Waller County, Texas, has had a complicated racial history since the days when it was a part of Mexico. At one of its first settlements, Bernardo Plantation, about 100 slaves grew cotton on a large farm on the banks of the Brazos. Yet in the years before Texas fought Mexico for its independence, the area became a magnet for free blacks from elsewhere in the South who sought a welcoming home.
The messy, confusing double legacy of that history has persisted to the present, most recently embo
An exasperated Sandra Bland left what is now a haunting voicemail on her friend’s phone shortly after seeing a judge.
“I’m still just at a loss for words honestly at this whole process,” Bland said on the message obtained byKTRK. “How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this, I don’t even know.”
The 22-second voicemail left July 11, is the latest piece of the puzzle that is still unclear as to how 28-year-old Sandra Bland went from being arrested during a traffic stop on J
Natasha Graver, 32, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with felony child abuse for leaving her 4-month-old daughter in her van for about 3-1/2 hours on July 5, 2014.
(Photo: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)
A woman who attended a funeral Saturday nearly had a second one on her hands when she left her 4-month-old daughter in her van for about 3½ hours.
Natasha Graver, 32, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with one count of child abuse, a felony, and was booked early Sunday in Pinellas Cou
Inmates Jasmine Jones and Norris Speed
Faulty locks and lengthy incarceration – not to mention having a planned rendezvous interrupted by a guard – are reasons two Fulton County inmates are in a boatload of trouble. And that’s on top of the issues that got them jailed in the first place.
Norris Speed and Jasmine Jones had been in the the Fulton County jail since 2011 and it appears they finally let temptation get the best of ‘em.
In an official incident report obtained by The Atlanta Journal C
