A man was found fatally shot Sunday night in Plano, and authorities were investigating the death as a homicide. Plano officers found the man outside about 10:15 p.m. in the 4400 block of Longfellow Drive, not far from Coit Road and West Park Boulevard. His name and age have not been released. The shooting appeared to be isolated and there is no known threat to the public, authorities said. No arrests have been made. Police did not release any additional details.
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
A monument was placed in the heart of downtown Dallas in late November, memorializing the spot where Allen Brooks was lynched by a white mob on March 3, 1910. Brooks’ death — captured in a black-and-white souvenir photograph as he hung from a telephone pole, surrounded by a huge crowd of onlookers — was turned into a postcard. A memorial for Santos Rodriguez, the 12-year-old Mexican American boy murdered in 1973 by a Dallas police officer during a Russian roulette-style interrogation, was installed in December overlooking Pike Park, once a community nexus for the nearly gone Little Mexico neighborhood. A ceremony for the…
As of Tuesday, 12,344 Texans were hospitalized with the coronavirus, including more than 4,000 in North Texas, according to state data. North Texas is poised to break hospitalization records, and Dallas County — which is on the threshold of 500,000 total COVID-19 cases — is expected to report four days of COVID-19 data Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know about the COVID-19 in North Texas for today: The region’s total was 4,110 COVID-19 hospitalizations Tuesday — just a few dozen patients from its January 2021 peak. The site, which allows every household to request four rapid COVID-19 tests, was originally scheduled…
WASHINGTON – The White House said Tuesday that the British man who held hostages at a Colleyville synagogue entered the United States without trouble because U.S. terrorism databases had no red flag, even though he’d been investigated by Britain’s MI5 security service as a potential terrorist. Hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram, 44, was on MI5′s watch list as a “subject of interest” in 2020 and was investigated that year, the BBC reported. British authorities never shared any suspicions that would have landed him on an American no-fly list, a U.S. official said, probably because the investigation resulted in no finding that he…
The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Texas is set to surpass the area’s all-time high as the highly-contagious omicron variant spreads across the community. At least 290 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Texas in the last 24 hours, bringing the region’s total to 4,110, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council reported. COVID-19 hospitalizations in the area reached the highest peak of 4,172 during the January 2021 surge, according to Texas Department of State Health Services data. While omicron case numbers may be starting to crest and decline in other parts of the U.S., North Texas has…
Temperatures climbed into the 70s Tuesday, but a strong cold front will bring in sharply colder air for the rest of the work week. The next blast of cold will begin to arrive Wednesday. A cold front will drop down into North Texas in the morning, knocking afternoon temperatures down into the 40s and 50s. A gusty north wind of 15 to 25 mph will make it feel even colder. A reinforcement of much colder air is expected to arrive Thursday with sub-freezing temperatures in the morning and again by nightfall. There’s a slight chance for a rain/snow mixture Thursday…
Todd Smith, a top political consultant to Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, was indicted Tuesday on felony charges of theft and commercial bribery related to taking money in exchange for state hemp licenses that are doled out through Miller’s office, according to Travis County district attorney José Garza. Smith was arrested in May, accused of taking $55,000 as part of the scheme, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Smith and others were accused of soliciting up to $150,000 to get an “exclusive” hemp license from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Smith allegedly said $25,000 would be used for a public poll…
Dallas County reported 48 more COVID-19 deaths and 20,145 new coronavirus cases in the past week. The county has broken its record for single-day case totals three times over the last two weeks, signaling the continuing spread of the omicron variant. The county’s single-day total was last broken on Friday, when 8,483 new cases were reported. The region, meanwhile, has continued to scramble to meet the increasing demand for COVID-19 tests amid the current case surge. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Tuesday that it was opening a temporary pop-up testing site in Arlington to meet the demand. However, there will be some…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — At least one person is dead and another victim is injured following a shooting in northwest Houston. Officers responded to the scene Tuesday afternoon at a Whataburger parking lot at 13200 Northwest Freeway. At the scene, officers found a man had been shot to death. While investigating the scene, officers learned that another man with a gunshot wound went to a nearby hospital. According to police, an altercation took place before shots were fired between the men. A third person involved in the incident has been detained. Police were still investigating and trying to work out…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One of the four people charged with murder in the September 2020 killing of 20-year-old Sierra Rhodd in the Cypress area has been released on bond. Court records show Xavier Fletcher posted bonds totaling $105,000 on Jan. 11. Documents state $75,000 was for the murder charge he is facing in Rhodd’s death. The remaining $30,000 was for an aggravated assault with deadly weapon charge in an unrelated case. According to records, Fletcher is accused of assaulting another inmate with a broom. Fletcher, along with three other people, was arrested in October 2020, with an original bond of…
