AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A federal judge in Austin has struck down key provisions of Texas’ new law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled late Tuesday the law violates the free speech rights of both doctors and patients.
The law is set to take effect Thursday.
A New York-based reproductive rights group had sued to block the law from taking effect.
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A Brazos County district court jury takes seven minutes to find a Bryan man guilty of shooting and wounding a Bryan policeman in December 2022. Then the jury takes less than one hour to reach punishment of life in prison. 46 year old Joshua Herrin was convicted of aggravated assault against a public servant, when he fired at the officer while running away from a traffic stop in the area of Wayside Drive and Avondale Avenue. The officer did not return fire. Herrin drove away in the officer’s patrol vehicle then abandoned it. The following day, Herrin shot and wounded a Brazos County sheriff’s deputy in the Benchley area. Herrin, who was captured following a standoff, faces a trial in Robertson County related to that incident. That trial will be prosecuted by the Brazos County district attorney’s office. Herrin remains in the Brazos County jail as of November 5th in lieu of bonds totaling $5.7 million dollars. Click below to hear comments from Brazos County district attorney Jarvis Parsons, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver. Listen to “Brazos County's district attorney visits after a jury convicts and sentences a Bryan man for shooting and wounding a Bryan policeman” on Spreaker.
Business at Thursday’s Texas A&M system board of regents meeting (November 7) includes moving ahead with the flagship campus eliminating 52 low enrollment minor degree and certificate programs. In October, A&M’s chief academic officer was criticized by the faculty senate for not including members before making his decision. After that, A&M’s president called for restarting the process, using the faculty senate, to determine the fate of 14 minors and 38 certificate programs. The regents agenda includes a resolution to move ahead with the provost’s decision, which was made following input from deans, department heads, and other faculty. The resolution also calls on presidents at other system universities to “promptly initiate a review of minors and certificate programs to identify any low-producing programs that may require elimination.” Attached to the resolution, are 11 pages of low producing minor degree and certificate programs at the flagship that are recommended to remain, become inactive, or be eliminated. The resolution will be considered following a meeting of the regents academic affairs committee. The committee’s agenda includes discussing the proposed resolution and receiving a presentation about low producing minors and certificate programs. Click HERE to read and download the proposed resolution and 11 pages of low producing minor degree and certificate programs that are recommended to remain, become inactive, or be eliminated.
Neighborhood complaints to Bryan police leads to undercover officers being deployed to buy cocaine and crack cocaine and observe sales of illegal drugs. Arrest reports released last weekend of what was done in August and September led to six men and two women going to jail. BPD arrest reports say drug purchases were made from six street level dealers at various locations. And undercover surveillance also spotted illegal sales of hydrocodone and PCP. 75 year old Curtis James Hall of Bryan was charged with four counts of manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance. Those incidents took place on November 1st, September 7th, in October 2023, and July of 2022. Hall was also charged with possession of a controlled substance on November 1st and misdemeanor possession of marijuana in October 2023. Hall, who went to jail for the 27th time since January of 1990, was released after posting bonds totaling $137,000 dollars. 51 year old Christopher Leon Hill of Bryan was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance on August 13th and 14th, possession of a controlled substance on September 1st, and misdemeanor possession of marijuana and public intoxication on October 25th. Online records show it’s the 65th time Hill has been in the Brazos County jail since November 2001. He remains held as of November 5th in lieu of bonds totaling $55,000 dollars. 37 year old Quentin McMiller of Bryan went to jail on a charge of manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance that took place November 1st. McMiller, who went to jail for the 25th time since April 2005, remains held as of November 5th in lieu of a $15,000 dollar bond. 26 year old Preston Wiggins IV of Bryan was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of marijuana that took place on September 5th. Online jail records also show bond was pulled in five pending trials for offenses that took place in 2023…four on drug charges and one for evading arrest. Wiggins, who went to jail for the 20th time since October 2016, remains held as of November 5th in lieu of bonds totaling $75,000 dollars. 33 year old Bobby Perry II of Bryan was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor possession of marijuana during the November 1st search of the home Perry shared with McMiller. Perry, who went to jail for the 19th time since July 2010, was released after posting bonds totaling $21,000 dollars. 46 year old Rolando Taylor of Bryan was charged with an undercover sale of crack cocaine in August. When he was arrested November 1st, it was on additional charges of manufacture/delivery of crack cocaine, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and unlawful carrying of a gun inside a bar. Taylor was released from jail after posting bonds totaling $55,000 dollars. 56 year old Twanda Mosley of Bryan was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance in a drug free zone on August 7th and August 9th and manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance on August 13th and September 5th. She remains jailed as of November 5th in lieu of bonds totaling $40,000 dollars. 28 year old Anteria Jackson of Bryan was charged with possession of a controlled substance and evidence tampering on September 18th and warrants related to DWI and another case of evidence tampering. Jackson, who went to jail for the 14th time since February 2014, remains held as of November 5th in lieu of bonds totaling $48,000 dollars. Bond has not been set on a motion to revoke probation on a evidence tampering conviction that took place in March 2021.
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