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An attorney complained about Dallas County Court at Law No. 1 Judge D'Metria Benson's mask mandate in her courtroom. She says it's in place because she has a compromised immune system.

Texas Supreme Court orders Dallas judge to stop requiring masks in her courtroom

Prosecutors say an ICE agent fired into a Minneapolis home occupied by four adults and two children, then falsely claimed he acted in self-defense. He was arrested Friday in Texas.

ICE agent accused of shooting man and filing false report arrested in Texas

Residents and volunteers in Oak Cliff are collecting donations for families displaced after a deadly explosion and fire that killed at least three people.

Oak Cliff community rallies with donations after deadly apartment explosion in Dallas

A prospective buyer of the 23-unit apartment complex had commissioned the soil tests. Preliminary reports indicated that a natural gas pipeline may have been damaged.

Soil testers were drilling before gas explosion and fire leveled Oak Cliff apartment.

The new defendants are charged with hindering the prosecution of terrorism. The indictments make 22 total defendants in the case, spanning federal and state courts.

3 more people accused of helping hide gunman in Prairieland ICE detention center shooting

A national LGBTQ political fundraising committee says U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson’s loss in this week’s Democratic runoff diminishes the community’s representation in Congress.

National PAC says Rep. Julie Johnson's runoff loss means less LGBTQ+ voices in Congress Equality PAC said Johnson’s loss in this week’s Democratic runoff diminishes the community’s representation in Congress. Johnson was the first openly LGBTQ+ person from and from the South elected to federal office.

Religious leaders, community activists and teachers called on Fort Worth ISD to reinstate a Muslim educator reassigned from her newly appointed role as principal after the announcement of her hire drew online backlash. Fort Worth Report

Religious leaders, educators call for reinstatement of Muslim Fort Worth ISD principal Clergy, teachers and activists voiced their opposition to FWISD’s handling of Shayma Alzubi’s reassignment.

A major explosion at an apartment complex in Oak Cliff killed at least three people and hospitalized four others after a major explosion and fire gutted an apartment complex in Oak Cliff. Link to the story in comments.

Diane Bailey died at Parkland Hospital on her birthday nearly two months after she was booked into the Dallas County jail for a class C misdemeanor drug charge.

A woman died in Dallas County jail custody. Her death — and others — were not reported to the state