Before he landed in a North Texas jail last month on seditious conspiracy charges for allegedly trying to overthrow the U.S. government, then Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes pushed a dark and apocalyptic vision of what lay in store for the U.S. According to Rhodes, it’s only a matter of…
When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A Navy veteran with 20 years of service, he had been caught with less than a gram of crack cocaine and…
A series of bogus emails gave it away: Jennifer Faith, authorities say, baited her boyfriend into murdering her husband.
Last week’s meeting got off to a smooth enough start. Kayla Kates-Brown from Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission, or HHS, read off a few changes to the meeting itinerary. She collected votes from attending members to proceed. The plodding tedium you’d expect from a virtual state government subcommittee meeting seemed…
Shannon Daves, a transgender woman, was homeless when Dallas police officers arrested her for an alleged misdemeanor in January 2018. (It’s not clear from court documents what she’d been charged with.) Four years later, her case could have dire consequences for those fighting for bail reform in Texas and around…
One of the alleged masterminds of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol will stay locked up until trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Elmer Stewart Rhodes, who goes by Stewart Rhodes, founded the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia. He was arrested earlier this month on the rarely…
Henry “Michael” Williams had already been convicted of a felony and wasn’t even supposed to have a gun himself, federal authorities say, but that didn’t stop him from selling a handgun to a man he recalled only as someone with a “British accent.” The man with the accent was Malik…
​​Seated in her recliner in November, Avi Colunga had just finished feeding her infant when she saw the “horrify[ing]” news. Since 2018, Colunga, 25, has worked at XTC Cabaret in Dallas as an entertainer. Before that, she had bartended. But scrolling through Instagram with her daughter Xeppelin in her lap,…
Elmer Stewart Rhodes, 56, founded the Oath Keepers in 2009. Now, he’s facing the prospect of two decades in prison over his alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Authorities say a man in Tyler has several aliases that he used, along with fake business ties and military achievements, to defraud investors.
It’s barely been a week since Netflix released the second season of the popular docuseries Cheer, and already another cheerleading coach connected to the show is facing new sexual abuse allegations. In a lawsuit filed in Travis County earlier today, Carrie Methvin, a former family friend of cheerleading coach Jason…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed another lawsuit against Google. On Wednesday, Paxton’s office announced the suit against Google LLC, whom the state’s attorney general accuses of “engaging in false and misleading practices” that violate Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices – Consumer Protection Act. As part of the lawsuit, Paxton’s…
A row of defendants sat handcuffed with their backs to the public benches. The courtroom 108 in Plano was jammed. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Johnson had a slate of cases on her docket, but the buzz in the room focused mostly on one defendant. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of a right-wing…
Several dogs have been shot in the last few months. Some have died. Police are still looking for the people responsible.
University administrators at a network of elite colleges across the U.S. have worked together to form a “cartel” that, as a group, drove up the cost of admissions and excluded financial aid students since at least 2003, a new lawsuit alleges. Among the schools accused of participating in the alleged…
It wasn’t the first time Nathaniel Edward Gonzalez had sold heroin to someone who eventually overdosed. Gonzalez, 36, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for drug trafficking last Thursday. But 16 years ago, he was convicted on almost the exact same charges. Back in 2005, Brenden Thayer, a…
Dallas has been wrestling with the best way to deal with panhandling, but the solutions just keep falling short. Now, the city is holding court on the street, literally. In 2018, Dallas police said they would stop enforcing a city ordinance banning people from asking for money on the streets…
The statute of limitations for most potential charges stemming from alleged police misconduct during the Summer 2020 protests will expire at the end of May. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot is trying to collect more information about several incidents
Two men are facing charges for defrauding a woman out of over $700,000 after convincing her she was on “secret probation.”
Places with few or no lawyers are called “legal deserts,” and they exist all over the country.
In a perfect world, we’d right about now thank the universe that it was a slow news year. Honestly, we’d like to celebrate that Christmas is upon us. We’d like to all be enjoying the company of our relatives. We’d like to hardly feel the need to drink at all…
The Dallas County District Attorneys office obtained a warrant for Dallas Police officer Melvin Williams who is accused of shooting a protester in the face with a “less lethal” round. The shot fractured the protesters cheek, knocked out several teeth, and left him with only 40% vision in his left eye. Williams’ warrant is for misdemeanor assault.
