Haltom City News

Despite the defeat of a $183.2 million bond issue last week, Birdville school officials say they will take a tough look at the budget to see how they can still improve campus security and bring new technology to all of its schools.

The city is considering two tax abatements - one for the new owners of a fruit processing business that closed two years ago, and the second for a sporting goods coop that's considering moving its headquarters to North Fort Worth from Haltom City.

On average, a peace officer dies every 57 hours while serving in the line of duty in the United States.

Police officers and their families converged on Fort Worth's Memorial Park Wednesday to remember colleagues who were killed in the line of duty.

A chase involving a stolen truck and Haltom City Police ended Tuesday morning after the truck crashed going the wrong way on I-35 in Fort Worth.

Fort Worth police say they've joined the search for a man and a woman that stole a U-Haul truck.

Cox is being held in El Paso as plans for his transport back to either North Texas or Ohio, where Cox was charged with unlawful sexual contact with a minor earlier this year.

A 14-year-old girl reported missing since last week from the Dallas-Fort Worth area was found Thursday in Juarez, police in the border city said Friday.

Concern is growing for the safety of a missing North Richland Hills girl who was originally believed to be a runaway.

Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Ethnicity: Hispanic Height: 4'11 Weight: 95 lbs. Gender: Female Ruby was last seen with Stephan Andrew Cox, 26 at 3:50 pm on April 24, 2013.

An eight-month-old baby girl remained in grave condition Tuesday at a Fort Worth hospital after investigators say she was injured by her babysitter last week, police said.

Police are looking for 14-year-old Ruby Contreras, who has been missing since she didn't come home from school last Wednesday and may be in the company of a dangerous man.

Birdville school district officials are not always being notified when potential threats to student safety occur near schools after a police-fire dispatch system was launched last year, an official said.

A 41-year-old Fort Worth man was convicted of two counts of murder Friday in the shooting deaths of three men outside a Haltom City gambling house.

The Captain Nathaniel Mills Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host a DAR workshop for DAR members.

A 21-year-old Haltom City woman accused of hurting a child she was baby-sitting was running an unlicensed day-care out of her apartment, a state official said Thursday.

A Haltom City police officer testified Tuesday that he was making a routine traffic stop on Oct.

A Watauga man has been charged with making a terroristic threat after becoming angry that his child was injured at a babysitter's residence.

A man reportedly angry at a babysitter because his child was injured was arrested Monday evening after SWAT officers and a bomb squad descended on an apartment complex on the border of far north Fort Worth and Haltom City.

A SWAT standoff ended Monday night after a man threatened to blow up an apartment complex in Haltom City and locked himself in his car, police said.