Nineteen Texans, mostly women, were arrested Tuesday for their role in a methamphetamine distribution ring the U.S. Department of Justice says was operating out of the southeast Dallas County towns of Pleasant Grove, Seagoville and Balch Springs. Each person named in the indictment is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess…
Nicholas Fierros Jr., a Dallas 10-year-old kidnapped during an apparent home invasion Monday afternoon in Dallas, is “physically fine,” Dallas police said Tuesday afternoon. A couple found Fierros after several hours and identified him from photos distributed by Dallas police, Assistant Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker said. The three men who…
In court documents, the Securities and Exchange Commission refers to him only as “Client One,” and all we know about him is that he is a prominent former Major League Baseball player who lost millions in a “Ponzi-like” scheme involving Ash Narayan, an investment adviser working for a Dallas-based wealth management…
Dallas police have been looking for Jesus Anthony Rodriguez since February 5. With the help of the United States Marshal North Texas Fugitive Task Force, they finally got their man over the weekend, booking Rodriguez into Dallas County Jail early Saturday morning. According to DPD, Rodriguez, his common law wife and…
Baylor University football coach-in-exile Art Briles is not going to go down without an ugly fight. The coach is now accusing Baylor of making him a scapegoat in its ongoing investigation into the alleged mishandling of multiple reports of sexual assault by football players. Jasmin Hernandez says former football player Tevin…
Among Texans who feel they’ve been screwed over by tow companies, Pat Johnson has established himself as something of a hero. Through his website, Texas Towing Compliance, his personal blog, and the advice he’s freely dispensed pro bono over the phone on the finer points of towing law, such as…
Late last month, it seemed that Baylor University had done what it had to do. Following revelations of a football culture that seemingly stymied victims of sexual assault by football players, the school removed former Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr from his role as president of the university and suspended football…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing Dallas cops’ response to Sunday’s mass shooting at a gay-friendly Orlando night club with a $1 million donation. The cash will pay for an estimated 16,000 hours of overtime to be used for what the city describes as “enhanced counterterrorism efforts, including additional…
It remains one of the creepiest instances of child exploitation North Texas has ever seen, and now a court has sentenced Randy Ray Wesson to 30 years in federal prison for committing it. Sometime in January 2014, Wesson met Ricardo Lugo, 17, on Instagram. Wesson lived in Hurst. Lugo lived…
Shawn Diamond, the guy who was shot while charging a Dallas police officer at Love Field with a landscaping rock, is out of the hospital. Diamond, 29, was booked into Dallas County Jail late Monday for domestic violence assault and assault of a public servant. Diamond’s long North Texas ordeal,…
Sometime around noon Friday, there was a shooting just outside the terminal at Love Field. Bryan Armstrong, who says he’d just got off a flight at the airport, captured the incident on video, which appears to show a Dallas police officer shooting an individual just outside Baggage Claim Door 3…
Marijuana wasn’t always illegal in the United States. In colonial times, hemp was used as legal tender in colonial Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. In the 1800s, cannabis was ubiquitous as an ingredient in tinctures and pharmaceuticals. Its highly concentrated extract, hashish, enjoyed a burst of popularity in mid-century, captured in…
Somehow, Ken Starr keeps making Baylor’s expanding sexual assault catastrophe even worse. Friday morning, a Waco TV station released the full video of an interview it conducted with Starr on Wednesday shortly after he made the decision to resign as chancellor of the university. During the interview, KWTX’s Julie Hays asks…
If Joshua Barton wanted to test the chair he sat in when his blood drawn after his arrest for DWI in 2015, then he should have gotten sick right away, Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. Because he didn’t, the level of cleanliness in the room police use to…
Baylor has done the bare minimum it had to do after revelations of a campus culture that turned its back on, and often actively worked against, victims of sexual assaults committed by members of the school’s football team. Art Briles, the former Stephenville High School and University of Houston head…
There’s a tunnel connecting the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to the U.S. Agency for International Development office building across the street. It’s a popular — and safe— thoroughfare for the diplomats, accountants, Foreign Service officers and non-governmental agency workers involved in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Jeff Millslagle is walking through…
Headless, that’s how Jubal Alexander was found. Sitting in his blue Chevy pickup, parked underneath a bridge near a boat ramp in Brazoria County, he hadn’t been heard from since April 27, local news reported. Even though he worked overnights as a pipe cutter at a local chemical plant, the…
Two men were killed by Garland police Sunday night after they opened fire on a Garland ISD security guard outside of a Mohammed caricature contest. The event, held at the Garland ISD event center, was organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which has been classified as an anti-Muslim group…
The April 17, 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, destroyed more than 500 homes and left a crater 93 feet wide and 12 feet deep was caused by a fire that was intentionally set, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday. “We have…
In the months before she was murdered in Midlothian’s Creekside Church of Christ on April 18 while setting up for her fitness class, Missy Bevers was engaged in an online relationship that turned “flirtatious and familiar” Midlothian police said in a search warrant released Thursday. Beginning in January, Bevers communicated…
Former Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel turned himself into Dallas County authorities Wednesday afternoon. His surrender came after a Dallas County grand jury indicted him last week for assault causing a bodily injury to a member of his household, a misdemeanor. Manziel is accused of hitting his…
For supporters of equal rights and equal protection, the outcome of Monday night’s Rockwall City Council meeting was good. Despite the best efforts of Mayor Jim Pruitt, the city did not pass a bathroom ordinance that would’ve required city facilities and businesses to make sure customers use the restroom matching…
