For years, as oil and gas companies increased production, they hired lots of workers, enriching communities across the United States. That is no longer true. The country is pumping more oil than ever and near-record amounts of gas. But the companies that extract, transport and process these fossil fuels employ …
It was just after 3 a.m. in the warm Houston summer of 2019, when first responders arrived at Renard and Patricia Spivey’s home and found 52-year-old Patricia dead in the closet from multiple gunshot wounds. FIRST RESPONDER (bodycam): We can definitely see a wound within her abdomen right there. OFFICER: …
In the early morning hours of Halloween 2020 — a day when the boundaries between the living and the dead become blurred — Livye Lewis was discovered draped over the steering wheel of her car, dead from a rifle shot to the neck. Livye had just turned 19. DEPUTY: (crime …
On Oct. 31, 2020, at around 5 a.m. Livye Lewis was found unresponsive in her car on the side of a road in Hemphill, Texas. Her ex-boyfriend, Matthew Edgar, said he had no memory of what happened to Lewis or how he ended up in the fetal position behind her …
This story originally aired on Dec. 16, 2023 In the early morning hours of Sept. 22, 2020, when Laredo, Texas, police officer Gregorio De La Cruz walked inside the home on Canyon Oak Drive, his body camera was recording the emergency unfolding in front of him. At the top of …
This story originally aired on Jan. 13, 2024 When Travis County Sheriff’s detectives Paul Salo and James Moore arrived to investigate a shooting at Ted and Corey Shaughnessy‘s Austin, Texas, home early on March 2, 2018, they first thought it might be a robbery gone wrong. Det. Paul Salo: It …
This story originally aired on Jan. 20, 2024. Cayley Mandadi, 19, was a sophomore at Trinity University when she was brought to a Texas hospital on Oct. 29, 2017. She was nearly naked, bruised and not breathing. Her sometime boyfriend Mark Howerton told doctors they’d taken ecstasy at a music …
These are not soaring times for higher education. Tuition costs rise unchecked. Contempt for today’s campus culture—the trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggressions—helped swing the election, and this past week, President-elect Donald Trump nominated former WWE executive Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education, an agency that each year distributes …
In the months after Alyssa Burkett was murdered, she appeared to her mother, Teresa Collard, in a dream. Teresa Collard: I see her across the room and in my dream — I knew she was gone but I was hysterically happy that I was seeing her and I was thinking …
For Texas Ranger Brandon Bess, almost everything about the Mary Catherine Edwards case was different. Ranger Brandon Bess: The thing that really got me about the case was, you don’t expect to have this beautiful, young, single, schoolteacher be murdered in her own home …. She was such a great …