Crime and Courts

In Dallas, police say a tense standoff Thursday night ended with the arrest of a convicted bank robber. He’s accused of going on a cross-county crime spree. The drama in Trinity Groves was captured by neighbors. Maria Guerrero has the details.

Dallas police say a tense standoff Thursday night ended with the arrest of a convicted bank robber accused of going on a cross-county crime spree.

A North Texas man has been arrested in connection with a deadly robbery set up through Facebook Marketplace, according to Seagoville police.

Detectives recovered four Tiffany & Co.
diamond earrings two weeks after a suspected thief from Texas gulped them during his arrest in Florida.

A new state law has eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims.

Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, has been indicted and arrested for capital murder in connection to the 2020 freeway shooting of fellow rapper Mo3. Prosecutors allege Conway hired a gunman in the fatal attack.

Yella Beezy arrested, charged with capital murder in Mo3’s 2020 highway shooting.

The leader and two members of a cultlike group that has been connected to six killings in three states face new gun charges in Maryland.

A Texas House committee has advanced a bill that would ban NDAs in sexual abuse cases, moving it to the House floor for consideration.

A woman who accused a North Texas mega church pastor of sexual abuse testified before state lawmakers about a new bill to protect victims. It’s called “Trey’s Law.” The goal of the bill is to stop the mis-use of non-disclosure agreements regarding sex abuse cases. Sophia Beausoleil explains.

Eugene “Big U” Henley, considered a fugitive, portrayed himself as an anti-gang activist associated with a charity that defrauded celebrities and big-name athletes, authorities say.

A West Virginia couple is set for sentencing for mistreating their adopted children.

Police say a 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in an apparently deliberate hit-and-run of a bicyclist heading to work in Albuquerque.

Two smugglers charged after 53 immigrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning have been found guilty.

The purloined potty has never been recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold.

The Louisiana woman accused of theft and fraud in connection with the death of a Super Bowl reporter near New Orleans last month will also be charged with second-degree murder in the case, authorities said Tuesday.

A federal judge has dismissed the charges against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

An Australian woman narrowly avoided jail on Monday over her plans to sell on the black market two human toes that had been regurgitated by dogs at the animal shelter where she worked. Joanna Kathlyn Kinman, 48, was not present at the animal shelter in the southeastern state of Victoria when the two dogs vomited up the toes and other...

Robert Morris surrendered to officials in Oklahoma, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

Two men, a retired priest and a Catholic school teacher, have been charged with sexually abusing the same child multiple times between 1994 and 1996 when they worked in Wilmington, Delaware.