Dallas Doctor Gets Life In Prison for Maiming Patients

Christopher Duntsch, the Dallas doctor convicted last week of paralyzing an elderly patient during a botched 2012 surgery, is going to prison for life. A Dallas County jury took a little more than an hour to sentence him Monday afternoon. Duntsch, 45, was stripped of his medical license in 2013 following…

Man Who Helped Plan ISIS Terrorist Attack In Garland Gets 30 Years

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, the Phoenix man who helped plan and supplied guns for the 2015 attack on a Muhammad-themed art contest in Garland, is going to federal prison for 30 years, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton decided Wednesday. Kareem, 44, became the first person convicted by a United States jury…

Gov. Abbott: ‘This Is the Session We Will Ban Sanctuary Cities’

Tuesday morning, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott laid out his agenda for the 2017 Texas legislative session in his second state of the state address. Abbott named four emergency items, the issues he’s directed the legislature to take up early in the session. Before the legislature does anything else, Abbott said,…

Dallas Police Arrest Husband in Fatal Family Stabbing

Just after 1:30 a.m. Monday, Dallas police responded to a stabbing in the 12800 block of Jupiter Road in Northeast Dallas. Two people, Susan Pinkney, 41, and Shamille Pinkney, 18, had been stabbed. Both victims were taken to Dallas’ Presbyterian Hospital. Shamille Pinkney, Susan’s daughter, died from her injuries. Monday afternoon Dallas police…

DPD Officers Fatally Shoot Woman Fleeing in Vehicle

Two Dallas Police officers responded to a suspicious person call Wednesday morning at the apartment complex at 4700 Eastside Ave., identified by Google Maps as the Five Trees, and ended up fatally shooting a woman as she tried to flee the scene in a stolen vehicle.

Video: South Dallas Woman Runs Down Man After Domestic Dispute

On Saturday afternoon, a white SUV plowed into Sherron Berry, 36, on a Martin Luther King Boulevard sidewalk in South Dallas. Police arriving on the scene a little after 12:30 p.m. quickly discovered from witnesses that the deadly collision was no accident, as video from the scene would make clear. The…

Dallas Police Release Video of Cathedral of Hope Graffiti Suspect

A little more than a week after the Cathedral of Hope’s Interfaith Peace Chapel was defaced with bizarre graffiti, the Dallas Police Department released video of the man it believes did the spray painting. The graffiti, discovered the morning of Jan. 5, according to the church, features the phrase “kitty porn,”…

Interim Police Chief Blames Low Murder Clearance Rate on Witnesses

Dallas’ final crime numbers for 2016 are out and while crime remains historically low, Dallas’ murder clearance rate for the year, as reported by the Observer last month, took a dip last year to well below the department’s three-year average. Monday morning, interim Dallas Police Chief David Pughes told the Dallas…