The Colony Police Department announced Monday that a retired soldier — who famously stood at attention for hours outside Dallas Police headquarters in honor of the officers killed in last summer’s ambush — was killed in his home Sunday night. Police found Chandler Davis, 34, with a gunshot wound to…
Just after midnight Sunday, San Antonio police got a call about a suspicious tractor-trailer in the back of a Walmart parking lot. There, they found a horror that has captured the nation’s attention. According to a federal criminal complaint released Monday, federal authorities have charged James Matthew Bradley Jr. with…
Dallas police announced late Thursday night that they’ve arrested a suspect connected to at least two sexual assaults in the city over the last month. Police have not released the suspect’s name because they believe he may be connected to additional crimes. At about 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, a man approached…
Hey. Be careful what you say about Detroit. I don’t know anything about this new Dallas police chief coming down here — U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department — but I do know a little bit about her hometown. Judging by some of the comments…
On Wednesday, Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, for the first time gave the public a glimpse of his side of the story. In a court filing made in response to the federal civil lawsuit filed against Oliver by Edwards’ parents, the former…
Dallas police announced late Wednesday afternoon that they are suspending the investigation into an altercation involving Ezekiel Elliott on Sunday night at Clutch in Uptown because of a lack of cooperation from both the complainant and witnesses. Police responded to Clutch around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a police reports…
On Wednesday afternoon, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced that Dallas’ next police chief will be U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department. She’ll take over the post vacated by former Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who retired in October. She’s expected to start on September…
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday that the teenager found dead in a southeast Dallas creek Sunday morning is Mikayla Mitchell, the 17-year-old stepdaughter of Howard Diamond, a Sherman doctor whom federal prosecutors recently connected to seven overdose. Police found Mitchell in a creek near the 3000 block of Rochester Street just before…
Hicks Holdings, the Dallas-based investment arm of the family of former Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks, announced Tuesday that it’s throwing its considerable weight behind a company that makes body cameras and in-car video systems for police departments and transit authorities across the country. The investment in Georgia-based Utility…
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and kick returner Lucky Whitehead is having a rough 2017. In April, the Cowboys drafted his potential replacement — the University of North Carolina’s Ryan Switzer — jeopardizing Whitehead’s playing status in 2017. Last week, something worse happened to Whitehead: Someone stole his dog, Blitz. According…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted a former Balch Springs police officer for murder. Roy Oliver, 37, is charged with killing Jordan Edwards, 15, as Oliver and another officer attempted to break up a house party in the Dallas County suburb. After heading into the house to break up…
On Sunday afternoon, Dallas police announced the end to a tragic weekend. Just before noon, police said, they’d been called to the 3000 block of Rochester Street in southeast Dallas. When they arrived, they found a woman’s body floating in the creek. The unidentified woman had been murdered, according to…
A new study published in July’s American Journal of Public Health attacks one of contemporary policing’s biggest questions using data culled from the Dallas Police Department. The central question: Are white police officers more likely to use force against nonwhite suspects? The answer in Dallas appears to be no, according…
Maybe for once I will try to exercise the better part of valor and not wade knee-deep into the El Paso public school cheating scandal, about which I know not one thing except for this: A federal district court judge in El Paso recently tossed federal prosecutors and the FBI…
The only suspect in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation into voter fraud in May’s City Council election is in custody. Miguel Hernandez has been on the lam for more than a month; a warrant was issued June 2 for his arrest on illegal voting charges. A grand jury…
Dallas police have confirmed that a suspect took a shot at officers as they tried to serve an aggravated assault warrant at an apartment complex Thursday morning. At about 6 a.m. Thursday, U.S. marshals and Dallas police officers attempted to arrest the suspect at the Rosemont at Cedar Crest Apartments…
A Tarrant County judge sentenced two former Arlington jailers to one year of probation Tuesday for their role in the 2015 death of inmate Jonathan Paul. Pedro Medina and Steven Schmidt both pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges. Each initially received a felony charge of criminally negligent homicide. Arlington police picked…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave the keynote speech at 30th Drug Abuse Resistance Education International Training Conference in Grapevine on Tuesday afternoon. Ostensibly, the attorney general was on the program to talk to the drug-prevention educators at the conference about the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in Texas and…
On Tuesday, Dallas police arrested Julio Ruvalcaba for shooting and killing Christopher Geddes on Sunday. The incident started at a CVS Pharmacy on South Buckner Boulevard on Sunday afternoon. Surveillance video recorded at the store shows Geddes, 31, shoplifting from the store. According to DPD, Geddes headed to the parking lot after taking the…
A Dallas County grand jury issued its first indictment in the ongoing investigation into mail-in ballot fraud in West Dallas on Monday. The grand jury charged Miguel Hernandez, 27, with illegal voting, a second-degree felony. Investigators in the case believe Hernandez is responsible for at least one of the tainted…
The cruelty, grief and alienation that spring from racism are all still with us, continuing to deform our day-to-day lives, because white supremacy is still with us. White supremacy is a social chasm across which people can barely see each other, let alone hear and understand. None of that will…
Dallas Police Department officials announced Friday afternoon that the department will turn over its investigation of last year’s murders of five Dallas officers to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office next week, more than a year after Micah Johnson opened fire on police following a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas…
