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Another man has died while in Tarrant County Jail custody, marking one of several jail deaths this year. Jose Orozco, 37, was pronounced dead at John Peter Smith Hospital Tuesday at 12:11 p.m., according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office website. Court records show ...
Four Tarrant County women say the Tarrant County Commissioners Court Decorum Policy violates people's civil rights, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday. The suit against Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare and the county was filed by residents Reed Bilz, Katherine Godby, Eliz...
Leaders from across Texas will gather in Fort Worth this week to promote the state’s Black-owned businesses. The Texas Association of African American Chambers of Commerce will hold its 2026 annual conference Sept. 23-25 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Fort Worth South Hotel & Confer...
Newly filed paperwork in Kerr County details a Texas Rangers investigation into Camp Mystic and seeks phone and data records connected to the Eastland family. The search warrant affidavit said the Texas Rangers investigating the case believed Camp Mystic LLC committed manslaughte...
Arlington Police are investigating the theft of two vehicles that their owners say was a very strange crime carried out with precision and caution. According to the owners of both vehicles, a Toyota and a Lexus, the alarms never went off, the thieves managed to start the cars qui...
Texas lawmakers spent Tuesday discussing hotel occupancy taxes and whether the decades-old HOT programs are functioning as intended. That same day, the City of Dallas discussed in a Finance Committee meeting just how essential those revenues are in financing its new convention ce...
A couple and their daughter are on trial in Sherman facing federal charges stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme that prosecutors said brought in about $9.1 million from roughly 100 victims. Marina Brooks, her husband Charles Brooks and their daughter, Crystal Brooks, ...
They say the campus visit is the biggest factor in where kids go to school. As a seventh grader, Bezan Morris got to tag along when an older brother visited the U.S. Naval Academy on a college tour. “We got in the car after the visit, and we were heading home,” Morris remembered....
The city of Fort Worth and the union representing its firefighters have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that calls for pay raises and other provisions. The preliminary agreement calls for a 5% across-the-board raise for firefighters and EMS employees, plus annual ...
Marine veteran Tim Hatcher still remembers the initial motto that propelled him and a group of veterans to serve and honor wounded and disabled North Texas service members. “We might not be able to change your life, but we’ll help your life suck less for a little bit,” Hatcher sa...
Pride Kel-So is being rescheduled to April after Southlake City Council unanimously denied the LGBTQ+ festival’s permit last Tuesday. The festival’s original Oct. 3 date will now pivot into a block party at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church capped at 999 attendees as that...
Plano police are without a tool the department's chief said helped officers track vehicles and suspects after the city's Flock license plate reader system went offline this month. Plano's 90 Flock cameras were paid for through a state grant at a cost of about $300,000 per year. B...
A DeSoto mother is searching for answers after she said her 9-year-old son with autism left Meadows Elementary on a school bus he was never supposed to ride. DeSoto police said the school district is conducting an internal investigation. No criminal charges have been filed. Tatum...
A Texas district court judge dismissed a legal petition seeking Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare’s removal from office, less than two weeks after it was filed in court. Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam filed the petition Sept. 9, alleging official misconduct or incompetency by O’H...
The death of a man in Tarrant County Jail custody in April was ruled an accident caused by drug toxicity, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office ruled. John Barr, 36, died April 19 at John Peter Smith Hospital after he was found unresponsive is his cell. Barr's death was li...
After more than two months without rain, Sunday night’s storms were a welcome sight across North Texas. But for some families in Celina and Prosper, the long-awaited rain quickly turned devastating. The rain began just before 9 p.m. Sunday, soaking dry grass and drawing neighbors...
A Fort Worth woman said she feels fortunate to be alive after a driver struck her in a parking lot over the weekend, leaving her with two broken legs, a collapsed lung and a broken rib. Fort Worth police identified the driver as 22-year-old Yoriel Cabrera. He was arrested on char...
On the 43-acre campus of EnterHealth Ranch in Van Alstyne, thousands of people have found sobriety through a mix of medication, counseling, functional wellness, nutrition and even brain stimulation therapy. Now, doctors here are adding a new tool to that list: GLP-1 medications, ...
Plano has disabled over 90 Flock cameras after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop funding AI-powered license plate readers, officials said. For the time being, the city will not seek alternative funding for the technology, which police Chief Ed Drain called a “game-c...
A collaboration between the Fort Worth Police Department and the University of Texas at Arlington is utilizing virtual reality and artificial intelligence to enhance de-escalation training for police officers. Through a Department of Justice grant called the Virtual Reality De-es...
Republican incumbent state Rep. David Lowe and Democratic political newcomer Yisak Worku will face off in the Texas House District 91 race in the Nov. 3 election. Lowe beat out Kyle Morris in the Republican primary earlier this year. Worku ran unopposed. Lowe was elected to the s...
One person was shot by a federal Immigration Enforcement Officer in Austin on Sunday, according to the Austin Police Department. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said this shooting comes after an increase in detentions by ICE in Austin. "It is awful that this horror has come to our doors...
Two men are dead and two others are injured after a fight led to a shooting at a backyard gathering early Sunday morning. According to Fort Worth Police, at about 3:32 a.m., officers arrived at the 4300 block of Martin St. after reports of a shooting. Officers learned there was a...
Heather Dianne Crow, 50, passed away Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. Memorial Service: 12 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, in Independence Chapel at Greenwood Mausoleum, 3210 White Settlement Rd., Fort Worth 76107. Inurnment to follow at Greenwood Memorial Park, 3100 White Settlement Rd., ...
Republican incumbent state Rep. David Lowe and Democratic political newcomer Yisak Worku will face off in the Texas House District 91 race in the Nov. 3 election. Lowe beat out Kyle Morris in the Republican primary earlier this year. Worku ran unopposed. Lowe was elected to the s...
One person was shot by a federal Immigration Enforcement Officer in Austin on Sunday, according to the Austin Police Department. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said this shooting comes after an increase in detentions by ICE in Austin. "It is awful that this horror has come to our doors...
Filmmaker Zach Cregger is a fan of the “Resident Evil” video game franchise, but not so much of the previous seven films…and it shows. Watching this new masterpiece of horror is, at times, like chilling while watching a friend play the third-person perspective shooter. After a me...
“Legend” isn’t a distinction to be thrown around much, but when it comes to Fort Worth music, blues in particular — and accounting for all the history in that genre dating to Robert Ealey, Blue Bird Café, and earlier — James “Gut-tar” Hinkle is a living legend. The blues singer-s...
A little orange ball has taken Myles Turner around the world. It’s bounced him from Bedford to the University of Texas at Austin, through a decade with the Indiana Pacers and now to the Milwaukee Bucks. But Turner told Hurst-Euless-Bedford trustees that basketball has always brou...
In Colby Ayers’ 20 years of bird watching at the Village Creek Drying Beds, he said he’s never seen water levels as low as this summer. When he last visited, Ayers noticed the drying beds were heavily vegetated, with the ponds almost completely dry, he said. Like Ayers, birders a...
The father of Austin Metcalf is speaking out after a Kansas City woman was arrested on federal charges for allegedly threatening him and his family. Jeff Metcalf says he's dealt with threats for months and hopes the arrest sends an important message. “Even today I had one, so for...
At Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the family of Lisa Marie Martinez is preparing to say goodbye three weeks after she was critically injured while riding her bicycle through Oak Cliff. The difficult moment comes as Dallas police announce an arrest in the hit-and-run crash that ...
Two former Longhorn football players returned to Texas last weekend to play in a venue that enjoys legendary status within their athletic program. “It's a beautiful field. It's a huge field, and obviously knowing the history of the Texas/OU game, I think it just meant a lot for b...
For photographer Coyia Malone, getting access to the NBA Finals was something of a dream and a reminder of the importance of having someone drop your name when you’re not in the room. Malone, a photographer and videographer from Cleburne, had been practicing photography for about...
Arlington police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of a 56-year-old man on Thursday night, police said. According to police, on Sept. 17 at 10:44 p.m., officers were dispatched to a home in the 1700 block of W. Lovers Lane in reference to a...
After a little over three weeks of blazing, the Ross Fire, which at its peak was recorded to have raged across about 90,400 acres of North Texas, is now fully contained. Officials are still assessing the full extent of the fire’s damage, but say the blaze could have varying effec...
A local activist who was arrested last month after cursing during a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting won't get another court hearing until November. EJ Carrion, 37, was charged with disrupting a meeting, a Class B misdemeanor and hindering proceedings by disorderly cond...
A new dispute is threatening to hold up an $11.25 million settlement between the City of Fort Worth and Atatiana Jefferson's estate. The estate of Marquis Jefferson, who died just weeks after Atatiana, is now asking for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud in Atatiana's pr...
Three homes have erupted in flames within about a month in and around Dallas’ South Boulevard-Park Row Historic District, putting neighbors on edge as investigators work to determine what caused the fires. “I think there's lots of theories going around of is it an arsonist? Is it...
Garland police are warning that scammers are using artificial intelligence to create more convincing emails, images, videos and even voices to trick victims into handing over personal information or money. Officer Matthew Pesta with the Garland Police Department said he has recei...
The average Arlington homeowner can expect to see their property tax bill decrease, but will see some of their other bills go up. Council members gave their second and final vote of approval to Arlington’s $876 million budget and tax rate Tuesday night. The city will finish with ...
Aiden Craig grew up playing sports in Wylie and putting everything he had into competition. That drive eventually led the Wylie Pirate to pursue another challenge — becoming a Marine. "He was always an athlete, grew up playing every sport, was good at every sport," said Aiden's f...
First responders and hospital staff filled the hallway at Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas Thursday morning, anxiously awaiting a special guest: 4-month-old Kenji Kammerer. The baby and his parents, Ian Kammerer and his wife, Lindsey, would walk the halls one final time...
After burning for nearly a month, the Texas A&M Forest Service says the Ross Fire near Possum Kingdom Lake is now 100% contained. On Aug. 24, the fire started under elevated fire conditions in Palo Pinto County and within an hour grew to five alarms. The flames quickly devoured d...
I never played any of the Resident Evil video games, but I did watch every single one of the movies, including the justly maligned 2021 attempted reboot Welcome to Raccoon City. I find that I remember only two things from the entire series: the red dress that Milla Jovovich frequ...
It’s past time that I wrote about Shaun the Sheep, don’t you think? The adorable and highly tech-savvy sheep made his debut in Nick Park’s Oscar-winning 1995 stop-motion short film A Close Shave and has since embarked on a successful solo career. He has been absent from the big s...
Fort Worth has continued to take steps to address housing affordability even as staff turnover and lack of funding have slowed implementation of its plans. Presenting at a Community Development Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon, the Fort Worth Neighborhood Services Department s...
A man who died in Tarrant County Jail custody in June had complications of a rare brain disorder that led to his death by natural causes, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed Wednesday. Mack Greer, 46, was pronounced dead June 18 at John Peter Smith Hospital afte...
Republican incumbent and southwest Tarrant County lawmaker John McQueeney and Democrat Beth Llewellyn McLaughlin will appear on the ballot Nov. 3 in the race for Texas House District 97. If elected, McQueeney would serve his second term. The election marks the second time McLaugh...
OPENING Behuli (NR) This Nepalese film stars Paras Bam Thakuri, Divya Rayamajhi, Sushant Karki, Padam Tamang, Santosh Baniya, and Sarita Giri. (Opens Friday) Daayra (NR) Kareena Kapoor stars in this crime thriller as a cop caught up in a case involving a young girl’s death. Also ...
A nonprofit that's trained generations of young Fort Worth athletes is facing a major setback after a fire destroyed equipment worth thousands. As Hallmark Youth Association’s football season gets underway, president Newtown Braziel says they’re working to rebuild the property th...
Lonamania Strikes Back After sheriff’s deputies forcibly hauled him out of a recent commissioners court meeting like the heel in a Battle Royale, former state representative Lon Burnam is calling for the removal of County Judge Tim O’Hare from his role as head of the commission. ...
Plano police and retail loss prevention officers are teaming up to catch suspected shoplifters in the act as part of a coordinated crackdown on retail crime across North Texas. The operation put officers near major Plano retailers, including Walmart, Home Depot, Sephora and H-E-B...
Former members of a local church are raising concerns about a former pastor and Denton barbershop owner who is accused of secretly recording an employee inside a restroom. Denton police said there is no evidence of additional victims at this time, although the case remains open. ...
A Dallas personal trainer is helping people with life-changing injuries rebuild their strength and mobility through adaptive fitness — while giving them something they say is just as important: hope. Brandon Miller specializes in personalized strength and mobility training for cl...
The Dallas City Council has approved the largest budget in the city’s history, totaling $5.66 billion. The budget passed in a 10-5 vote after a debate that lasted much of the day. After an all-day discussion and several amendments, the budget was approved on Wednesday night. Dall...
Veteran radio personality Jason Walker died on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026 in Arlington after suffering a heart attack, a stroke, after falling off a bar stool, after getting run over by a steamroller, after passing several kidney stones while having a root canal, etc. He was 75 years ...
When money is tight at home, you may think about direct expenses like food and gas. A North Texas woman said she wants more neighbors to know about affordability decisions happening at City Hall with your money. ‘People depend on those doors being open' Earlier this year, Nohelli...
Summer is over but a North Texas non-profit is already thinking about how to keep campers safe next year. Safe Summer's Foundation is made up of a coalition of Heaven's 27 Parents whose goal is to protect other families. "This mission was born out of the unimaginable grief from p...
Five weeks after revealing a $5.66 billion budget, Dallas City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert said Wednesday it represents the city’s continued commitment to increase funding for police and fire while adding to the total number of miles set for street repairs. “We have streamline...
