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.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would pardon everyone who was convicted under federal law for simple marijuana possession, calling on governors to do the same. “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” the president said in a statement, adding that imprisoning…
On Tuesday, a Mexican citizen was shot and killed while being held in Border Patrol’s custody, prompting calls for a transparent investigation into the incident. The deadly shooting took place at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in El Paso, officials said in a press release. The incident came a week…
Frisco Police officers tased a man, causing him to fall to the ground and sustain a fatal head injury. The Texas Rangers and Collin County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.
An “outside vendor” may help the Dallas Police Department track the off-duty work of its officers.
When the Bexar County sheriff held a livestream press conference on Monday, he didn’t hold back from letting everyone know he was angry. In fact, he said he was “furious” over a stunt last week that saw dozens of migrants recruited from Texas and shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. On…
While there was some divide in opinion when it came to total bans of assault rifles, a survey by the University of Houston and Texas Southern University found “overwhelming” bipartisan support for more gun control measures in Texas.
To hear the state’s top cop tell it, he backs the blue harder than the blue’s ever been backed. But on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took a different tack. A day after the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced it was investigating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant plane to…
