In emails and posts on a private Facebook page, parents are responding to last week’s killing at UT-Austin by demanding something be done about the homeless, especially along the Drag.
Terri Langford
Terri Langford is the Tribune's health services reporter based in Austin. Langford is a veteran journalist, having worked at the Florida Times Union, The Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, WNYC, Honolulu Civil Beat and Texas Standard/KUT. Langford has a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin. She has covered various city and state agencies, criminal justice and health and human services for the Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, The Associated Press, WNYC and Texas Standard at KUT.
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Politics
Sid Miller’s Communications Director Resigns
Lucy Nashed, communications director for Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, has resigned after the agriculture department gave contradictory reports on whether Miller had used state funds to compete in a rodeo.
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Health care
Foster Home Crunch Strands Children in Psychiatric Facilities
Abused children in Texas are being left in psychiatric facilities longer than they were six years ago as the state’s child protective services system grapples with federal court scrutiny and diminishing options.
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Politics
Despite Endorsing Ted Cruz, No Record Rick Perry Voted
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have stumped for Ted Cruz for president, but there’s no record he voted in this year’s Republican primary in Texas.
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Criminal Justice
Judge: Lawyer for Fired Trooper Must Offer Better Reason To Delay Sandra Bland Lawsuit
A federal judge on Thursday said attorneys for fired Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Brian Encinia haven’t yet offered a good enough reason to keep a civil rights lawsuit filed by the mother of Sandra Bland from moving forward.
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Politics
Volatile Republican Presidential Race Fueled Record Primary Turnout
Voting turnout in Texas surged on Tuesday with the highest number of Republican voters making it to the polls for the party’s primary in more than a decade, thanks largely to a volatile presidential party contest.
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Criminal Justice
DPS Investigating State Rep. Dawnna Dukes’ “Concerns”
State Rep. Dawnna Dukes has asked the Texas Department of Public Safety for an investigation, the agency confirmed late Friday. Exactly what it will focus on is not clear.
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Bordering on Insecurity
Undocumented Killer Had Extensive Teen Record
Before two murders landed him in Texas prison, Obed Josafhat Rodriguez racked up a criminal history stretching back to his first arrest for stealing a car at age 12, but his immigration status failed to trigger any action while he was a juvenile.
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Criminal Justice
18 Texas Correctional Officers Disciplined in Inmate Death
Texas prison officials have recommended the firing of a supervisor at the Clements Unit and disciplinary actions against 17 others for allowing a severely beaten inmate to remain undiscovered in his cell for an unknown amount of time.
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Criminal Justice
An Inquest Into the Texas Way of Declaring Death
Some news for the armchair detectives second-guessing how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in Texas was declared over the phone: Not every dead body gets an autopsy, and Texas is no outlier in that department.
