Amid an ongoing heatwave and prolonged drought, Dallas County reported the first heat-related death thus far in 2022 on Thursday. In a press release, Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) said the victim was a 66-year-old woman who lived in Dallas and had “underlying health conditions.” “We are very…
As one of the hottest summers on record in North Texas continues to pound areas across Dallas-Fort Worth, several counties in the region are battling wildfires that have forced evacuations and left buildings in flames. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued a red flag fire warning for North and…
Last year, CPAC Dallas attracted thousands of attendees. This year, the convention will again include hardline Republican speakers from across the country and beyond.
Texas ranks in the top three states that didn’t produce enough homes in 2019.
Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott, a Republican appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott to his post in October 2021, communicated directly with a conspiracy theorist pushing the debunked notion that President Joe Biden’s victory was fraudulent and that the elections were marred by widespread voter fraud, according to text…
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott goes on Fox News, he’s not too shy to brag about his anti-migrant policies. On Sunday, he told the conservative news channel that Texas and the U.S. was enduring an “invasion driven by the cartels” on the southern border. “We’ve turned back tens of thousands…
Dallas County has documented more than 600,000 cases of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.
The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office has announced the sixth annual Dallas County Expunction Expo, giving people the opportunity to have certain offenses wiped from their records. Launched in 2017, the Expunction Expo received a record number of applications in a one-week period last year, according to a press release…
A nonprofit watchdog has filed a lawsuit against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton demanding the release of several public records requests related to deadly school shootings and the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, among other topics. American Oversight, based in D.C., filed the lawsuit…
Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans across the state applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return abortion-related decisions to states. Now, Abbott and his conservative crew aren’t so happy with the highest justices in the land. With a 5-4 vote on…
When Mayra Flores, a Latina Republican recently elected to Congress, went on Fox News earlier this week, she snapped back when her interviewers asked whether she supported the QAnon conspiracy theory. Flores, who announced she was joining the House Committee on Homeland Security this week, represents Texas’ 34th Congressional District,…
On Friday, a grand jury in Collin County indicted Dallas police officer and Texas House candidate Frederick Frazier on a third-degree felony charge of impersonating a public servant, the Dallas Police Department confirmed by email. Frazier, who works for the Dallas Police Department and is vying for House District 61’s…
Umeka Treymane Myers spent the money she bilked from a Dallas County jail commissary program in big ways. She bought flights, traveled around the country and went to casinos. Now, she could spend 10 years in a federal prison. Myers, a 49-year-old clerk who worked at the Lew Sterrett Justice…
The Garland Police Department says a contract driver for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) sexually assaulted a young woman who has a mental disability. The driver, 44-year-old Samson Assefa Lemma, was arrested at his home in Wylie Tuesday night. Garland police officers learned earlier this month that he allegedly…
When a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the government from ending Title 42, a controversial policy that allows the U.S. to expel migrants on public health grounds because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texan Republicans leapt to celebrate the ruling and rights groups quickly issued condemnations. Judge Robert Summerhays, writing in…
It all started with an alarmingly detailed artistic portrayal of a phallus. The graffiti in question was scrawled on the side of a portable toilet at a North Dallas construction site off the path that will eventually become the Silver Line. Alongside the phallus was a message. Although it’s difficult…
Mexican authorities handed the cartel boss over to the U.S. earlier this week.
At 3:38 a.m. on Tuesday, the Dallas Police Department announced on Twitter that it had arrested a suspect they believed was responsible for a shooting that injured three women of Korean descent at a hair salon a week earlier. Shortly after 2 p.m., Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said at…
Since he launched Operation Lone Star last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has attracted criticism from rights groups and advocates over the controversial border clampdown. But his latest idea – pressuring the federal government to cut off baby formula to migrant children – is possibly his harshest yet. On Thursday,…
California resident Jeremy Hanson is accused of sending anti-LGBTQ death threats to the University of North Texas’ president, Merriam-Webster and several others.
In Texas, the number of drug overdose deaths rose by at least 15.9% last year.
On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dealt Crystal Mason, who was controversially convicted of illegal voting for submitting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election, what looked like a small win. Mason, a Black woman who had previously been convicted of federal tax fraud, could wind up in…
