On Monday afternoon the Dallas Zoo announced that two of its emperor tamarin monkeys were missing. In a statement, the Zoo said foul play is likely involved, noting: “It was clear the habitat had been intentionally compromised.” The pair of missing monkeys comes less than two weeks after Pin, the…
Last week, a man arrested for dealing hundreds of pills laced with fentanyl was federally charged with possession and intent to distribute the lethal synthetic opioid, according to Leigha Simonton, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Richard Daniel Gomez, 22, was arrested on Jan. 26 when he…
Earlier this month, 46 men were arrested in Southlake and Frisco during an undercover prostitution sting carried out by local and federal authorities. Some of the details released following the sting have made for eye-catching headlines. Not only was the operation carried out in a couple of affluent suburbs, the…
The Dallas Zoo found one of its lappet-faced vultures dead on Saturday morning. Now, the police are investigating and there’s a $10,000 reward being offered for information that leads to the arrest and indictment of whoever might be responsible for the vulture’s death.
The Dallas Zoo got two clouded leopards in 2021. On Friday, one of them went missing.
Police departments across the state are struggling with officer shortages. State Sen. Nathan Johnson, a Dallas County Democrat, filed a bill this week that may give departments a much needed boost by allowing permanent U.S. residents to become police officers.
With school shootings having become almost commonplace in the United States, school districts and law enforcement agencies have continued to search for ways to prevent them. A new technological program designed to assist faculty in the event of an active shooter takes the focus away from stopping the shooter by…
More than 13,000 previously classified documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released into the National Archive this month. But, thousands remain withheld from disclosure.
The city has been working to divert non-emergency services from the Dallas Police Department to other city staff to increase efficiency. Starting next year, the city’s Department of Transportation will begin taking over street blockage enforcement.
Since 2007, school districts across Texas have been adopting the “guardian plan,” a rule that allows select faculty to carry guns on campus in the hopes that teachers can defend their students in the event of a school shooting. Many rural districts in Texas have adopted the plan over the…
If it wasn’t obvious before, we can say it’s official now: We like reading about polarizing public figures. They really move the needle. Perhaps it’s a schadenfreude thing, or perhaps we just want to keep tabs on the people who seek to have more power over others. Either way, the…
Police maimed protesters with less-lethal ammunition during the 2020 protests against police brutality. Ever since, states and municipalities across the country have considered bans on these types of ammunition. Texas will take up the issue in the upcoming legislative session after the filing of House Bill 974 by Rep. Erin Zwiener.
Denton’s city manager is worried about legal challenges to an ordinance passed by voters that would decriminalize low-level marijuana possession. However, none of the other Texas cities that passed similar ordinances have faced such legal challenges.
On Thursday, Grand Prairie police announced the arrest of Colbie Huffman, 22, in relation to the chase that resulted the crash that killed 32-year-old officer Brandon Tsai. Hoffman was driving a vehicle with fake paper tags when Tsai attempted to pull him over.
On the heels of legal challenges from the city, Dallas poker enthusiasts may be headed to the Texas Legislature to fight for legal games in the state.
The Dallas Central Appraisal District is still working to get all of its systems back online after a ransomware attack last week.
The group’s new political ad includes a 911 call in which a child says, “Please hurry. There’s a lot of bodies.”
The Collin County Republican Party made light of the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in a meme shared to its Facebook page.
For much of his reelection campaign, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has railed against challenger Beto O’Rourke and other Democrats for supposedly supporting policies that encourage crime. Now, some Texas Democrats have flipped the script, arguing that Abbott bears responsibility for violent crime in the wake of a shooting that killed…
Police are still investigating the killing of 45-year-old Jaqueline Pokuaa, a nurse, and a 63-year-old social worker named Katie Flowers at Methodist Dallas Medical Center this weekend.
A second woman has filed a lawsuit against Esmeralda Upton, a Plano resident caught on video attacking and hurling racist insults at a group of Indian American women as they were winding down a night out in late August. Indrani Banerjee and three friends met at the restaurant Sixty Vines…
As more details of the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting are revealed, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District sees more firings, retirings, and the suspension of its whole police force.
