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.
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…
