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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The U.S. Justice Department found Louisville police have engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discrimination against the Black community following an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement Wednesday. A Justice Department report found the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department “engage in …

Dallas police are reviewing about 450 pending capital murder and murder cases to find out if video evidence was permanently deleted. Executive Assistant Chief Albert Martinez told that fewer than 100 cases have been reviewed, but police already found that some videos were not saved to case files and were deleted without being given to lawyers. Here’s what we know so …

Dallas city leaders expressed concern Wednesday after the police department announced it is reviewing evidence in hundreds of murder cases awaiting trial to make sure videos haven’t been deleted by officers. It’s not immediately clear how many court cases will be impacted, police executive assistant chief Albert Martinez told The Dallas Morning News. He said some video evidence was deleted because officers improperly …

Dallas police on Wednesday shared more evidence in the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old woman in Pleasant Grove last year, and they are asking the public’s help in identifying the shooter. Shortly before 11:30 a.m. April 10, someone shot Ja Meesia Anderson-Busby in the 9800 block of Grove Oaks Boulevard, police have said. The shooter ran away following the shooting. On Wednesday, …

Mild weather started off the new work week and it will remain pretty mild on Tuesday. There may be a bit of fog Tuesday morning, but that should give way to a mostly cloudy sky with afternoon temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Rain chances return by Wednesday as a slow-moving front slides into the area. This front will stall …

Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly drug-related shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said. The case has raised concerns among some North Texas families preparing to travel to Mexico, as well as among …

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after he was convicted of capital murder in connection with a fatal shooting during an armed robbery of a Fort Worth grocery store more than five years ago. Marquis Sypho had been accused in the shooting of 26-year-old Raymond Huerta on Jan. 11, 2018, at a Save A Lot grocery store …

A man and a woman were arrested Monday afternoon after they led police on chases near and into Dallas following a traffic stop, according to a KXAS-TV (NBC5) report. Police have not released the names of the pair who were arrested, and it is unclear what criminal charges they face. The chase started about 2 p.m. Monday when officers from …

Proposed legislation could result in harsher penalties for people who cut off their ankle monitors and require notification to law enforcement and other officials when a parolee is allowed to visit a hospital. The bills, announced Monday in Dallas by state and local officials, also would make it a third-degree felony to assault a hospital worker in a hospital. The …

New details have emerged about the woman who was arrested in the stabbing her five children in an Ellis County home, killing three of them and hospitalizing two. The slayings happened Friday after a Child Protective Services investigator decided to remove the children from the home before they were killed, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. Shamaiya Deyonshanaye Hall, 25, of Forney, was …