Insurance official denies secrecy and discrimination claims
Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor denies claims regulators hide information to shield open records. A department report suggested classifying insurers as financial institutions to gain exemptions, drawing fire from consumer groups over possible redlining data access. Montemayor says the move targets confidentiality of data from regulators, not blocking public market data, and pledges continued release of neighborhood redlining data.
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Austin
Jose Montemayor
Insurance Department
Common Cause and
Consumers Union
Montemayor
Monetmayor
Rob Schneider
Grand jury clears parents in Midland gun death case
In Midland, a grand jury declined to indict Steven and Cindy Chilcoat over their 3-year-old son Micheal Kent Chilcoat’s June death from his father’s loaded 9 millimeter pistol. Prosecutors argued the Texas law requires firearms kept out of children's reach, but jurors found insufficient evidence the gun was made accessible.
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H.W
Woody
Leverett
Micheal Kent Chilcoat
Steven
Cindy Chilcoat
Texas
Grand Jury
Artist Don Yena Auctions Old West Relics in Waco Sale
Don Yena, collector of Old West artifacts, offers a revolver linked to Judge Roy Bean among prized relics. The sale includes rifles engraved with Republica Mexicana and takes place Saturday in Waco at the auction house.
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Don Yena
Roy Bean
Republica Mexicana
Yena
Waco
Judge who banned Spanish removed from custody case
In Houston, State District Judge Lisa Millard who barred the mother Natalia Gonzalez from speaking Spanish at home was recused from the child custody case by Visiting District Judge Fred Edwards. The ban, enacted in 1999 and later broadened, was dropped after evidence of improved English by the child, Carolina Gonzalez, and amid claims of bias by Natalia’s lawyers.
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Lisa Millard
Natalia Gonzalez
Millard
Ramon Gonzalez
Gonzalezes
Carolina
Mexico
Fred Edwards
Michael Solar
Solar
Natalia
Carolina Gonzalez
Rick Noriega
D-Hotston
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