Reporter Priscilla Villarreal, otherwise known as "LaGordiLoca," has been hospitalized with pregnancy complications.

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 ...

"They figured that this would shut me down," says Priscilla Villarreal. "But what they did was create a monster." Villarreal is a journalist in the Texas border town of Laredo. She is at the ...

The Supreme Court has overturned a decision of the Fifth Circuit that barred a lawsuit by Priscilla Villarreal, known as La Gordiloca, who was arrested for seeking and publishing nonpublic informat… ...

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 ...

Priscilla Villarreal, who posts her reports on Facebook to more than 200,000 followers, was arrested under a Texas law that makes it a crime to seek non-public information with “intent to obtain ...

Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.

In 2017, police in Laredo, Texas, issued an arrest warrant for Priscilla Villarreal Treviño, a citizen journalist who runs a bilingual Facebook page with more than two hundred thousand ...

Background: In 2017, citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal published details about a traffic accident and the suicide of a U.S. Border Patrol employee that she confirmed with the help of a source ...

Priscilla Villarreal is a citizen journalist on the Texas-Mexico border. Known as “La Gordiloca” – the crazy chubby lady – she publishes local news and gossip on Facebook video streams.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been imprisoned in London for five years, while Texas journalist Priscilla Villarreal was only briefly detained at the Webb County Jail. But both were arrested ...

Editor’s note: This story first appeared on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. A majority of judges in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have ...