Law

A court case forced a Santeria priest to reveal some of his religion’s secrets. Its ritual of animal sacrifice, he revealed on his own.

An Open Letter to Craig Watkins

Does This Mean a New Trial for Emily Dowdy?

Watkins: Not Entirely Shook Up?

Night of the Living Dead

Who Owns "America's Team"?

All Shook Up

Can I Get a Witness?

The District Attorney's Office gets the right guy for the wrong reason.

Follywood

A B-actress, computer mayhem and families feudin'! Making a movie with your rich friends is just courting disaster.

Going Down in Downtown

Craig's List

Debtors like Craig Watkins used to end up in jail. Now they run for district attorney.

Train Kept on Rollin'

Emily Dowdy's case hangs on a judge's opinion of her own performance on the bench

Hot Dog Bun Justice

Republicans Heart the Defense

Coloring Book

What color will the district attorney be, and who gives a rat's rear end?

Cell Disease

Being sick in Dallas County's troubled jail can be a death sentence

Roots

The mess at City Hall goes back to ancient times

Race, Race, Race

Man. Now everybody's calling everybody a racist.

Oklahoma Railroad

Accused of killing a cop's son, Emily Dowdy learns the hard way that in Oklahoma City justice isn't blind. It works for the prosecution.

Cell-bloc Voting

A new effort tries to unlock former felons' votes

Science Fiction

Why would we even think about giving this guy his own crime lab?

The Taxman Cometh

The IRS delivers a slap to a dubious charity deal

Mr. No Apology

Bill Hill's office helped jail dozens of innocent people, and he's a shoo-in for re-election. Huh?

License to Scam

Is anything actually against the law in Texas elections?

Inhale With Hale

Itinerant pro-pot candidate Steven Hale is down again, but not out

The Way of the Gun

The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

For a growing number of Texas kids with mental illnesses, the only place to get help is behind bars.

Thanks, But No Thanks

Turning down millions in state money to build juvenile boot camps, Tarrant County opted for a different approach--one that works

Unhappy Campers

Critics of a private prison firm that ran two juvenile boot camps in Dallas wonder where the love is at these "tough love academies"

The Superpredator

Think it's brutal to send a 14-year-old boy to prison for decades? Meet Billy Ray Dennis, and think again.

Make 'em Pay

Spurred by a horrifying wave of teen violence in the '90s, Texas today spends more money than ever to lock up young criminals. Are we getting our money's worth?

Scene, Heard

A few more area musicians make appearances on the Cartoon Network

We Shall Stay on Top

Black leadership goes in the tank on civil rights, fights for the police chief's job instead

Deep Doo-doo

One side or the other broke the law in a messy city council race, Dallas' top election official says

Access Denied

In the he-said, she-said world of child visitation disputes, dads like Doug Watkins say fathers have no rights

Innocent as Charged

After his acquittal on an assault charge, Clark Birdsall questions the system he once embraced

Dirty Cops, Dirty Games

The untold story of Dallas' bigest-ever police corruption scandal. Part two of a special report.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

The untold story of Dallas' biggest-ever police corruption scandal

Taxing Situation

A tax-protesting CEO enlists his employees in the cause

Good time Charlie

The don of Dallas criminal lawyers, Charles Tessmer reshaped justice through decades of hard-fought cases and hard drink

Equal work, unequal pay

Two former Dallas prosecutors say that's what they suffered

Bush's free ride

With a little help from his Democratic pals, George W. Bush has become the GOP front-runner for president. But it's a cold world beyond Texas' borders, and it may take more than charm and luck to carry a good ol' boy to the White House.

GOP to gays: Butt out

Texas' Log Cabin Republicans find themselves the ultimate outsiders--vilified by both the GOP and fellow gays

Choosing sides

The race for judge in Dallas' domestic-violence court raises questions of bias

Crime and no punishment

A legal loophole lets illegal immigrants get out of jail nearly free

Who ya gonna call?

Lawyer Kenneth Mayfield racks up a winning record in the courts he helps oversee as a county commissioner

Dueling tapes

Gadfly injects more secret tape recordings into the Peavy saga

A Minor Affair

When young love ended in a rape allegation, the juvenile justice system left a Dallas teen's life in limbo.

The Dope Bowl

Lawyers, goons, money--and some very curious sex toys. Laura Miller does the post-game analysis of the Michael Irvin trial.

'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part II)

Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents - or their religion?