Aqua RichJo | September 25, 2026 Melissa Lucio remains on Texas death row after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a lower court’s finding that she was innocent of her daughter’s 2007 death. Four judges dissented. The ruling does not set an immediate execution date. This case has several legal decisions that cannot be folded into one headline. Lucio was convicted and sentenced to death in 2008. In 2024, a district judge recommended overturning her conviction and fin

Aqua RichJo | September 24, 2026 Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot during an ICE stop in Austin. The officer who fired had been issued a body camera but was not wearing it, according to news reports. Now Garces Perez is in ICE detention, and a member of Congress says he needs surgery to remove a bullet near his spine. A camera cannot answer every question about a shooting. Here, the footage that might show the moment an officer fired reportedly does not exist. Another offic

Imagine looking up from your work on Jefferson Boulevard and seeing the word DIGNIDAD roll past in giant pink letters. That happened in Dallas on September 19. Colombian artist Iván Argote’s mobile sculpture traveled by flatbed from Dallas Contemporary to the Latino Cultural Center and through Oak Cliff, stopping at places including the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and Top Ten Records. Along the way, people gathered for conversation, film, music and a monument that came to them