Updated 7:50 am, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police say a woman has been jailed for slashing her husband with a kitchen knife after catching him looking at other women during a night out together. Authorities say 27-year-old Star Perez was with her husband celebrating a city festival called Fiesta on Saturday when she complained he was ogling others. An argument erupted when they returned home and authorities allege Perez grabbed the knife and swung at her husband, striking him in the arm. He ran outside and called police. The man told officers that his wife said, "I could kill you." Local Channel Now Playing: Now Playing Big shows coming to S.A. 2018 San Antonio Express-News Football Player Shoots Through Locked Door to Kill Ex After She Ended 'Toxic' Relationship People Report: Only One City Seems Really Interested In 2020 GOP Convention, Others Decline Buzz 60 Teen fatally shoots ex-girlfriend, then himself San Antonio … [Read more...] about Police: Texas wife slashed husband for ogling other women
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Texas mom gets 20 years for leaving kids to die in hot car as a ‘lesson’
A Texas mom who left her two kids to die in a hot car as punishment while she smoked weed will spend the next 20 years in prison. Parker County jurors reportedly found 25-year-old Cynthia Marie Randolph guilty Monday of two counts of injury to a child after abandoning her daughter, 2, and son, 16 months. She got 20 years for each count, but prosecutor Jeff Swain told ABC affiliate WFAA the sentences will run concurrently. The children died in May 2017 after being left in a sweltering car that was almost 100 degrees by the time first responders arrived. Randolph, who was charged last June, initially said the kids must’ve gotten themselves locked in the car while she was doing laundry. But Randolph later came clean that she locked them in there as a “lesson” when her daughter, Juliet Ramirez, was playing in the car and refused to get out. Randolph told police she thought the toddler “could get herself and her brother, Cavanaugh Ramirez, out of the car … [Read more...] about Texas mom gets 20 years for leaving kids to die in hot car as a ‘lesson’
A Decade Later, Texas Finally Sees Its First Asian-American U.S. District Judge
For more than a decade, Texans of all political stripes have rooted for Karen Gren Scholer to become a federal judge, even as the job repeatedly slipped through her hands. The former Dallas state district judge was first elected to the bench as a Republican in 2000, where Scholer quickly won respect from Dallas Bar Association members with her fair rulings and judicial temperament. By 2007, she caught the attention of Republican Sen. John Cornyn and former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who interviewed her for a spot on the federal bench in Dallas during George W. Bush’s presidency. But she was passed over for Judge Reed O’Connor, a former federal prosecutor who previously served as Cornyn’s general counsel. Scholer retired from the state bench in 2009, just behind a blue wave in Dallas County in which every trial bench was won by a Democrat. She became a partner at Jones Day and later left to start civil litigation firm Carter Scholer in 2014. … [Read more...] about A Decade Later, Texas Finally Sees Its First Asian-American U.S. District Judge
Double by Ramirez caps Indians’ come-from-behind victory over Texas
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jose Ramirez’s RBI double broke an eighth-inning tie and the Cleveland Indians rallied for a 7-5 win over the Texas Rangers on Monday night.Texas scored twice in the top of the eighth to go ahead 4-3, but the Indians quickly regained the lead by scoring four times against Chris Martin (0-1).Rajai Davis led off with a single and took second on Bradley Zimmer’s one-out single. Davis stole third and scored when Francisco Lindor hit a chopper over Martin’s head. Martin recovered after getting a glove on the ball, but his flip to first place was late. Jason Kipnis flied out. Ramirez, who had an RBI single in the seventh, doubled to right. Martin left with an injury and Yonder Alonzo had a two-run single off Jesse Chavez.The Indians are without ace reliever Andrew Miller, who is on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring and his absence in a tight game was felt again.Texas scored two runs in the eighth off Tyler Olson. Profar’s double … [Read more...] about Double by Ramirez caps Indians’ come-from-behind victory over Texas
Ken Paxton Is Trying to Stop Texas Sick Leave Ordinances Before They Start
Unsurprisingly, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas' Republican leaders aren't exactly pumped about efforts in several Texas cities to guarantee sick days for workers who don't get them as benefits from their employers. Paxton intervened in a lawsuit Monday afternoon filed against the city of Austin — the first municipality to pass a sick leave ordinance in the state — throwing the weight of state government behind an effort initiated by business groups to have the sick leave policy found unconstitutional.“The Austin City Council’s disdain and blatant disregard for the rule of law is an attempt to unlawfully and inappropriately usurp the authority of the state lawmakers chosen by Texas voters and must be stopped,” Paxton said Monday afternoon.Paxton's argument against sick leave is fairly simple. Texas' state minimum wage law, the attorney general says, requires employers paying wages in the state to follow the federal Fair Labor Standard Act, … [Read more...] about Ken Paxton Is Trying to Stop Texas Sick Leave Ordinances Before They Start