Crime & Police

On the heels of legal challenges from the city, Dallas poker enthusiasts may be headed to the Texas Legislature to fight for legal games in the state.

The Dallas Central Appraisal District is still working to get all of its systems back online after a ransomware attack last week.

The group’s new political ad includes a 911 call in which a child says, “Please hurry. There’s a lot of bodies.”

The Collin County Republican Party made light of the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in a meme shared to its Facebook page.

For much of his reelection campaign, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has railed against challenger Beto O’Rourke and other Democrats for supposedly supporting policies that encourage crime. Now, some Texas Democrats have flipped the script, arguing that Abbott bears responsibility for violent crime in the wake of a shooting that killed…

Police are still investigating the killing of 45-year-old Jaqueline Pokuaa, a nurse, and a 63-year-old social worker named Katie Flowers at Methodist Dallas Medical Center this weekend.

A second woman has filed a lawsuit against Esmeralda Upton, a Plano resident caught on video attacking and hurling racist insults at a group of Indian American women as they were winding down a night out in late August. Indrani Banerjee and three friends met at the restaurant Sixty Vines…

As more details of the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting are revealed, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District sees more firings, retirings, and the suspension of its whole police force.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would pardon everyone who was convicted under federal law for simple marijuana possession, calling on governors to do the same. “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” the president said in a statement, adding that imprisoning…

On Tuesday, a Mexican citizen was shot and killed while being held in Border Patrol’s custody, prompting calls for a transparent investigation into the incident. The deadly shooting took place at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in El Paso, officials said in a press release. The incident came a week…

Frisco Police officers tased a man, causing him to fall to the ground and sustain a fatal head injury. The Texas Rangers and Collin County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.

An “outside vendor” may help the Dallas Police Department track the off-duty work of its officers.

When the Bexar County sheriff held a livestream press conference on Monday, he didn’t hold back from letting everyone know he was angry. In fact, he said he was “furious” over a stunt last week that saw dozens of migrants recruited from Texas and shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. On…

While there was some divide in opinion when it came to total bans of assault rifles, a survey by the University of Houston and Texas Southern University found “overwhelming” bipartisan support for more gun control measures in Texas.

To hear the state’s top cop tell it, he backs the blue harder than the blue’s ever been backed. But on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took a different tack. A day after the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced it was investigating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant plane to…

The Lew Sterrett Justice Center’s time in Dallas may be up as the county’s commissioners consider replacing it.

Like they did back in July, Dallas Water Utilities customers were sent fraudulent notices over the phone claiming they needed to pay their bill or service would be disconnected.

In August, local attorney Mark Melton accused a clerk at a Dallas County Justice of the Peace court of forging a notice in his client’s eviction case. Since then, Melton has deposed clerks with the court who claim they didn’t see the notice in question in his client’s file until he came around asking questions about it. The judge and clerk accused of forging the notice completely deny the claims.

At a press conference Wednesday, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia apologized after news broke that an officer had created and tried to sell a racist commemorative challenge coin. Speaking at the event with the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, Garcia said the officer, whom he didn’t name, had been…

In undercover footage by video outlet The Undercurrent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said the FBI needs to clean house.

A Plano woman could be looking at hate crime charges following a confrontation on Wednesday in which she hurled her fists, racist insults and even threats of violence

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has been subpoenaed on allegations of sexual abuse of members for decades