Courts

A judge in the tiny Texas county of Loving has been accused of cattle rustling.

Mexican authorities handed the cartel boss over to the U.S. earlier this week.

In an unhinged rant, InfoWars owner Alex Jones screams at viewers to buy products, insisting it’s a matter of “life and death.”

California resident Jeremy Hanson is accused of sending anti-LGBTQ death threats to the University of North Texas’ president, Merriam-Webster and several others.

On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dealt Crystal Mason, who was controversially convicted of illegal voting for submitting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election, what looked like a small win. Mason, a Black woman who had previously been convicted of federal tax fraud, could wind up in…

Late on Monday, Politico revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade ˆ the 1973 decision that ensures the right to an abortion – in a draft decision written by Justice Samuel Alito in February. The court’s decision will not be official until it is…

A Texas sheriff’s resignation is shining new light on an old problem: excessive force.

Texas conspiracy theorist and InfoWars founder Alex Jones just keeps landing in hot water. In December, he got bad press after saying he refused to answer questions from the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Now, three of his companies, including the far-right InfoWars, have filed for bankruptcy,…

Another day, another healthcare grifter bites the dust. On Tuesday, a North Texas healthcare company owner was sentenced to prison over fraud charges, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice in North Texas. U.S. Senior District Judge Terry Means handed down two years to Steven…

A federal grand jury in East Texas has returned a 15-count indictment against seven alleged MS-13 members accused of carrying out a double murder in a penitentiary in late January, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The seven men allegedly planned and committed an attack on members of the…

Public defenders respond after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said their “heart is with the murderers, with the criminals” in a recent interview.

On Wednesday, the highest appeals court in the state upheld Amber Guyger’s conviction and sentencing for killing Botham Jean in 2018.

A Texas law that limits the use of remotely piloted drones to capture images is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Austin ruled Monday. The National Press Photographers Association, the Texas Press Association and former Dallas Observer editor Joseph Pappalardo challenged the so-called “Texas Privacy Act,” which threatened criminal charges and punishing…

For years, Dr. Charles Battle abused his position as a licensed Fort Worth physician to access heaps of controlled substances, the U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged in 2020. The allegations led to a series of criminal charges out of the Northern District of Texas. First among them is a conspiracy to…

Christopher Hill was one of many hitting the bars in Dallas the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day. On the evening of March 12, the 25-year-old went to 77 Degrees Rooftop Bar on Henderson Avenue in Northeast Dallas. The bar was crowded and didn’t have enough staff on site to control…

One America News Network, once a favorite of former president Donald Trump, is suing AT&T and DirecTV over an alleged breach of contract, The Dallas Morning News reported. OAN’s gripe with the Dallas-based telecommunications company stems from DirecTV’s announcement last month that it would not be renewing its contract to…

A Denton County woman filed a lawsuit against a nationwide massage therapy company Tuesday, claiming she was sexually assaulted. Jane Doe, whose identity is concealed court documents because of the nature of her allegation, says she received massage therapy treatments at an Elements Massage franchise in Frisco for two years…

Amid an ongoing staffing shortage at Dallas County Jail, a man held there died while on suicide watch early on Friday, according to internal county records. At the time of his death, Terry Stewart was being housed in solitary confinement in a cell in the jail’s suicide watch wing. A…

A Wylie man charged in connection to the Capitol insurrection could be the first defendant to face conviction following a jury trial.

Dallas County Jail failed to meet Texas’ minimum standards for acceptable jail conditions for the second year in a row. According to a Texas Commission on Jail Standards’ report, state inspectors during an annual weeklong walk-through last month found that jail staff are violating at least four of the state’s…

If they hadn’t scoured the Philly perp’s phone, the FBI might never have found his co-conspirator in Dallas. In 2020, FBI agents executed a search warrant granting them access to all the contents of a phone owned by a Philadelphia sex offender who was previously convicted of child pornography charges…

The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is considered one of the largest and most violent prison gangs in the country.