City Council member Paul Ridley beat David Blewett with 61% of the vote in District 14, despite the raising a fraction of the funds. Now, Ridley is having trouble getting his opponents’ board and commission appointees to step down for his replacements.
Just about everyone around Arlington’s Seville Commons shopping center knew Margarita “Maggie” Brooks and her dog. Brooks, 30, and her boyfriend had been living on the streets, but she had earned a reputation in the area as a “good hearted person,” said Larry Hamilton, who lives nearby and knew her…
Santos Rodriguez was killed in 1973 by a Dallas cop who tried to get him to confess to an $8 vending machine robbery with a Russian-roulette interrogation. It took 40 years for the Rodriguez family to get an apology from a Dallas mayor. It took them 48 years to get an apology from the city’s top cop. Now, people wonder if a street should be named after Santos.
As soon as Casie Tomlin found the FedEx envelope in her mailbox, she knew something looked fishy. Inside, a flyer from a group called Dallas Justice Now urged parents in Dallas’ wealthy – and largely white – Highland Park and University Park suburbs to not send their kids to Ivy…
America’s criminal justice system is rigged, exacting punishment and inhumane imprisonment disproportionately upon certain targeted groups, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert contends. The victims of this oppressive system? Trump supporters like him, of course. In a Monday tweet, Gohmert wrote, “Sadly, two systems of justice exist in America today: one for…
Dallas Cred violence interrupters fan out to four crime-heavy areas of the city. They don’t intervene in active violent situations. Their job is to interrupt patterns that lead to violent behavior and wreak havoc on communities.
A former Collin College professor says she left after enduring years of racial harassment.
In 2019, the Dallas Police Department’s marijuana arrests and citations accounted for half of all of these referrals sent to the DA’s office for prosecution.
Health officials are reporting a deadly fungus spread among patients in two Dallas-area hospitals.
By all accounts, Mauro Rivera Romero was clearly ill. After U.S. Border Patrol officers arrested him on a Greyhound bus near El Paso in 2011, he complained of persistent abdominal pain. He told officers he’d been hospitalized for a stomach infection only days before. On his second day in Immigration…
Law enforcement uncovered significant amounts of drugs and cash at a southeast Dallas home last week.
Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called “breakthrough cases.”
The Fort Worth Police Chief said he sees few benefits in a civilian police review board. Others only see benefits.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign received a $100,000 donation from AT&T on the same day he vowed to pass restrictive voting laws during Texas’ special legislative session. AT&T’s CEO has said the company supports expanding voting rights nationwide.
These fish are massive. Silver carp can reach approximately 3 feet in length and can weigh nearly 60 pounds. Bighead carp can be up to 4 and a half feet long and weigh nearly 90 pounds. Now, they’re in Texas waters.
Just a year ago, protesters around the country, including in Dallas, rallied around the slogan. It was on the tip of everyone’s tongues: “Defund the police.” Conservatives were outraged. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed a slate of so-called “back the blue” bills in the Legislature, and in Dallas, budget discussions…
Dallas County’s Expunction Expo is on its fifth year and has a record number of applicants hoping to get their records expunged.
Texas Democrats in 2003 fled to Ardmore, Oklahoma, to block gerrymandering legislation.
When the number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Dallas County hit 300 and suspected cases tacked on another 106 on Monday, it marked a sad milestone:
Some civil rights leaders are accusing the Biden administration of breaking its promise to end border wall construction.
For the next 28 months, exotic cat rancher Paul Michael Malagerio will be locked up in federal prison for his visa overstay and illegally possessing three firearms.
After 15 minutes inside a Fort Worth cell phone store, a group of robbers walked out with cash and electronics, hopped into a grey Nissan Altima and left the scene. Store employees were left on the floor with their hands zip-tied behind their backs. The robbers knew what they were doing. They’d done it many times before.
