On Aug. 1, Porsha Bookman took to Facebook to voice her gripes about her job at Dallas County Jail. “I just got mandated again!!!!” Bookman posted on Aug. 1. She included the hashtags #wannabefree and #8morehourstogo. Nineteen days later, the 36-year-old died of COVID-19 complications. Five days before her death,…
Internal documents obtained by Human Rights Watch paint a grim picture of the situation for asylum seekers and migrants held by U.S. government immigration authorities.
The Lights Out camapign urges Texas buildings and residents to shut off the lights to protect migratory birds.
In February, Dallas considered a program to hire panhandlers for different jobs around the city. Across the country, cities are doing something similar, paying the homeless to pick up trash.
North Texas colleges and universities could be receiving big upgrades. On Tuesday morning, state lawmakers reached a last-minute deal on additional funding for higher education construction projects across the state. The bill, which now awaits Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature, will funnel more than $200 million into building and renovating new…
Known as “Primazo,” 44-year-old Wilson Wilfredo Luargas-Garcia was extradited to the Eastern District of Texas in April 2018 following a joint operation with American and Guatemalan authorities. The accusations? That he’d helped pump cocaine into Texas and worked closely with an armed guerrilla group in Colombia. More than two years…
Some companies say they’ll keep selling delta-8 THC despite the Texas Department of State Health Services saying the stuff is illegal.
Earlier this month, a Denton County juvenile detention officer was arrested after she was accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile.
Body camera video showed Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic Brad Cox kick a detained mentally ill man in the face while he sat on the ground. Surveillance footage from a nearby business shows he kicked him several more times before police arrive on the scene.
Democrat Mike Collier has officially announced his campaign for Texas lieutenant governor.
During her years as a Burnet County criminal magistrate judge, Roxanne Nelson was at the jail every Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. She saw how county jails dealt with people with mental illnesses accused of committing crimes. “When I started in March 2010, if I couldn’t get…
The Texas Department of State Health Services added a statement to its website that some say put questions over delta-8’s legality to rest.
The Observer has a long, storied history of documenting the people out there who take pleasure in blasting U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. Now, we’d like to introduce you Michael Gunner, the chief minister of Australia’s Northern Territory. On Sunday, Gunner joined the dearly held tradition. In a statement posted to…
Several North Texas school districts have been making headlines over their misguided take on critical race theory.
Another concrete batch plant wants to move into West Dallas. A hearing in front of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Oct. 18 could be neighbors only chance of stopping it.
In the end, Bruce Bise and Samuel Mendez bilked some 13,000 investors out of about $24 million before pleading guilty to tax evasion earlier this week. Since 2016, Bise and Mendez billed Bitqyck, a Dallas-based cryptocurrency company, as a way for “those individuals who missed out on bitcoin” to still…
Just past 2 a.m. on Sept. 14, a man wearing a ball cap, glasses and face mask slipped through the back door of Top Dog Gun Range in Krum, around an hour northwest of Dallas, and headed to the display case. Security camera footage shows the man riffling around in…
A North Texas man was indicted for allegedly threatening a prominent doctor over her COVID-19 vaccine advocacy.
A 73-year-old man was arrested in Mexico after he was accused of killing a woman in front of her North Texas home.
In the months leading up to the November 2020 presidential elections, Fox News recycled then President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of an electoral conspiracy against him. But on Nov. 7, Fox reversed course, declaring Joe Biden the winner. As Trump and his supporters railed against Fox, the most-watched network in the…
She didn’t like it, but in July Melanie Green swallowed her pride and asked the government to help pay her rent. “I’ve always been a Texan, never one to mooch off the system,” she said. “I’m a single parent, but if you were to check the state of Texas’ websites,…
The candidates are saying some weird stuff ahead of next year’s Republican gubernatorial primary.
