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Critics say state District Judge Alex Kim is sending too many children to the state’s failing youth prison system. The longtime GOP politician points to a rise in teen gang violence.

DALLAS — It was the first school board meeting of the new year in Grapevine-Colleyville and trustees were set to approve a sweeping set of policies that targeted transgender students’ pronouns, library books and the way teachers could talk about race, gender and sexuality.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jose Gonzalez’s death in March 2020 was sudden. But for his family, the most shocking part of their loved one’s death came on the day of his funeral in California, when they approached the open casket and, inside, saw the wrong body.

Michael Lowe is suing the company in Texas, saying its negligence led to a life-changing ordeal.

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Crystal Mason said she didn't know she was ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot in 2016

FORT WORTH, Texas — A judge ruled Wednesday that the murder trial for the former Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in 2019 will not be moved out of Tarrant County, but it will be delayed for another month.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Shanelle Jenkins learned her husband died by reading the newspaper.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth woman with a form of epilepsy that rendered her unable to communicate effectively was taken to Tarrant County Jail instead of a hospital after a relative called 911 and now is in a coma, her body covered with large bruises that authorities can't…