It’s the latter that began turning heads around Laredo, a South Texas town of a quarter-million people. In 2017, when a local U.S. Border Patrol agent died by suicide, Villarreal learned his ...

Last October, the Supreme Court revived a federal civil rights lawsuit by Laredo, Texas, news vlogger Priscilla Villarreal, who was literally arrested for asking questions—a flagrant violation ...

The case, Villarreal v. City of Laredo, arose out of Priscilla Villarreal’s coverage of a traffic accident and the suicide of a U.S. Border Patrol employee in Laredo, Texas. In each case, Villarreal ...

The case of journalist Priscilla Villarreal, who is known to her readers in Laredo, Texas, as "Lagordiloca," pits the First Amendment's guarantee of a free press against the doctrine of qualified ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit filed by an online freelance journalist in Texas who says ... vague. Villarreal sued Laredo officials, alleging her ...

In that decision, Judge James Ho wrote that Villarreal's arrest was "an obvious violation of the Constitution." Ho questioned lawyers for Texas and Laredo on Wednesday about scenarios in which ...