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Dallas could start fining people up to $500 for standing or walking in city streets asking for money or food. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal next Wednesday that would ban pedestrians from being on traffic medians that are less than 6 feet wide, in a road without medians or in other areas of the street such …

Dallas police are asking for the public’s help identifying the body of a woman who was found in a lake in the Stemmons Corridor this month. Dallas police released a sketch Tuesday of the woman, who was found about 11:30 a.m. April 8 near the 9400 block of North Stemmons Freeway, near Regal Row. Police also released three sketches of …

Frederick Levoyd Dixon, 53, was arrested Thursday in the death of 40-year-old Calvin Johnson, who was shot to death April 10. Police were called to an apartment complex in the 3500 block of South Polk Street shortly before 4:45 p.m. and found Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. He was taken to a hospital and later died, the …

A Mississippi man was arrested this month in Alabama in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in Arlington in March. Uthian Sewayne Kimble, 22, was arrested April 8 in Florence, Ala., on a charge of injury to a child. A murder charge was added Thursday, Arlington police said. It’s unclear whether Kimble has an attorney. Around 6:30 p.m. March 18, officers …

For many children, the biggest obstacle to after-school programs is safe, reliable transportation. That’s about to change for some Tarrant County kids. Bridgestone Retail Operations, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, surprised the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County on Tuesday with a new van. Children check out a new passenger van at the Boys & Girls Clubs of …

Former North Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, best known for her 13-hour filibuster against an abortion bill in 2013, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday over Senate Bill 8, contending the restrictions that went into effect on Sept. 1 banning abortions after six weeks are unconstitutional. The lawsuit argues that the law violates the plaintiff’s due process and free speech and asks the court …

Former Balch Springs police Officer Roy Oliver, who was convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed 15-year-old Black boy in 2017, can be sued by the victim’s family, a panel of federal appellate judges decided Tuesday. Oliver argued in court filings that he shouldn’t be sued because he was entitled to qualified immunity, which protects government employees from litigation for doing …

A fast-moving disturbance is passing by to our north this morning. It has resulted in some brief light showers in parts of North Texas. The overall chance of rain, however, will be limited and move out quickly. The clouds will stick around for much of the morning before mainly sunny skies by afternoon. The wind will be quite strong from …

Note: This Watchdog report was originally published on May 25, 2017. We share it again because property appraisal season is once again upon us, but in this year, 2022, appraisals are skyrocketing. Learn about this and more at The Watchdog’s 5th annual Property Tax Protest free webinar at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, 2022. Sign up for the webinar here. …

Residents of a far northeast Dallas apartment building were displaced from their homes late Tuesday after a fire engulfed the three-story structure, officials said. More than 60 firefighters responded to the fire just before 10 p.m. at the Forest Hills Apartments, in the 9600 block of Forest Lane, near Interstate 635. The 24-unit apartment building had heavy flames billowing from …