A judge sentenced several Mexican cartel operatives living in the U.S. illegally to prison for a failed kidnapping that turned into a rolling gun battle in North Texas. The gunmen used automatic AK-47s and AR-15s to shoot at police in their effort to escape custody.
Two prominent north Texas Democrats are sounding the alarm on the threat of a politically-uncommon concern: voter fraud.
A previously deported illegal immigrant has been arrested for the murder of an unidentified Hispanic man who was found on a street.
Sixty mayors from around the country on Tuesday held press conferences and other events to show their support for immigrants both legal and illegal.
Those attending the Dallas Stars hockey game on Monday night got a huge surprise when a former Navy SEAL repelled himself and a service dog down from the top of the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The Stars were honoring war veterans and “Patty”, the German Shepherd, was a gift for a wounded veteran.
A six-month-old boy died in Dallas this week after he fell and was knocked unconscious. His babysitter was unable to reach 911 due to a T-Mobile error causing a backlog of emergency services calls.
Pro-refugee marchers of the ACLU, the local United Nations Association, and other open border groups were countered by armed, Second Amendment advocate Trump supporters at a demonstration in Dallas during the weekend.
A new hotel concept from the Trump Organization will launch nationwide in Dallas. The innovative four-star lodging may be the first of its kind in the United States and it will not bear the signature brand namesake but instead be called Scion.
A Texas middle school teacher is fighting to keep her job after word spread that she was an adult film actress in at least 16 productions more than a decade ago.
A Dallas public school teacher was filmed in her classroom mockingly shooting President Donald Trump as a live feed was projected of his inauguration ceremony.
A man living in El Paso has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges where he helped smuggle marijuana for the Velasco Criminal Enterprise (VCE), a family-run operation out of Texas.
The 14-year-old daughter of a police officer executed at the July 7 Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas was notified by Southern Methodist University that she would not be able to serve an honorary serve in her father’s memory. SMU told her and her mother “that the demonstration could be deemed insensitive.”
Young protesters, unhappy with the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election, stormed downtown Dallas Wednesday night.
The father of one of the officers executed in Dallas in July at a Black Lives Matter protest filed a lawsuit on Monday against Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and others charging that they inflamed and inspired a “War on Police.”
A minor victim and nine pimps were arrested last week in north Texas. The arrests were made as part of an international effort by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to focus on underage human trafficking.
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court on Sunday opened the door for construction to resume on a small stretch of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline while it considers an appeal by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
A Texas judge likened a black Dallas Police Sergeant to a clueless slave in response to the cop’s lawsuit against Black Lives Matter and its high-profile supporters.
A reported 100 demonstrators showed up for a Dallas Black Lives Matter solidarity march Thursday night. Despite a few tense moments, the protest remained tame. Dallas police made no arrests.
ASSOCIATED PRESS — More than a dozen students on a Dallas-area volleyball team in a predominantly black school district took a knee as the national anthem played before a match.
The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.
The U.S. government moved on Friday to halt a controversial oil pipeline project in North Dakota that has angered Native Americans, blocking construction on federal land and asking the company behind the project to suspend work nearby.
Amid violent protests and vandalism from a presidential candidate, a Native American tribe has lost a court battle to block the construction of a new energy pipeline.
Texas State Fair icon Big Tex will be sporting some updated western wear that pays tribute to the recently fallen and injured Dallas area police.
ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Dakota authorities are recruiting law enforcement officers from across the state to guard the site of a protest in anticipation of an impending federal ruling on whether to block the construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline.
The Green Party Presidential Nominee faces criminal charges after allegedly vandalizing construction equipment at an energy pipeline site with hundreds of other protesters.
A longstanding protest against a Texas-based energy company’s plan to build a pipeline near tribal lands in North Dakota turned violent against construction crews and a limited security team over the Labor Day weekend.
Various videos and local reports have confirmed that “hundreds” of Native American protesters and supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux turned violent at a construction site under the management of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners near Cannon Ball, ND. The Associated Press reported that four private security guards and two dogs were injured in the incident as a result, according to the Morton County Sherriff’s Office. Though protesters have asserted through a variety of mediums that they were the ones first attacked, many of their own videos purport to show the opposite occurred.
As violence continues to occur in and around Black Lives Matter demonstrations, one cyber security intelligence firm argues that America is witnessing an unmistakable trend of further radicalization within the leftist grassroots movement.
In light of recent executions of police officers in downtown Dallas, the state of Texas now leads the country in “law enforcement officers feloniously killed”, according to a national nonprofit that tracks such cases for 2016.
A leading Dallas police officers association will be able to provide substantial financial support to the families that lost loved ones during the Black Lives Matter protest in early July with the help of a veteran-founded apparel company.
Only weeks after the executions of five Dallas area police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest, local social justice activists are set to continue demonstrations against “police brutality” in memory “of those who have fallen”.
In the wake of recent police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, rapper and actor Ice Cube says he will continue to perform his song “F*ck the Police” at concerts.
The president of a leading organization dedicated to supporting the families of North Texas first responders suffering death and grave injury on duty offered only three words for Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell after his social media post depicting a police officer getting his throat cut went viral: I forgive you.
Yafeuh Balogun, the co-founder of a radical black gun club that espouses Black Panther ideology, says he is not surprised by the deadly shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday.
In its worst moments — such as the one we are enduring now — Black Lives Matter has inspired violence, terrorized police, driven up crime, and divided Americans. Still, the experience has produced three basic lessons — and raised one lingering question.
All times CDT. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will be addressing the assembled police officers, family members and dignitaries gathered to pay tribute to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Brent Thompson and Dallas Police Department Officers Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, Corporal Lorne Ahrens, and Sergeant Michael Smith.
Donald Trump is slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa, which went for President Barack Obama by 5.6 points in 2012.
President Barack Obama told a gathering of law enforcement officials on Monday that he was critical to their efforts to reconcile with the black community: “I’m your best hope,” he declared, according to a police official quoted by the Washington Post.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) deliberately allowed a Black Lives Matter protest to stage an illegal protest on Sunday night, disrupting traffic on the Interstate 405 and taking over intersections in the predominantly black neighborhood of Inglewood.
President Barack Obama is trying to muffle the politically dangerous opposition from police groups to his support for the radical and violent Black Lives Movement — but he’s also insisting to cops that their careers, colleagues and police forces are ‘institutionally racist.’
In fact, the murder rate has spiked in Dallas by almost 90 percent during the first five months of 2016, putting the city on track to exceed local murder rates at the end of President George Bush’s tenure. The Dallas increase adds up to roughly 100 additional dead Americans in 2016 — including many African-Americans — compared to 2014, the year Obama began his campaign-trail demand for changed police practices and policies.
