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Dallas County commissioners are demanding that the state do more to provide mental health beds for inmates found incompetent to stand trial.

A North Texas man was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a scam that victimized many people to the tune of thousands of dollars each, according to Leigha Simonton, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Nigerian-born Emanuel…

A Dallas man was charged on Wednesday for selling Glock “switches,” devices that convert semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic ones, to undercover officers. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Jeremiah Dwyen Ashley, 22, allegedly conducted sales of illegal firearms both…

Dozens of migrants arrived in Dallas on Tuesday and Wednesday after a three-hour bus ride from one of the several detention centers in Texas, where thousands of other migrants are still being processed for entry into the United States. For most, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church is but a brief…

Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting for faith-based adoption agencies to have the right to discriminate on the basis of gender-identity, sexual orientation, and same-sex marriage status.

Rafael Munoz understands the importance of the issue facing “Dreamers” in the federal courts. He’s a first-generation child of an immigrant family from a border town near Del Rio, where he was born. It was a personal journey for him and his family, and one he’s been trying to help…

Last week a Texas court handed abortion-rights advocates a victory when it dismissed a lawsuit against a San Antonio doctor who provided an abortion in September to a woman who was more than six weeks pregnant. It’s a significant win for those who oppose Texas Senate Bill 8, also known…

‘Tis the season for hot button issues as the Texas Legislature prepares for its upcoming session in 2023. Bills touching on topics ranging from abolishing the city of Austin, marijuana reform, legal sports gambling and school library books will be on the table during the 88th legislative session, which begins…

Suhaib Allababidi, 45, of Grand Prairie lied to the federal government about where the products his company sold to government entities were manufactured, says U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Chad E. Meacham. According to a statement released by Meacham’s office, Allababidi ‘s company, 2M Solutions in Grand…

Facing several legal challenges, President Joe Biden’s student loan relief plan hit another roadblock, this time from a federal court in Texas.

J. Nicholas Bryant was 23 at the time of his crimes. Now, he’s pleaded guilty in a federal court.

On Thursday, Collin College reached a settlement with Suzanne Jones, a professor who filed a federal lawsuit against the school alleging she’d been terminated for exercising her free speech rights. Jones, an education professor, was let go in January 2021 in an incident that became part of what critics say…

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…