Lauren McGaughy
Investigative Reporter and EditorLauren McGaughy is an investigative reporter and editor. Her expertise areas include courts, criminal justice, governmental ethics and LGBTQ issues. She previously covered Texas politics for The Dallas Morning News and The Houston Chronicle, and Louisiana politics for The New Orleans Times-Picayune. She loves cats, cemeteries and comic books, and cooks a mean steak.
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The Texas Newsroom received hundreds of pages of documents that pull back the curtain on last year's historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Paxton, a Republican who’s been under indictment for securities fraud since 2015, is scheduled to face a jury in April.
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Paxton, a Republican, brought on a private law firm to fight a whistleblower lawsuit accusing him of wrongful termination. His agency has paid the firm at least $700,000 to fight the suit since 2020.
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Paxton, a Republican who beat impeachment charges last year, has commented for the first time on why he has not listed six out-of-state properties on his state ethics forms.
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Paxton, a Republican, beat the impeachment charges and now wants to end the lawsuit underlying them.
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Texas can appeal the decision, which said a suit seeking years of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton's emails can continue.
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Abbott, a Republican, called the contribution from Pennsylvania's Jeff Yass the “largest single donation in Texas history.”
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A newly released document shows the Army investigated Shane James for spousal abuse, but he was never charged or convicted under military law.
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Invoices obtained by The Texas Newsroom through an open records request show that the prosecution billed the state about $3.7 million for their legal teams.
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Shane James is accused of killing six people in a shooting spree that stretched across San Antonio and Austin. He had a long history of interactions with police.