As of Wednesday afternoon, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have racked up exactly one conviction in their quest to root out voter fraud in Dallas County. Miguel Hernandez, 28, arrested in July for illegal voting, pleaded guilty to improperly returning a marked ballot,…
We all have that certain little what-the bell that rings in our heads when things don’t add up. What-the bells must have been ringing all over town last week when people saw the news story saying that the new Dallas chief of police, U. Renee Hall, slapped her boyfriend eight…
Less than a month after being released from Tarrant County jail, Tonya Couch is a wanted woman again. Thursday night, Tarrant County authorities arrested Couch after revoking the affluenza mom’s $75,000 bail. Couch, just as she was in March, is accused of failing a urinalysis, violating the portion of her…
People in the Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs area were already on alert from a recent spate of assaults and robberies that hit Dallas’ gayborhood within about a month. Then came Memorial Day weekend. Early in the morning of May 26, a mugger assaulted and tried to rob a man behind the…
McKinney is still having problems with pool parties. This week, the city and Dajerria Becton, the teenager pinned to the ground by a McKinney police officer trying to break up a pool party in 2015, settled a lawsuit that claimed the officer used excessive force. What might have been a…
Four and a half years after she shot unarmed teen Kelvion Walker in the stomach, former Dallas police Senior Corp. Amy Wilburn pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of illegally discharging a firearm. She’ll serve 18 months probation after entering a guilty plea to the lesser of two charges…
Nicole Hall’s was the house her friends could go to when their parents kicked them out. “We became part of her household,” Mieko Hicks, an old friend, said Saturday evening, at a vigil hosted in Hall’s name. Hicks and others began their transitions with Hall, a leader in circle of…
The story had all the hallmarks of a potboiler for the internet age — race, police misconduct, violence against women, Twitter, police cameras. A black North Texas woman accused a white law enforcement officer of sexually assaulting her during an arrest. She hired a civil rights attorney to represent her,…
In the entire incident report chronicling the shooting death of a Dallas police officer and two other nonfatal shootings by a man at a Dallas Home Depot store April 24, the most terrible and heart-stopping line is this: “Body camera footage shows that as Officers [Crystal] Almeida and [Rogelio] Santander…
When somebody picks up a gun and takes it into a crowded area to kill people, the world quickly asks why. This search for answers naturally happens in the public, on Twitter or Facebook, in side conversations, and in news media. The press is here to add meaning to any…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted Armando Juarez, the man suspected of killing Dallas police Officer Rogelio Santander, on a bevy of felony charges related to the shooting of Santander; Santander’s partner, Crystal Almeida; and Home Depot loss prevention officer Scott Painter on April 24. Dallas County will seek…
Friday morning’s shooting at a high school in Santa Fe left eight students and two teachers dead and forced state officials to assume up their usual positions. Another catastrophic act of gun violence had happened in the state, and there were thoughts to think and prayers to pray. Texas Gov…
Authorities found her body floating in White Rock Creek on Saturday evening. She was wearing a black shirt and black scrubs bottoms. At a little over 5 feet tall, the black transgender woman had no tattoos and no marks on her body to identify her. And as of Thursday afternoon,…
Former Richardson Mayor Laura Jordan and her real estate developer husband, Mark Jordan, face federal bribery and corruption charges over a controversial project called Palisades, a mix of retail space, restaurants, office space and apartments under construction along Central Expressway. In 2015, plans for 1,000 apartments in Palisades drew bitter…
Next year, a little less than four years after the Dallas Police Department began issuing body cameras to its officers, all officers in the department will sport the devices as part of their uniforms, Chief U. Renee Hall said Tuesday. “We know that body cameras are a must. Right now,…
Denton County detention officer Jason Inman lost his left eye Monday night when he tried to catch an inmate who ran off during medical treatment. The inmate, Matthew Harmon, required a visit to the hospital. When he and Inman arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Denton, medical staff needed…
Fifty-one individuals are in jail and six others are being sought after a massive federal investigation into methamphetamine distribution and kidnapping by white supremacist prison gangs in North Texas. According to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, federal authorities seized or diverted more than 190 kilograms…
Barely beneath the surface in the city’s grief over last week’s shootings of two Dallas police officers and a store security guard was bleak bitterness left behind by last year’s ugly battle over the police and fire pension system. Sure, we would all be better off if our feelings about…
Kenneth Martin said it was accident. He hadn’t intended to shoot his estranged wife Linda Martin in the face when he walked up to her car as she sat at a red light near the Southlake Town Square. Wednesday afternoon, a Tarrant County jury decided they didn’t believe him and…
A 27-year-old Dallas Police Department officer injured in a shooting in Northeast Dallas Tuesday afternoon has died, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings confirmed during a Dallas City Council meeting. Rogelio Santander died at 8:11 Wednesday morning, Rawlings said. Santander’s partner, 26-year-old Crystal Almeida, remains hospitalized at Texas Presbyterian Hospital on Walnut…
The Dallas Police Department confirmed late Tuesday afternoon that an unknown suspect shot two DPD officers near a the Home Depot at U.S. 75 and Forest Lane. According to the department, both officers are critically wounded. The suspect also shot a third person. That person’s condition is unknown, according to…
News reports after the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and similar school killings often tell inconsistent stories about the number of such cases because of incomplete data, adding to fear and confusion. Nadine Connell, an associate professor of crime at the University of Texas at…
