Texas Democratic lawmakers sent a letter of congressional inquiry to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Monday, cautioning public colleges about the potential loss of federal funding if they adhere to Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s recent directive to disregard updated language in Title IX regulations. Title IX, a civil rights law established in 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally …

It’s been just over a year since a 12-year-old girl was attacked while walking to her school bus stop in West Fort Worth. The community stepped up with patrols to protect other children and search for the attacker. He’s now behind bars, and for the first time, the girl is speaking out about what happened to her, and her long road …

A man was shot three times in an apparent road rage incident in Northeast Dallas Friday morning, officials say. According to the Garland Fire Department, they were called to the 11300 block of LBJ Freeway Service Road, near West Kingsley Road, where a man had been shot in an apparent road rage incident. Wintesses at a nearby barbershop told NBC …

Three people were injured when a juvenile carjacker crashed into a northeast Dallas business Friday night. Police were called about 6:15 p.m. to the 5700 block of East Mockingbird Lane, near Greenville Avenue, where the victim said she had found the juvenile in her 2006 Ford Explorer. She confronted the juvenile, which led to “a brief physical altercation,” police said …

Reassurance is coming from Dallas Police Department. They say they’re doing what they can to protect members of the LGBTQ community. They’re investigating several recent attacks on transgender women, in addition to the murder of Muhlaysia Booker last weekend. A town hall meeting Thursday night was planned long before Booker’s death but it definitely helped shape the conversation. The evening …

Two men face up to life in prison after pleading guilty this month to trafficking charges in connection with a human-trafficking ring operating in Fort Worth and Northlake, federal officials say. Joshua Glaze, 30, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to commit sex trafficking through force, fraud or coercion. Faizal Sabar, 34, pleaded guilty to the same charge May 13, according to …

Dallas is better than this Re: “Trans woman found slain — Victim of last month’s video-recorded beating fatally shot on street,” Monday Metro & State story. My heart is heavy as I find myself asking, once again, “What kind of a world are we living in?” Within the past few days, three of my transgendered siblings, all women of color, have …

Salem was found with Michael Webb early Sunday morning. Editor’s note: Due to the horrifying nature of this crime and the fact that the victim is a minor, WFAA will no longer show Salem Sabatka’s picture. Less than 24 hours after she was kidnapped from her mother while taking a walk in their Fort Worth neighborhood, 8-year-old Salem Sabatka is back …

An 8-year-old girl is safe after she was kidnapped while on a walk with her mother Saturday evening in Fort Worth, police say. Fort Worth police tweeted at about 2:27 a.m. Sunday that they had located Salem Sabatka and that the suspect, later identified as 51-year-old Michael Webb, was in custody. Webb now faces a felony charge of aggravated kidnapping. Photo …

Fort Worth leaders and residents Sunday embraced a good Samaritan credited with leading police to a kidnapping victim and the man accused of snatching her from her mother’s arms. Jeff King is a care admissions pastor at Bear Creek Bible Church. King received a hero’s welcome in Fort Worth on Sunday evening. “I feel like God allowed me to be a …

The transgender woman whose April assault in a Dallas parking lot went viral was shot and killed Saturday morning, police say. Dallas police said they found Muhlaysia Booker, 23, dead of an apparent gunshot wound in the 7200 block of Valley Glen Drive around 6:40 a.m. Saturday. Police said they had not made any arrests in connection to Booker’s death …