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.
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.
A U.S. judge in Texas sentenced Maritza Claudia Fernanda Lorza Ramirez to 90 months in prison.
Even as criticism has mounted, Gov. Greg Abbott has time and again doubled down on his program busing migrants to sanctuary cities. Now, the Texas Republican’s buses are reportedly facing another roadblock: the Washington, D.C., Attorney General’s office has launched an investigation. As first reported Friday by the Texas Tribune and…
It all started a little more than two years ago after a minor nearly died from a heroin overdose, and it ended Thursday with a 30-year sentence in a federal prison for supplying the heroin that eventually led to the medical emergency. On Thursday, U.S. Judge Sean D. Jordan in…
The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization American Oversight is still locked in a court battle with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a lawsuit requesting that they release certain public records, including communications with gun advocacy groups and others related to the U.S. Capitol riot. American…
The Texas-based conspiracy theorist has called on his viewers to cough up more dough, insisting that his legal battles are all “made up.”
The way federal authorities tell it, Everett Wayne Copelin had a long list of people he intended to kill: migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Black people, Jews, federal agents and supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. In early September, the FBI learned of Copelin’s threats, which he made under…
Since he launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promoted the controversial border crackdown as a state-led effort to do the federal government’s job. With November’s midterm elections almost here, the governor is promoting the border operation more and more. Operation Lone Star has proven…
Only a few days after Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election, Oath Keepers militia founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes was already on InfoWars warning that the “deep state” was trying to “illegitimately” remove then-President Donald Trump. Rhodes laid out his militia’s plans in an interview with host Alex…
On Thursday, a Hunt County jury unanimously found Shaun Lucas, a former police officer who shot and killed a Black man named Jonathan Price in October 2020, not guilty of murder. Lucas, who was fired from the Wolfe City Police Department following the incident, admitted to shooting 31-year-old Price, but…
Bidisha Rudra and her friends were the victims of a racist verbal and physical attack last month. Now, Rudra hopes a civil lawsuit will teach her attacker a lesson.
The Anti-Defamation League says anti-Semitic incidents hit an all-time high in 2021.
On Oct. 3, 2020, police officer Shaun Lucas shot and killed Jonathan Price in Wolfe City. He’s now on trial for first-degree murder.
Posing for a picture during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, probably wasn’t Nicholas DeCarlo’s best idea, but it likely wasn’t the worst decision he made that day either. Along with Nicholas Ochs, a Honolulu resident and purported leader in the far-right Proud Boys group, North Texas native…
The way federal authorities tell it, Jesse Paul Blankenship burned a tattoo off another man’s skin with a metal rod he’d heated with a blowtorch. He also participated in a kidnapping and opened fire on two people in their home. Between 2010 and 2021, federal authorities say, Blankenship had “put…
Chris Cabler worked hard, loved animals and had a big heart. He would help his family whenever he could. He had two grown children he loved dearly and a grandson who was 6 days old when he died. On May 5, 2019, Cabler hanged himself in a jail in Red…
From bounty hunters to bank robbers, from Bonnie and Clyde to the Newton Gang, Texas has a rich and well-documented history of outlandish crime stories. Historians have dedicated entire books to some of the state’s most notorious crimes and criminal outfits. Unsurprisingly, Texas offered several unsettling crime-related headlines this month…
A former top staffer with the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life has been arrested on charges of online solicitation of a minor.
A community rallied around the UT-Arlington student after she lost custody of her daughter. Now, some think her entire story was built on lies.
The trial begins for three protesters who demanded the removal of a Confederate monument in Gainesville.
