On Tuesday, Fox News ran an especially alarming headline about migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Eagle Pass. The way the report put it, locals had started arming themselves, in part, because, according to at least one resident, migrants had “killed pets” in town. The Fox report said that migrants were…
The Dallas Police Department says it’s violent crime reduction plan has decreased “violent street crime” by 12% in the last year.
Texans for Reasonable Solutions brought several experts to testify to the Texas senate about badly needed solutions to the continued Texas housing crisis.
Texan Tamyra Mensah-Stock will again wrestle for gold at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday. Last year, Mensah-Stock, who wrestles in the 68 kg weight division (around 149.9 lbs), became the first African American woman to win a gold medal in wrestling at the Olympics. Not long…
The Lew Sterrett Justice Center’s time in Dallas may be up as the county’s commissioners consider replacing it.
On Oct. 3, 2020, police officer Shaun Lucas shot and killed Jonathan Price in Wolfe City. He’s now on trial for first-degree murder.
Posing for a picture during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, probably wasn’t Nicholas DeCarlo’s best idea, but it likely wasn’t the worst decision he made that day either. Along with Nicholas Ochs, a Honolulu resident and purported leader in the far-right Proud Boys group, North Texas native…
In June last year, Dallas residents submitted some 27,000 complaints about delayed or missed sanitation services. Residents still complain about the services today, but they may start to change in December.
Like they did back in July, Dallas Water Utilities customers were sent fraudulent notices over the phone claiming they needed to pay their bill or service would be disconnected.
The way federal authorities tell it, Jesse Paul Blankenship burned a tattoo off another man’s skin with a metal rod he’d heated with a blowtorch. He also participated in a kidnapping and opened fire on two people in their home. Between 2010 and 2021, federal authorities say, Blankenship had “put…
Dallas County has now received shipments of the new, updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
It’s the latest drag brunch targeted by conservatives and right-wing groups in Texas.
Audit finds shortcomings in how Dallas investigates aggressive and dangerous dogs.
High school-aged young people experienced a 75% week-over-week increase in COVID-19 cases.
Texas Democrats announced that they will make a month-long media tour around Texas to explain what they have done so far during Biden Administration and what they can do if they gain seats in midterm.
Cards Against Humanity is donating 100% of its profits from anti-abortion states to the National Network of Abortion.
Beto O’Rourke came to Denton again in one of the last stops on the Drive for Texas tour.
While watching the vice presidential debate in 2020, history professor Lora Burnett started to tweet from her living room in conservative Collin County. Then-Vice President Mike Pence wouldn’t stop talking when the female moderator had repeatedly and kindly asked. Burnett, who’d been scrolling through her Twitter feed and reading comments…
Dallas’ encampment sweeps have gotten more tense in recent months, with some activists showing up in protest with rifles. The city has a plan to deal with the armed encounters.
In August, local attorney Mark Melton accused a clerk at a Dallas County Justice of the Peace court of forging a notice in his client’s eviction case. Since then, Melton has deposed clerks with the court who claim they didn’t see the notice in question in his client’s file until he came around asking questions about it. The judge and clerk accused of forging the notice completely deny the claims.
Dallas’ home improvement program aims to help homeowners fix up their houses, but progress is very slow and only about 10% of applicants are being helped.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has some Bitcoin and says he’s excited about the future of cryptocurrency.
