On Saturday, Dallas Police arrested Christopher Jones, 28, in connection with a shooting at a party on Collins Avenue in Dallas. The incident resulted in the death of a 21-year-old woman and left eight others injured. According to an arrest report, Jones faces charges of Deadly Conduct and possession of Methamphetamine. Preliminary investigations revealed that Jones discharged a firearm into …

Former Highland Park resident John Hinckley Jr. was 25 when he purchased two revolvers for $47 each from Rocky’s Pawn Shop in Dallas on Oct. 13, 1980, with no waiting period or verified background check. Months later he used one of the revolvers in the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan that also wounded three others outside the Washington Hilton in …

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate working group had barely announced its framework agreement for addressing gun violence when hardline Second Amendment defenders slammed the proposal. “Here we go again, Republican legislators compromising your rights and getting nothing in return,” tweeted Gun Owners of America, which bills itself as the “only no compromise gun lobby” in Washington. Former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes denounced the …

WASHINGTON — As part of its crackdown on illegal gun trafficking, the Justice Department said Monday it caught a Dallas man who’d illegally bought and sold nearly a hundred weapons, one of which was used in an Arlington murder last fall. Most came from a single Waxahachie dealer that lost its gun seller license last month. And the buyer, Demontre Antwon …

We’ve got a lot of systems failing at City Hall right now — construction permits and affordable housing, to name two. For people like me, who are paid to stay on top of these issues, for quite a while it’s felt that none of these critical city services are improving — nor that sufficient urgency is even being applied to …

Two paramedics who were in the ambulance when a Black transgender woman became unresponsive in authorities’ care last month have had their credentials temporarily suspended pending an investigation. The woman’s family says her treatment by first responders who handcuffed her, used a spit hood and briefly kneeled on her was inhumane and discriminatory. Body-camera footage released Wednesday shows officers and Dallas …

Among the seven Texans who were among the members of the white supremacist Patriot Front group arrested while trying to disrupt a pride event in Idaho, one hhas a pending felony case in Dallas County and another is a founder of the group, according to court and police records and research by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Authorities in Idaho arrested 31 …

WASHINGTON — Trevor Reed, the Marine veteran and Fort Worth native who spent nearly three years in a Russian gulag after his 2019 arrest, filed a petition with the United Nations on Monday in an attempt to hold Russia accountable for the poor treatment he said he received in prison. According to a press release from Reed family spokesman Jonathan …

An armed man was killed by police officers Monday morning after he fired at least twice inside the Duncanville Fieldhouse during a youth summer camp, officials said. During a news conference, Duncanville Assistant Chief of Police Matthew Stogner said officers responded within minutes of the call for help. No children, camp staff members, counselors or police officers were hurt. Here’s what we …

Dallas officials recommend a new city ordinance that bans residents from feeding wildlife, and carries a fine, as part of a plan to manage coyotes. Dallas Animal Services and the Dallas Park and Recreation Department presented a draft of their coyote management plans to residents at the Lake Highland Recreational Center Monday evening. The plan also calls for a public …

At least a dozen Texas Department of Public Safety troopers waited in the hallway of an elementary school while a gunman was locked inside a classroom with children last month in Uvalde, according to state Sen. Ronald Gutierrez. The San Antonio Express-News reported Monday that Gutierrez was told by DPS Director Steven McCraw in a recent exchange that as many as 13 troopers …