Sherie Williams, 46, was visiting from her home in Minneapolis when she learned that her sister, Shetamia Taylor, 38, of Garland, had been shot in the leg during Thursday night’s ambush massacre of police in downtown Dallas. Williams says Taylor and her three sons had been just about to return…
A rally against police violence became a scene of bedlam when a pair of gunmen opened fire, killing five officers. The hail of gunshots shattered a previously peaceful rally, sending hundreds of people fleeing through the streets in panic. At least two shooters from separate elevated positions above the demonstration site…
Dallas police have cordoned Main Street and the area surrounding Belo Garden downtown following reports of multiple gunshots following a demonstration to protest recent police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota. Unconfirmed reports from bystanders say two police officers may have been wounded. At 9:40 p.m., police ordered…
Last June, 35-year-old James Boulware planted pipe bombs and then shot up DPD headquarters. He was later killed by a police sniper. During an interview with the Dallas Observer, Dallas Police Chief David Brown spoke about the threat of violence his officers feel on the job. In the wake of…
Independence Day, a time when Americans of all stripes come together to celebrate their nation’s birth. Invariably, many do this by making all manner of terrible decisions involving booze, fireworks, large bodies of water, or some combination of the three. And invariably, some of those decisions prove fatal. Below is…
Despite the thousand of tips that have poured in, all of the evidence that’s been collected and all of the man hours that have been put in by the Midlothian police department and federal agents, authorities are apparently no closer to finding Missy Bevers’ killer more than two months after…
Former Cowboys safety C.J. Spillman has been convicted of rape by a Tarrant County jury. He now faces a minimum of two and as many as 20 years in prison at a Friday sentencing hearing. On September 20, 2014 Spillman attacked a woman visiting him from Chicago at the Gaylord…
Local police and federal agencies are investigating the murder of Jacinto Hernández Torres, better known under his byline, Jay Torres. Torres worked for more than 20 years at La Estrella, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Spanish language sister paper. Someone shot the reporter dead, police believe, a few days before…
Nineteen Texans, mostly women, were arrested Tuesday for their role in a methamphetamine distribution ring the U.S. Department of Justice says was operating out of the southeast Dallas County towns of Pleasant Grove, Seagoville and Balch Springs. Each person named in the indictment is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess…
Nicholas Fierros Jr., a Dallas 10-year-old kidnapped during an apparent home invasion Monday afternoon in Dallas, is “physically fine,” Dallas police said Tuesday afternoon. A couple found Fierros after several hours and identified him from photos distributed by Dallas police, Assistant Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker said. The three men who…
In court documents, the Securities and Exchange Commission refers to him only as “Client One,” and all we know about him is that he is a prominent former Major League Baseball player who lost millions in a “Ponzi-like” scheme involving Ash Narayan, an investment adviser working for a Dallas-based wealth management…
Dallas police have been looking for Jesus Anthony Rodriguez since February 5. With the help of the United States Marshal North Texas Fugitive Task Force, they finally got their man over the weekend, booking Rodriguez into Dallas County Jail early Saturday morning. According to DPD, Rodriguez, his common law wife and…
Baylor University football coach-in-exile Art Briles is not going to go down without an ugly fight. The coach is now accusing Baylor of making him a scapegoat in its ongoing investigation into the alleged mishandling of multiple reports of sexual assault by football players. Jasmin Hernandez says former football player Tevin…
Among Texans who feel they’ve been screwed over by tow companies, Pat Johnson has established himself as something of a hero. Through his website, Texas Towing Compliance, his personal blog, and the advice he’s freely dispensed pro bono over the phone on the finer points of towing law, such as…
Late last month, it seemed that Baylor University had done what it had to do. Following revelations of a football culture that seemingly stymied victims of sexual assault by football players, the school removed former Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr from his role as president of the university and suspended football…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing Dallas cops’ response to Sunday’s mass shooting at a gay-friendly Orlando night club with a $1 million donation. The cash will pay for an estimated 16,000 hours of overtime to be used for what the city describes as “enhanced counterterrorism efforts, including additional…
It remains one of the creepiest instances of child exploitation North Texas has ever seen, and now a court has sentenced Randy Ray Wesson to 30 years in federal prison for committing it. Sometime in January 2014, Wesson met Ricardo Lugo, 17, on Instagram. Wesson lived in Hurst. Lugo lived…
Shawn Diamond, the guy who was shot while charging a Dallas police officer at Love Field with a landscaping rock, is out of the hospital. Diamond, 29, was booked into Dallas County Jail late Monday for domestic violence assault and assault of a public servant. Diamond’s long North Texas ordeal,…
Sometime around noon Friday, there was a shooting just outside the terminal at Love Field. Bryan Armstrong, who says he’d just got off a flight at the airport, captured the incident on video, which appears to show a Dallas police officer shooting an individual just outside Baggage Claim Door 3…
Marijuana wasn’t always illegal in the United States. In colonial times, hemp was used as legal tender in colonial Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. In the 1800s, cannabis was ubiquitous as an ingredient in tinctures and pharmaceuticals. Its highly concentrated extract, hashish, enjoyed a burst of popularity in mid-century, captured in…
Somehow, Ken Starr keeps making Baylor’s expanding sexual assault catastrophe even worse. Friday morning, a Waco TV station released the full video of an interview it conducted with Starr on Wednesday shortly after he made the decision to resign as chancellor of the university. During the interview, KWTX’s Julie Hays asks…
If Joshua Barton wanted to test the chair he sat in when his blood drawn after his arrest for DWI in 2015, then he should have gotten sick right away, Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. Because he didn’t, the level of cleanliness in the room police use to…
