Monday, the Blue Chip Program, which is meant to provide no-cost mental health resources for law enforcement officers, will expand statewide across Texas. North Texas police chiefs and leaders say programs like this can literally save lives. According to leaders with the Blue Chip Program, Texas had the highest number of law enforcement suicides in the nation in 2022. There were …

A Collin County man is among the roughly 800,000 federal government employees feeling the pinch of the partial government shutdown. Since his last day in the office on Dec. 28, Tom Ruiz has spent his time at home with his wife and four kids. But he wouldn’t call it a vacation. “We’re at home, but we’re demoralized,” Ruiz said. “We’re …

A chase that led police through three cities ended when authorities stopped pursuing a blue minivan, and finally arrested the driver when he stopped in the parking lot of Dallas 7-Eleven. Police said the chase started in Garland when the driver, later identified as 47-year-old Stoffon Lorains Cooper, fled from a routine traffic stop around 3 p.m. Garland police pulled …

Dallas police have issued a warrant for a priest accused of sexual abuse who hasn’t been seen for months, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Tuesday. Police issued the arrest warrant Thursday for 70-year-old Rev. Edmundo Paredes, who served at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in the Diocese of Dallas for 27 years. The warrant lists an offense date of July 8, …

Five Fort Worth police officers were fired and two others were suspended Tuesday for failing to call an ambulance for a man who died in custody six months ago. The officers’ attorney said the punishment is extreme and unfair. In a statement, police identified the terminated officers as T. Stephens, D. Pritzker, C. Golden, H. Fellhauer and M. Miller. A sixth …

DALLAS, Texas — The Concord Church in Dallas extended a helping hand to about 100 church members Sunday who are also federal employees and not working as the government remains shut down for the 23rd day. The government was officially shut down on December 22, 2018. The reason why is centered on President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall …

Emergency crews are working a major crash at northbound Interstate 35E at Market Center Boulevard in Dallas. It appears there are about 10 vehicles involved in the crash. The delays are stretching back to Woodall Rodgers Freeway. Traffic reporter Samantha Davies recommends taking westbound I-30 and turning off into either Sylvan Avenue, N. Hampton Road or N. Westmoreland Road to …

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport marked its 45th anniversary Sunday, after its opening on Jan. 13, 1974. The airport, which has grown into one of the nation’s busiest, featured service from 12 carriers when it opened, with 56 gates and three runways. It now has 165 gates and seven runways, according to the airport’s website. DFW Airport now hosts 25 different carriers …

He didn’t have to look at a map to know the way. “It’s the house with a big tree pushing up the concrete,” Jonathan Hein said. The Victoria Advocate reports he leaned forward in his seat, put his nondescript white car into park, grabbed a clipboard from the center console and walked on the uneven concrete to the front door. …

Terrell police are looking for a murder suspect after two men were found dead Saturday less than a mile apart. The victims were both discovered about 6 p.m., one in the 300 block of West Cottage Street and the other in the 700 block of Frazier Street. Both had been shot. Police are looking for 29-year-old Jermichael D. Maxie of Terrell, …

Vittor Strausz Jardim doesn’t remember how his assault happened, but he can’t forget how he felt the Dallas Police Department treated him after he was attacked after a soccer game. After Strausz Jardim left an intense indoor soccer match in late October, a man hit him in the jaw so hard he blacked out, broke his jaw and broke some …