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State Rep. Poncho Nevárez, an Eagle Pass Democrat and House committee chairman, turned himself in to authorities to be booked on felony drug possession charges Thursday evening and was released after ...

A Texas state lawmaker was charged with a third-degree felony after he dropped an envelope filled with cocaine at the airport in Austin in October. Authorities signed a warrant to arrest Democratic ...

Democratic state Rep. Poncho Nevárez, who was caught on camera dropping an envelope containing 2 grams of cocaine at the Austin airport and turned himself in for the felony in November, said in a blog ...

Following a kerfuffle at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Monday, a Democrat lawmaker is admitting that he physically assaulted a fellow state representative. Texas State Rep. Matt Rinaldi ...

AUSTIN — A Republican lawmaker from Hood County called on Monday for Democrat Poncho Nevárez, who was caught on video dropping an envelope full of cocaine at the Austin airport, to resign from two ...

The coils of barbed wire at the edge of Poncho Nevarez’s ranch on the Rio Grande were meant as a deterrent. Instead, they just tore at the bodies and clothes of desperate migrants who clambered ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Hispanic Texas lawmaker who a Republican colleague threatened to shoot "in self-defense" after the Democrat pushed him said Tuesday that the altercation was a boiling point in a ...

Sixty-four House Republicans visited the southern border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday, a backdrop to a legislative package that would introduce more restrictions to the country's border ...