Two employees of Tarrant County Jail have been indicted for murder in connection with the death of inmate Anthony Johnson Jr., according to a statement from the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office released Friday morning. Detention officers Rafael Moreno, 37, and Lt. Joel Garcia, 48, were each indicted on a murder charge by a grand jury on Tuesday. Johnson’s death, which …

A man is in custody after the slaying of a 22-year-old at his northeast Dallas apartment last week. James Williams Davis(Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) James Williams Davis, 20, of Balch Springs was booked into the Dallas County jail Saturday on a charge of capital murder in connection with the death of Emilio Paez. Police were called about 2:40 a.m. Friday to …

When single mother Lilla Haiddar arrived in the U.S from Afghanistan with her two boys to escape Taliban oppression, she embellished her story in her bid to stay. Nearly 19 years later, she likely will be stripped of her U.S. citizenship due to those lies. A federal jury in Dallas convicted the Arlington woman on Monday of three counts, including …

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  Dallas police found two children and two adults shot to death Tuesday afternoon at a hotel in Far North Dallas, authorities said. Officers were called about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday to the scene of the Staybridge Suites near Keller Springs Road and the Dallas North Tollway, just east of the border between Dallas and the town of Addison. When officers …

WASHINGTON — Beto O’Rourke’s endorsement at a Dallas honky tonk on the eve of Super Tuesday gave Joe Biden a huge jolt in Texas last week. But it also came at a price, associating him with a demand for mandatory buybacks of assault-style weapons that came back to bite him Tuesday, and could haunt him into the fall. As the …

Today will be very warm and humid with a mix of sun and clouds and highs in the 80s. There will be a low chance for isolated thunderstorms much later today, mainly after sunset. Continued warm and dry much of Thursday, but isolated showers or storms will be possible. Rain chances will be higher Friday and Saturday as a cold …

  Continued warm through Thursday with low rain chances. Much of Wednesday and Thursday will be dry, but isolated showers or storms are possible both days. Rain chances will be higher Friday and Saturday as a cold front moves into north Texas. This front will drop high temperatures into the 60s Friday through the weekend. The weather pattern remains unsettled …

Two men were shot in separate incidents overnight, Dallas police said, and one of the victims was hospitalized in critical condition. One of the victims was shot multiple times around 9:10 p.m. Tuesday near Park Row and Colonial avenues in South Dallas. According to police, the victim was shot by a masked man who fled on foot. Nothing was taken …

AUSTIN — Labor activist Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez of Austin has endorsed Dallas state Sen. Royce West against MJ Hegar in the Democratic runoff for U.S. Senate. Tzintzún Ramirez, who had the support of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in last week’s primary, said on Monday that West is the progressives’ best choice in the May 26 runoff because of his “consistent” …

AUSTIN — Nearly a week after this year’s primary elections in Texas, it remains unclear why the secretary of state’s website did not show polling locations for some areas of Denton County for at least half the available voting hours last Tuesday. Rep. Michelle Beckley, D-Carrollton, who won the Democratic primary in the district last week first noticed the issue …