Rodney Reed was convicted of killing a white woman by an all-white jury in 1998.

34-year-old Aaron York Dean is behind bars this evening, hours after he resigned as a member of the Fort Worth Police Department. He’s been charged with murder in the shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home on Saturday. Dean, who had been a member of the Fort Worth Police Department since April 2018 is currently listed as […]

Andre Emmett, Texas Tech University’s all-time leading scorer and former NBA player was shot and killed this morning in Dallas. Join Our Text Club To Get The Latest Music, Entertainment, Contests And Breaking News On Your Phone. Text BOX to 24042 to join! https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1176167868377063426 https://twitter.com/franfraschilla/status/1176169147891429376 Emmett, 37, had just finished his second season playing in the […]

Five people are dead and 21 have been injured following a mass shooting in  Midland-Odessa, Texas, on Saturday afternoon according to authorities. The Odessa Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it was looking for at least one suspect who was “driving around Odessa shooting at random people”. The suspect had apparently hijacked a U.S. mail […]

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Authorities are responding to at least one shooting in Texas Saturday. According to reports, at least 30 people have been shot including one state trooper. At least one person has been reported dead.   The public is urged to avoid Interstate 20 in Odessa, Midland and Big Spring as authorities search for at least two […]

Galveston police are apologizing after a dramatic photo went viral on Monday with two horse-mounted officers leading a handcuffed Black man by what appears to be a rope. https://twitter.com/AdrBell/status/1158496622059433990 A man, 43-year-old Donald Neely was arrested on a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge, was being led by two officers who were on horseback and that they had […]

Former President Barack Obama released a personal statement on Monday condemning “language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders” that “normalizes racist sentiments.” Although the statement did not directly name Donald Trump, the statement comes on the heels of two mass shootings in the country on Saturday, one of which carried out by […]

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The suspect in a deadly mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday was widely identified on the internet as a young white man whose social media activity showed support and sympathy for the president's apparent white nationalist agenda.

Pamela Taylor, the West Virginia official who called First Lady Michelle Obama “an ape in heels” was sentenced to prison after defrauding the government of 18,000 in FEMA disaster benefits following June 2016 floods that claimed lives and delivered significant property damage. Taylor was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 […]

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Joel Fitzgerald, former Mayor Catherine Pugh’s first choice to become Baltimore’s new police commissioner, was fired Monday as police chief for Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth City Manager David Cooke announced his decision to fire Fort Worth Police Chief on Monday. See Also: Joel Fitzgerald Withdraws Name From Consideration As Commissioner Cooke says the change in […]