Federal authorities say they’ve charged Joseph Garza, a 79-year-old Dallas lawyer, with creating tax shelters to hide more than $1 billion of money from the Internal Revenue Service for his big-dollar clients. Arrested at his home on Oct. 25, he appeared in court the following day, facing 18 counts of…
Local eviction attorney Mark Melton came across a video from the Texas Justice Court Training Center showing a mock eviction trial. The fake tenant, who didn’t show up, was named Danny Deadbeat.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a widely criticized, state-led clampdown on migrants crossing the border, will enjoy another $359.6 million in funds, the governor announced Thursday.
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…
The Dallas City Council almost unanimously approved an ordinance that bans standing on medians. City Council member Adam Bazaldua was the outlier, saying the ordinance could lead to more discriminatory enforcement than marijuana laws.
When it comes to ease of voting, Texas clocks in at No. 46 of all the states nationwide, according to a new study. Published in the Election Law Journal, an academic journal, the study found that only that only four other states made it more difficult than Texas does to…
Rents have been skyrocketing across the country. An investigation by ProPublica and a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month claim the Richardson-based software company RealPage could be to blame.
It might be an awful lot to ask of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, but the Texas Republican has an issue with consistency. When Cruz appeared on Mark Levin’s Fox News program Sunday to promote his new book, Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System, he returned to a…
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.
In September 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law SB 1, legislation that rights groups say has curtailed voters’ access to the ballot box.
Sen. Ted Cruz got a not-so-warm welcome at Sunday’s baseball game between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees.
It all started as it so often does in Texas – with a half-truth. Conservative media figure Sara Gonzales, who works for right-wing BlazeTV, shared a clip of a drag performance that took place at a Plano bar. Gonzales claimed that it had been billed as an “all ages” drag…
A shift from in-person to online work at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the start of a problem Dallas is still dealing with today – long waits for building permits. To some, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.
A U.S. judge in Texas sentenced Maritza Claudia Fernanda Lorza Ramirez to 90 months in prison.
The headline was startling. On Tuesday, the New York Post ran a front-page print story titled “Tex Mess,” claiming that President Joe Biden’s administration had strong-armed El Paso officials into not declaring a “state of emergency” over migrant arrivals. The story, which cited an anonymous official, quickly spread among Texas…
Dallas County is reliably blue. Everybody who follows politics knows that, right? Democrats hold all but one seat on the Commissioners Court, with J.J Koch the only Republican. Justices of the Peace Al Cercone and Steve Seider and Constable Ben Adamcik are the only other Republicans serving in elected office…
The City Council has seen its fair share of disruptors at meetings over the last year. Now, it’s looking into new ways to deal with them.
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…
When outgoing Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley appeared on WFAA’s interview program “Y’all-itics” last month, he made an endorsement some found surprising. The longtime Republican said he wouldn’t support Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s reelection campaign. Instead, Whitley threw his weight behind Mike Collier, the Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Patrick…
The city of Dallas is working on a permanent ordinance that would offer protections to tenants facing eviction.
In post-pandemic Texas and beyond, nurses are facing long-term challenges.
Dallas wants more ways to deal with what it calls “nuisance properties.” It could get them by the end of this month.
