Dallas Police responded to a disturbance call at 5850 Beltline Road around 6:45 p.m. on Friday. According to their preliminary investigation, a man had committed aggravated assault involving family violence with a knife. Upon arrival, officers found a woman inside a tent and a man holding a knife beside the tent in a wooded area behind an apartment complex. Despite …

Police in Arlington are investigating after an officer was shot late Friday night, according to police. It happened around 10:00 p.m. near the intersection of W. Randol Mill Rd. and N. Fielder Rd Arlington police said an officer made a traffic stop and the driver pulled into a shopping center on W. Randol Mill Rd. The reason for the traffic …

According to the City of Plano, City Manager Bruce Glasscock notified the City Council of his intent to retire at the end of April, 2019. Glasscock served in the public sector for 50 years, the last 29 with the City of Plano. Glasscock began his career with the City of Plano in 1990 when he was selected Police Chief. In …

Sixteen months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, residents like Tati Morales in the Cercadillo neighborhood of Cayey are still struggling to get reliable access to potable water, phone service and a secure home. “We almost have no lighting in our public roads, risking accidents,” said Morales. “The infrastructure in general is still very weak — many streets in our …

Seven people were taken into custody at a home in Keller on Thursday morning after police executed a search warrant involving an identity theft ring, police said. Officers used breaching devices “that caused the loud bangs some may have heard,” Keller police tweeted. No one was injured during the incident The search warrant was executed about 6 a.m. near Shady …

DENTON, Texas — In the game of soccer, goalies are protectors. That is what Diego Rivera is to his teammates. On Thursday, Diego and his younger brother, Daniel, were honored at a soccer tournament at Guyer High School. The two boys, 17 and 14 years old, were killed in a car crash. On Tuesday night, police say the boys were …

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Verna Bloom, the actress who portrayed the wife of the dean in the movie “Animal House,” has died. She was 80. Family spokesman Mike Kaplan tells The Hollywood Reporter that Bloom died Wednesday in Bar Harbor, Maine, of complications from dementia. In the 1978 John Landis film, Bloom played Marion Wormer, who flirted with and had …

RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — Tarrant County GOP leaders voted Thursday night to keep a vice chairman who is Muslim in his post. Dr. Shahid Shafi, a surgeon and a Southlake City Council member, is a longtime Republican. Following the measure that passed 139 to 49 in a roll call vote, Shafi expressed that this gives him more faith in his …

A California couple is behind bars in Texas after they were caught traveling with a U-Haul trailer full of marijuana, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Texas Troopers stopped the pair as they were traveling east on US-287 near Clarendon for a traffic violation. A DPS drug dog came to the scene and pointed troopers in the …

Former Tarrant County Commissioner Dionne Phillips Bagsby, the first female and first African-American to serve on Tarrant County Commissioners court, died Thursday at age 82. Bagsby had been battling pancreatic cancer since April of 2018 and was surrounded by loved ones and close friends at the time of her passing. Bagsby is considered a community trailblazer and was among the …

While most Americans were celebrating the new year, Jenan Ayesh, a Muslim visiting Dallas with her family from Oklahoma, is happy to be alive after a vicious verbal and physical attack. She may have been targeted because of she is a Muslim. Ayesh and her family visited Dallas to ring in the new year. They went to the observation deck of …