Crime & Police

Beau Daniel Merryman could go to federal prison for 20 years.

When hackers breached the Houston-based Colonial Pipeline’s cybersecurity defenses in late April, the whole country took a hit. Within days, drivers from Houston to New Hampshire found themselves waiting in line for hours to get gas.The federal government later concluded the country could’ve only lasted another three to five days…

On Friday, journalist Barrett Brown announced he’d been convicted on charges related to a banner he’d held at a London protest.

SB 5 goes into affect on Jan. 18, 2022. Violating the law will be a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500. Repeat offenses could lead to Class B misdemeanor charges.

While companies wait to hear more on the legality of THC isomers like delta- 8, some are stocking their shelves with delta-9 products they say are legal and will get consumers stoned.

The Denton Responsible Reformation of Cannabis Enforcement Act of 2021 would decriminalize misdemeanor amounts of weed in Denton.

Four Caldwell High School students are facing felony charges after they forcibly removed a 14-year-old teammate’s underwear on the school bus, authorities say.

Earlier this month, Dallas police detained a mother and son in their home after they mistook them for burglars.

A 73-year-old man was arrested in Mexico after he was accused of killing a woman in front of her North Texas home.

In November 2017, Amanda Clairmont’s body was found in her car, parked next to a fence in a vacant parking lot along the service road off Interstate 35 in Corinth. Her passenger door was open. Clairmont, a 21-year-old a business major at the University of North Texas, had been shot…

Early Wednesday afternoon, buses carried students down Debbie Lane toward the Mansfield Performing Arts Center in Arlington. Parents rushed to pick up their children, who had just been evacuated from Timberview High School following a shooting that had injured at least four people. Standing alongside her mother, Stephanie, ninth grader…

When around a dozen Dallas County Jail officers gathered on the steps of the Frank Crowley Courthouse Tuesday, they wore street clothes, donned masks and held signs denouncing what they say is a dangerous staffing crisis inside the jail. “What we’ve been seeing recently is people retire, quit or just…

Almost a year ago, former Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall announced the city’s plans to expand Starlight, an initiative that equips local businesses with high-tech surveillance cameras feeding back to the city’s “fusion center.” The program was so successful in driving down crime in those locations, police claimed, they…

On a balmy evening last November in Tyler, Enus Lewis finally came undone. After dark, Lewis left his mother’s house and staggered into oncoming traffic on the busiest road he could find, hoping an oncoming car would kill him. Months of battling a tidal wave of grief had sharpened Lewis’…

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a GOP-backed “bail reform” bill into law, but opponents fear that it could exacerbate inequities.

A North Texas wedding planner was sentenced to federal prison after he used COVID-19 relief funds to purchase cars and pay off his mortgage.

To a great extent, Barrett Brown is fueled by cheap tobacco and vengeance. The embattled journalist wants to inflict as much damage as possible on America, and recently, he’s broadened his scope to include the United Kingdom. There, Brown is attempting to claim asylum, largely because he says he’s been…

Late in summer 2020, a group of families from across the country gathered in Washington to discuss police brutality with then-President Donald Trump. Each family had recently had a son, daughter, parent or spouse killed by law enforcement. Also at the table were representatives from a number of national and…

Federal prosecutors say Jonathan Dean Davis, 43, was able to obtain riches through a Veterans Affairs tuition fraud scheme he started several years ago. His attorneys say the feds have it all wrong.

Jakadrien Turner had survived a lot. In early January 2012, at 15 years old, she made her first appearance on CNN. Turner wore a denim jacket and her blondish-brown curls beneath a dark hat as she walked through the DFW airport with her mother, Johnisa Turner, and grandmother Lorene Turner…

Named for a city in the Bible, Joppa was formed by freed slaves after the Civil War. Residents have always called it Joppee, and some say it’s not the place for 14 new townhomes.

It’s believed that all the files were lost when an employee in the Information and Technology Services Department was migrating data between servers this spring. The files were from archived data prior to July 2020.