On Monday, Texas conspiracy theorist and owner of InfoWars filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol riot select committee seeking to block lawmakers from accessing his phone records and making him testify at a deposition next month. Instead, he has offered to provide “written answers” to their questions, an offer the…
A previous ruling on the qualified immunity defense for officers involved in the death of Tony Timpa was reversed in a successful appeal from the Timpa family.
Late last month, Dallas City Council members rolled out a new plan for curbing panhandling across the city. The Panhandling Deflection Program aims to connect people asking for money on the street to social services that will keep them from panhandling in the future. To access those services, panhandlers will be…
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) filed a motion with the Texas Supreme Court to have a ban on the products reinstated. That request was denied on Friday.
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in Texas’ exceptionally harsh abortion ban. Abortion providers will be permitted to challenge the state law effectively banning nearly all abortions after the six-week mark, the court ruled. But abortion providers will only be permitted to sue a narrow group of state…
Jim McDade, the president of the Dallas Fire Fighters Association, maintains that the paramedic who kicked a mentally ill man repeatedly in 2019 was just defending himself.
Two doctors involved in a Texas-based healthcare fraud scheme were sentenced to over two decades in federal prison and ordered to pay tens-of-millions of dollars in restitution.
The Navarro County District Attorney’s Office has arranged a trial date for Michael Police, a former Navarro College student accused of possessing drug paraphernalia amid claims that a campus cop had racially profiled the Black former student-athlete. Navarro County District Attorney William Thompson sought the trial date for early January 2022…
As his brother’s mental health spiraled, Devon Pickard grew alarmed. He had spent the last five years working as a diving instructor in Hawaii and had just moved back to Van Zandt County, where he lived with his father while he tried “to regroup and figure out what’s next.” Meanwhile,…
Every year, Dallas County gives people the ability to expunge certain criminal offenses from their past. This year, the county expunged 800 offenses.
In August 2017, hundreds of white nationalists traveled from across the country for the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, marched on a university campus in a torchlit rally and attacked community members and protesters around the city. By the time the unrest was quelled, one of the neo-Nazi…
Another former employee is suing Collin College. He’s alleging retaliation and race- and disability-based discrimination.
Finis Prendergast passed nearly three years in what he calls “the depths of hell.” Some days were spent “literally starv ing on the floor.” At other times, his surroundings became so rancid Prendergast could barely breathe. “The air smells like urine,” he told Vice in February. “I think they counted…
The Aryan Circle, the second largest prison gang in Texas, is known for going to war both behind bars and outside the clink, but the feds racked up victories against two of the neo-Nazi outfit’s members this week. As part of a federal trial in Beaumont, a jury convicted Aryan…
The Texas Department of State Health Services revoked Brad Cox’s paramedic license, saying he creates an imminent danger to the public health and safety.
Of course he does. After all, It’s only been a couple weeks since Rolling Stone reported that Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert was among a gaggle of GOP lawmakers allegedly meeting in secret with the organizers of the Jan. 6 insurrection. (Gohmert has dismissed the allegations as false.) But when you’re Louie…
The state filed an appeal that puts its ban on delta-8 and other THC isomers until hemp companies can file an emergency motion to their temporary injunction against the ban reinstated.
A Russian and Ukrainian national face over 100 years in prison for charges related to ransomware attacks across the country.
The Texas Department of State Health Services essentially banned delta-8 and other THC isomers by adding them to the controlled substances list. After a hearing on Friday, a judge granted a temporary injunction against the ban.
Mark Zuckerberg’s had a busy few weeks. In response to a lawsuit, his company Meta (formerly Facebook) plans to delete facial recognition data, a move Texas officials are fighting. On Oct. 20, the attorney general for the District of Columbia added Zuckerberg as a defendant in a 2018 lawsuit that…
Some of the biggest alleged scores by two former USPS contractors included a $2 million check to Pershing, LLC and a $241,863 check to Sodexo Inc. & Affiliates, a food services company.
Months after undergoing dental surgery at Stonebriar Facial and Oral Surgery in Frisco, Indeera Musa claims X-rays revealed a piece of a drill bit used during the procedural was accidentally left inside her jaw, according to a lawsuit filed this year.
