Dallas County News

Authorities were in a standoff Wednesday afternoon with a suspected murderer at a Lancaster gas station.

Police arrested two men Friday morning in connection with the rape and fatal overdose of a teenage Dallas girl, marking the fourth time that North Texas authorities have accused someone of providing "cheese" heroin that caused a death.

A fleeing driver was struck by a truck while pulling into the intersection of Plano and Buckingham roads on Monday morning.

A San Antonio man accused of killing his wife and one of her co-workers is being held on capital murder charges in Dallas County.

A standoff between Dallas County authorities and a man suspected in a San Antonio double murder has ended.

While pulling into the intersection of Plano Road and Buckingham Road, the fleeing driver in the grey sedan was struck by a truck.

The chase ending when a fleeing suspect wrecked his car will be studied to see if policy changes are needed, Constable Michael Gothard said.

Less than a day after a man led authorities on a 90-minute chase through Dallas County, a woman was stopped this morning after an almost two-hour chase that started in Irving and ended on Buckner Boulevard near White Rock Lake in Dallas.

A high-speed chase along several freeways in the Dallas area ended Monday when the car whose driver was trying to elude authorities ran a red light and was struck by a pickup.

According to a couple of TV stations, a chase involving Dallas County constables ended in a wreck at Plano and Buckingham roads on the border of Richardson and Garland.

Tom Palmer, Mesquite's economic development manager, drives Interstate 30 a few miles into Garland at least once a week.

While serving in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army Reserve, Leon Batie Jr. dodged roadside bombs and scrambled to safety when rockets pierced the night sky.

Following is a list of the 2009 valedictorians and salutatorians for private high schools in Dalla County.

Following is a list of the 2009 valedictorians and salutatorians for publich high schools in Dallas County.

A lot of us probably feared that this would be the case when we read the story yesterday about a Coppell, Texas, woman found drowned in the family pool less than a year after her two children had drowned in it.

County health officials are delivering emergency air conditioners to vulnerable households in preparation for another scorching summer.

The death of an 18-month-old boy whose father said he found the child in their pool Sunday night has been ruled an accident by the medical examiner's office, the Ellis County sheriff's office said today.

The Dallas County medical examiner on Thursday ruled the drowning death of a Coppell woman, whose children drowned in their swimming pool less than a year ago, a suicide.

District 7 Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis trounced challenger Ron Price in Saturday's election runoff to retain her seat, while Delia Jasso will become District 1's new council member in a relatively tighter finish.

The mother of a 9-month-old girl missing since last week told investigators that she and the baby's father tied their daughter's corpse to a sandbag and dumped it into Lewisville Lake, according to an arrest affidavit.