Most people don’t realize that Texas has had a pretty cool law on the books since 1985 that bars merchants from charging customers extra for paying by credit card. The famously annoying credit card surcharge feels like it’s everywhere, and Texas is just one of a handful of states where…
For the second week in a row, demonstrators took to Dallas streets to protest an out-of-state grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black man. Unlike last week, Dallas police blocked off access to Interstate 35 and kept demonstrators from closing the freeway…
He didn’t do it. That’s what Eric Williams’ defense boiled down to. Despite the storage locker filled with weapons and survival gear, the getaway car bought using an assumed name, the emailed confession that came from his house and the bullet found in his possession that came from the same…
You can’t make this stuff up. Early on the morning of November 25, Kory Watkins, cop-watcher extraordinaire and face of Open Carry Tarrant County, says he was hit by a drunk driver on his way home from a cop watch. The watch’s target? A DWI checkpoint. In Watkins own words…
Stacks of cash, an arsenal of guns and ammo and homemade bombs were among the items investigators seized from the home and storage locker belonging to former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams, a witnesse testified in the second day of Williams’ trial for the murder of Cynthia…
Aaron Rodarte, the Dallas Police Department officer arrested for DWI in Highland Park early Sunday morning, was found passed out in his BMW at the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Roland Avenue, according to Highland Park police. Officers pounded on Rodarte’s windows to wake him up. When he finally did…
Kelvion Walker, the 20-year-old Dallas man shot by police officer Amy Wilburn as he sat in a car with his hands up in December 2013, has amended his federal lawsuit to claim higher damages against Wilburn after Dallas Police Department brass criticized Wilburn in depositions last week. As Sky Chadde…
The trial of Eric Williams, the former justice of the peace accused of killing the Kaufman County district attorney, the district attorney’s wife and one of the district attorney’s top assistants started Monday morning. The trial is being held at the Rockwall County Courthouse, the venue to which it was…
In late October, Dallas police chief David Brown promised the public that his department would make data from the last 12 years of Dallas police officers shooting people readily available. On Tuesday, just as everyone was checking out for Thanksgiving, Brown made good on his promise. The department has posted…
Until the very end, Tuesday night’s demonstration in Dallas against the grand jury’s decision in the Ferguson case was uneventful. Marchers congregated at Dallas Police Department headquarters in the Cedars then walked through downtown to protest the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson for…
Kristina Leisey’s former fiance sits in jail in Hopkins County on a drug-possession charge, his link to the world outside a telephone and frequent calls to her. “He’s trying to call every day, sometimes two or three times a day,” Leisey says. “He doesn’t understand how much it adds up…
The disgusting news from the Hurst child pornography case just keeps coming. An Instagram account matching one described in court documents as belonging to Ricardo Lugo is still live. He was enrolled at Hurst Hills Elementary school as Matthew Wesson, after Randy Wesson, his alleged accomplice, picked him up from…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com In December of last year, Kelvion Walker became another black teenager shot by a police officer. He had jumped into the passenger’s seat of a car his friend had stolen without his knowledge, but his friend bailed when Officer Amy Wilburn approached. This left Walker alone…
Randy Wesson, the 28-year-old man arrested by Hurst Police on child pornography charges, has admitted some of the details of his alleged crimes, police say. After his arrest, Wesson told detectives they could find about 42,000 images of child pornography on his computer, electronic storage and phone. He also admitted…
Randy Ray Wesson and Ricardo Javid Lugo have been arrested by detectives from the Hurst Police Department after a search of Fort Worth home revealed a “large amount of evidence of child pornography and exploitation of children,” according to Hurst Police. Cops say Wesson posed as Lugo’s father in August…
Julian Harris, a rookie officer in the Dallas Police Department’s South Central Patrol Division, was arrested Thursday morning after police were called to meet with an injured woman at Dallas’ Charlton Methodist Hospital. DPD detectives say that a fight between Harris and the woman at Harris’ Dallas apartment escalated into…
The Desoto Police Department’s first attempt to run off Sergeant James Henrise came around 1996. Henrise and a fellow cop had come forward with evidence they claimed showed that Chief John Horvath had improperly meddled in a seven-year-old murder investigation and used public funds to finance a family vacation to…
Shortly after midnight on September 2, 2013, Brice Johnson, then 19, began a conversation with Arron Keahey on MeetMe.com, a social-networking platform that would change both of their lives. Over the next few hours, the two men exchanged messages, many of them sexually explicit, before Johnson gave Keahey directions to…
More proof that the white man is under attack: a bunch of local white supremacists are facing criminal charges for allegedly dealing meth in North Texas and beyond. As far as white supremacist drug gangs go, this one appears to be relatively diverse. Some of the people in the meth…
In October 2012, Travis County officials promised that bringing video visitation to the local jails wouldn’t affect anything else about jail visits. “We’re not changing anything else from what we’re doing,” Travis County Major Darren Long told the county commissioners before they voted to approve a contract with Securus, the…
After Jason Harrison’s father sued the city, the Dallas Police Department and the two officers who shot and killed his son, Harrison’s mother and brother, David, have filed a lawsuit of their own. They claim Harrison, a schizophrenic, posed no threat when officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins, killed him…
Insecam is a super-creepy Moscow-based website that is currently streaming footage from 73,000 unsecured IP cameras. The site says it’s doing it to promote security — it is able to access the cameras because their owners never changed their default password — but clearly has revenue-generating ads. There are feeds…
