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Families of 737 Max crash victims push to reopen criminal case against Boeing


April 28, 2022

The family members of more than a dozen people who died in 737 Max crashes are pushing a North Texas federal judge to reopen the case against Boeing because the deal with the federal government doesn’t hold the airplane maker accountable. Lawyers for victims’ family members are scheduled in federal court in Fort Worth Tuesday to ask U.S. District Judge …

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These D-FW residents are among dozens whose prison sentences were commuted by President Biden


April 27, 2022

Six Dallas-Fort Worth residents were among the 75 people serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses whose federal prison terms were commuted on Tuesday by President Joe Biden. Biden also pardoned three people — including a Houston woman — marking the first pardons he has given out during his term as president. The White House announced the clemencies Tuesday as it …

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19-year-old man fatally shot in Irving over the weekend, police say


April 27, 2022

Irving police are investigating the Sunday fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man. Around 4 a.m., officers were called to an accident in the 10200 block of North MacArthur Boulevard. Police said they found Devirea Dayshon Smith lying outside a car with a gunshot wound. Smith was taken to Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Grapevine where he was pronounced …

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Supreme Court weighs Texas bid to block Biden from ending Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy


April 27, 2022

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Texas and the Justice Department sparred at the Supreme Court on Tuesday over the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy that keeps many asylum-seeking migrants outside the United States. Twice, President Joe Biden has tried to scrap that policy, implemented in January 2019 under then-president Donald Trump. And twice, Texas and Missouri have stymied him by persuading …

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Perry’s latest ‘oops’ moment: denying text to Trump chief of staff about overturning 2020 defeat


April 27, 2022

WASHINGTON — Newly uncovered text messages to and from former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff show that former Texas Gov. Rick Perry – despite his denials – did, in fact, push a strategy in which key Republican-controlled legislatures would ignore the 2020 election results. CNN obtained more than 2,300 text messages that Mark Meadows sent and received between Election …

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Denton authorities search Clear Creek for possible drowning victim


April 27, 2022

Crews searched Tuesday for a man who possibly drowned in Denton, the city’s fire department said. The man’s wife reported she had last seen him about 12:30 p.m., and authorities began searching for him after a call came in about 15 minutes later, police said. The search involved two drones, a dive team, police and fire personnel. DFD/DPD searching for …

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