A wave of funding for police in North Texas schools is on the way. Late last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it was distributing about $126 million to add policing and public safety measures in schools. About $1.8 million of that funding is coming to six different…
Among a number of new laws taking effect on Jan. 1 is a law handing control of local law enforcement budgets over to county residents in Texas. Authored by state Sen. Joan Huffman the new law requires any reduction to the budgets of local law enforcement agencies (meaning county sheriff’s…
Between North Texas Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan, the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19 and an endless series of worrisome new laws on the books, it was a hell of a year. It’s hard to know where to start, but the Observer has a few suggestion for catching up on…
Sean Leek was excited to live near his mother again. It was 2018, and he’d recently moved back to the area around the same time she bought a house in Delaware. “Finally,” he thought, “we’re gonna be back in each other’s lives.” Within months, he realized something was off about…
After a final ruling in district court which said the ban smokable hemp ban was unlawful, the Texas Department of State Health Services filed a notice of appeal to the decision with the Texas Supreme Court. This notice supersedes the final ruling until the Texas Supreme Court reaches a decision on the appeal.
Five states – Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia, Florida and Texas – saw the highest rates of fatal holiday car crashes per 100,000 drivers. Additionally, the fatal collisions in Connecticut, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina and Wisconsin were more likely to involve drunk or impaired drivers.
Beau Daniel Merryman could go to federal prison for 20 years.
When hackers breached the Houston-based Colonial Pipeline’s cybersecurity defenses in late April, the whole country took a hit. Within days, drivers from Houston to New Hampshire found themselves waiting in line for hours to get gas.The federal government later concluded the country could’ve only lasted another three to five days…
On Friday, journalist Barrett Brown announced he’d been convicted on charges related to a banner he’d held at a London protest.
SB 5 goes into affect on Jan. 18, 2022. Violating the law will be a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500. Repeat offenses could lead to Class B misdemeanor charges.
While companies wait to hear more on the legality of THC isomers like delta- 8, some are stocking their shelves with delta-9 products they say are legal and will get consumers stoned.
The Denton Responsible Reformation of Cannabis Enforcement Act of 2021 would decriminalize misdemeanor amounts of weed in Denton.
Four Caldwell High School students are facing felony charges after they forcibly removed a 14-year-old teammate’s underwear on the school bus, authorities say.
Earlier this month, Dallas police detained a mother and son in their home after they mistook them for burglars.
A 73-year-old man was arrested in Mexico after he was accused of killing a woman in front of her North Texas home.
In November 2017, Amanda Clairmont’s body was found in her car, parked next to a fence in a vacant parking lot along the service road off Interstate 35 in Corinth. Her passenger door was open. Clairmont, a 21-year-old a business major at the University of North Texas, had been shot…
Early Wednesday afternoon, buses carried students down Debbie Lane toward the Mansfield Performing Arts Center in Arlington. Parents rushed to pick up their children, who had just been evacuated from Timberview High School following a shooting that had injured at least four people. Standing alongside her mother, Stephanie, ninth grader…
When around a dozen Dallas County Jail officers gathered on the steps of the Frank Crowley Courthouse Tuesday, they wore street clothes, donned masks and held signs denouncing what they say is a dangerous staffing crisis inside the jail. “What we’ve been seeing recently is people retire, quit or just…
Almost a year ago, former Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall announced the city’s plans to expand Starlight, an initiative that equips local businesses with high-tech surveillance cameras feeding back to the city’s “fusion center.” The program was so successful in driving down crime in those locations, police claimed, they…
On a balmy evening last November in Tyler, Enus Lewis finally came undone. After dark, Lewis left his mother’s house and staggered into oncoming traffic on the busiest road he could find, hoping an oncoming car would kill him. Months of battling a tidal wave of grief had sharpened Lewis’…
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a GOP-backed “bail reform” bill into law, but opponents fear that it could exacerbate inequities.
A North Texas wedding planner was sentenced to federal prison after he used COVID-19 relief funds to purchase cars and pay off his mortgage.
