The full court bench of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas from being a member of the legislative assembly for contempt. After today’s verdict, Ilyas has ceased to hold the office of the AJK prime minister and the legislative assembly will have to elect a new premier. He has …

The Texas Department of Public Safety last week sent out its second round of letters to notify victims of a scam that targeted thousands of Asian Americans in the state. In February, the department announced at least 3,000 people were affected by the scam, in which fraudsters used data culled from the dark web to order driver’s licenses in Texans’ names. That …

Before he learned he’d be the only name listed in the mayoral race on the May 6 ballot, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson spent nearly $116,000 on his reelection campaign in the first 1½ months of 2023, the most recent campaign finance reports show. The first-term incumbent reported spending most of the cash ahead of the Feb. 17 filing deadline — …

At a rate of more than one killing per day, March marked one of Dallas’ deadliest months in years. The city recorded 34 murders — a single-month death toll not seen in Dallas since October 2020, which reached 35, according to police. Data kept by shows a single week in March accounted for half of the tally, including the death of …

A man is facing multiple manslaughter charges after he sideswiped a car Sunday on Interstate 20 in Grand Prairie, causing a secondary crash, police said. Shortly before 5:30 p.m., a Chrysler eastbound in the 500 block of I-20 lost control and struck a Mercedes passenger vehicle, police said. The Mercedes was “pushed toward the right shoulder” of the highway and crashed …

AUSTIN — Amid a surging fentanyl crisis, the Texas House advanced a bipartisan bill that would decriminalize testing strips that detect the powerful opiate. The legislation is among several bills that seeks to address the rise in fentanyl overdoses. Currently, the testing strips are considered drug paraphernalia in Texas. “Overdose deaths continue to skyrocket as fentanyl comes across the southern border, and …

A fellow Dallas trails fanatic shared a shocking crime statistic as we recently left a Mountain Creek neighborhood meeting: Eight murders occurred last year on or very near the city’s steadily expanding hike-and-bike network. That number couldn’t possibly be right. No way would public safety reporters miss a trend like that. It must be the stuff of Nextdoor exaggeration or social …

Two people died Monday evening after a shooting at a home in Murphy, a city in Collin County, city officials confirmed. A third person who was injured is believed to be responsible for the shooting, Murphy City Manager Mike Castor said. Castor did not provide information related to the three people. It is unclear if the shooter, whose name authorities have …

AUSTIN — Texas would launch a new research institute for mental health and brain diseases, seeding it with $3 billion from the state’s huge surplus, under legislation that advanced in the House on Monday. In November, voters would get a chance to approve a constitutional amendment to create the Mental Health and Brain Research Institute of Texas. Voters also would be asked …

Don’t go to Ranchman’s Ponder Steakhouse anytime soon. I mean, you can. The historic, small-town chicken-fried steak joint reopened March 28. And you probably should go at some point: It’s one of the longest-running restaurants in North Texas, with a catalog of celebrities who have enjoyed its down-home cooking, starting with those fluffy yeast rolls. But don’t go. Not yet. Chicken-fried steak comes in three …