Police departments in Fort Worth and Garland may both consider changes in their use-of-force policies following an NBC 5 investigation into the risk of deadly fires when an officer deploys a Taser.

Arlington police officers submitted their written accounts to the department about what took place after Gabriel Olivas poured gasoline over his body while threatening to light himself on fire and burn down his house.

Two horrific scenes, one in Arlington and a second alongside a darkened stretch of road in Oklahoma, forced police officers to make immediate and dangerous life-or-death decisions. In each scene, a man in distress had drenched himself in gasoline and was threatening suicide. The question facing officers, do they use a Taser to disable the person, d...

In the wake of a fatal police shooting that has stoked racial tension throughout the city, the Fort Worth Police Department has decided to stop pairing rookie officers together on patrol shifts, particularly at night, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.

With the government listening in, Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway told developer Ruel Hamilton over the phone that he needed “$6,200 today” to pay his medical bills, according to federal court papers filed on Thursday.

Major management changes at the embattled Trinity River Vision Authority included the removal of its executive director, J.D. Granger, who had headed up the “Panther Island” project since its beginning more than a dozen years ago.

Defense lawyers for accused developer Ruel Hamilton filed federal court papers Thursday saying their client did, indeed, give money to former Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, but that it was a heartfelt gesture – not a bribe.

New Dallas FBI SAC looks to improve threat assessment teams and tackling the challenge of following up on more and more “threat to life” tips.

A former federal agent in North Texas now regrets taking CBD oil, just a dropper full, because he said it wrecked his career in law enforcement.

Newly released documents show Dallas Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway accepted bribes from an undercover FBI agent in 2017 – at a time when the FBI’s investigation into the DCS scandal was just getting underway.

Rick Sorrells, the disgraced former superintendent of Dallas County Schools, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday morning for his role in the corruption scandal that destroyed the 172-year-old school bus agency in November 2017. Judge Barbara Lynn made blistering comments, calling Sorrells’ conduct the worst in the entire ...

Robert Leonard, the businessman at the center of the Dallas County Schools scandal has reported to federal prison.

A second person has pleaded guilty in federal court to a Dallas City Hall corruption case that also involved Carolyn Davis, the former city council member who, along with her daughter, was killed in a traffic accident last week.