501 Westridge Street April 10, 2025 The fatal shooting of a man at 2501 Westridge Street about 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday (April 9) will be referred to a Harris County grand jury The identity of the deceased male, 18, is pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. The male shooter, 20, was not injured in the incident. HPD Homicide Division Detectives L. Patterson and N. Henderson reported: HPD patrol officers responded to a home invasion call at an apartment complex at the above address and were told by witnesses that three males...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee grilled whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim this week over his criticism of transgender medical treatments, months after the Biden Justice Department dropped criminal charges against him. During a Wednesday hearing titled "Ending Lawfare Against Whistleblowers Who Protect Children," Haim defended his decision to leak documents to the media, revealing that Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston performed transgender medical procedures on minors through May 2023. "I wouldn't want this to be done to anyone, not even liberals, even if they're the craziest communists ever," Haim said during the hearing. "There's no one in this country who...

Dapper Detective @Dapper_Det BREAKING: An ILLEGAL ALIEN from Guatemala, Cesar Augusto Perez Mejia, has been ARRESTED for practicing dentistry without a license and aggravated assault— breaking a woman’s teeth and jaw with pliers in his Houston apartment. Mejia is now on an ICE hold.

HOUSTON -- Three teenage girls are in custody after allegedly planning to kill their mother because she turned off the Wi-Fi in their Texas home. Harris County deputies say the incident occurred in Houston overnight on Sunday. The girls, ages 14, 15, and 16, reportedly grabbed kitchen knives and chased their mother through the house and into the street, attempting to stab her. Authorities say one of the teens struck the mother with a brick. Their grandmother was also knocked down while trying to protect the mother.

On February 5, 2025, an officer responded to a “suspicious person with a weapon” call near a Jack-in-the-Box located on the 5900 block of Gulf Freeway. The video does not say what department the officer was with. The address is in downtown Houston, so the officer is probably from the Houston Police Department. The officer noticed a young man and started questioning him. The young man stated he had been inside the Jack-in-the-Box watching his brothers sell “waters” outside. A man, with a knife in hand, had rushed at his brothers. The young man said he had pulled out a...

A licensed embalmer from Texas is facing charges after officials say she cut off a dead man’s penis in February with a scalpel after finding out he was a registered sex offender. According to Constable Alan Rosen of Harris County, 34-year-old Amber Laudermilk is charged with felony abuse of a corpse for the incident at Memorial Mortuary and Crematory. Officials say Laudermilk cut off the genitals of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, who was a registered sex offender. A report from KPRC said Laudermilk allegedly then stuffed the man’s penis in his mouth before his cremation. According to witnesses, Laudermilk did...

Texas Congressman Al Green was removed from the House of Representatives chamber this evening after repeatedly heckling and refusing to sit down during President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress. Green, 77, announced to the press upon his exit that he once again plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump. He threatened the same a few weeks ago, citing Trump’s plan for Gaza.

Authorities raided the notorious migrant development of Colony Ridge just north of Houston on Monday, rounding up 118 illegal migrants — including accused killers and kiddie-sex offenders. Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News that the raid by federal and state agencies was only the first of many that will target the crime-ridden “colonia. “This is something a little different today,” said Homan, who joined in the raid, on Monday. “You know, this is a larger criminal investigation into a network. And a lot of the people we were interested in were located in that area.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...

A prominent Obama administration trade advisor is one of the central players in a series of scandals and ethical rows that have reportedly placed him in cahoots with corrupt Congolese warlords and other questionable figures. Kase Lawal, an oil mogul with longstanding ties to the Clinton family, was appointed in 2010 as a member of Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Since his selection to the trade board, Lawal has become enmeshed in a pact to purchase large quantities of illegal gold from a violent Congolese warlord, according to a U.N. investigation and various reports. The crooked gold...

An early morning attempted armed robbery in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood ended with an exchange of gunfire and one suspect dead after the victim, who had a FOID card and Concealed Carry License, fired shots, police said. The incident took place around 5:18 a.m. in the 900 block of S. Homan, police said, when two unknown men approached the victim, a 28-year-old male. The suspects displayed a firearm and announced a robbery, police said, and an exchange of gunfire ensued. One of the suspects, a 42-year-old male, sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on scene....

A furious construction worker has dared President Donald Trump to arrest and deport him as immigration officials prepare for biggest deportation raid in American history. The apparent migrant worker aired his frustration with Trump's immigration overhaul in a taunting video shared to TikTok this week. 'Daddy Trump, you wanna take us the f*** out of here? Come do this s**t, then,' the laborer, wearing an A&M Contractors branded hardhat, jeered. He snidely questioned who would carry out America's construction projects if Trump deports all the undocumented migrant builders. 'Look who the **** built your house, look who the **** built...

The Trump-led Department of Justice has dropped the Biden DOJ’s case against Eithan Haim, a Texas-based doctor who blew the whistle on gender-reassignment procedures that were being performed on minors despite state directives banning the practice. “The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the Court just granted dismissal,” Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News. “The case has been dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children’s Hospital.” “We took on the...

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Police and city officials in Houston said evidence in storage lockers is being destroyed by "drug-addicted rats." Mayor John Whitmire said at a news conference that drugs being stored in evidence lockers are attracting rats that feast on the illicit narcotics and cause damage to other evidence in the process. "We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying," Whitmire said. The mayor announced the start of an initiative in partnership with the Harris County District Attorney's Office to organize the 1.2 million pieces of evidence stored by the...