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René Oliveira (March 14, 1955 – January 23, 2024) was an American attorney and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. He was first elected to represent the 37th District in 1981. After losing a 1986 bid for the Texas State Senate, he was out of office from 1987 until he regained his seat in the Texas House in the 1990 ...
On March 3, 1993, Saint Joseph Academy high school senior Albert Joseph "Joey" Fischer Jr. was shot dead outside his home in Rancho Viejo, an upscale community north of Brownsville, Texas. Dora Cisneros, the mother of his ex-girlfriend, was responsible for orchestrating Fischer's murder after he broke up with her daughter Cristina.
García attended Brownsville public schools. [3] García studied at TSC and Southwest Texas State University, then earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Houston. [2] She joined the TSC faculty in 1972, taking a leave of absence two years later to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. García was ...
According to a release from the Pasadena Police Department, suspect Dennis Erwin Brandl Jr. allegedly entered Pasadena Memorial High School in Pasadena, Texas, around 6:00 p.m. local time through ...
Lucio was the first woman of Hispanic descent in Texas to be sentenced to death. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa. Otis McKane: Shooting of Benjamin Marconi. 3 years, 204 days Scott Panetti: Murder of his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Welcome Wade Wilson Sr. (March 17, 1928 [1] [2] – February 16, 2024) [3] was chairman of the Welcome Group—a privately held real estate development firm with 5 million square feet of industrial and manufacturing facilities in over 100 locations in the state of Texas. The company headquarters is located in Houston, Texas . [2]
Brownsville has 37 parks connected by a 1,200-acre (1.9 sq mi) system of parkland and 32 mi (51 km) of bike lanes. The city also has three gymnasiums, two public pools, and 55 athletic fields. [130] Brownsville's proximity to the coast has allowed the city to register several locations under the list of protected areas of the United States.
Susan Combs (born 1945), Texas comptroller and agriculture commissioner, state representative; John B. Connally Jr. (1917–1993), Secretary of the Navy, governor of Texas, US Treasury Secretary; John Cornyn (born 1952), United States Senator since 2002; Tom Craddick (born 1943), member of Texas House of Representatives from Midland; former Speaker