The federal government on Friday established the National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency (NCCIA), rendering the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cybercrime Wing as “defunct”. A day ago, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had announced that the government was forming a separate authority to “safeguard the digital rights of people” and “counter propaganda and rumours on social media”. “There must be an end to harassment, including online,” he had said, calling for a specific authority to address the issue of online harassment as at present there is no law to protect the digital rights of consumers. The federal cabinet under the caretaker government had approved the…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
A 3-year-old girl injured in a drive-by shooting in Fort Worth that hurt five others on Wednesday night has lost a kidney, her family says. The child was one of six people between the ages of 3 and 19 who were shot while sitting outside a West Fort Worth apartment Wednesday night. Five of the victims were hospitalized and one refused treatment. The shooter has not been identified; however, police confirmed the gunman was traveling in a vehicle headed southbound on Las Vegas Trail as they opened fire. Fort Worth police said the gunman’s vehicle was seen driving by the…
Texas Instruments is known for its computers and semiconductors. You probably don’t think of movies when you think of the longtime Dallas-based business, but the company’s DLP (Digital Light Projection) technology helped change movie-going. “This is the digital cinema DMD,” DLP Cinema Senior Systems Architect Tim Ryan said holding a small square chip. “A Digital Micromirror Device.” The technology developed 25 years ago at Texas Instruments DLP takes light projected onto the chip packed with tiny mirrors, and reflects brighter, crisper images. It helped take movies from film to digital. “The very first movie that was shown digitally was Star…
Jerry Don Elders, a man convicted of murdering 61-year-old Robin Waddell while on the run from police back in 2021, has been sentenced to death. A Johnson County jury found Elders guilty of capital murder last week and had been considering his punishment during the sentencing phase of the trial this week. With a capital murder conviction, Elders faced either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. Jurors on Thursday answered two questions that decided his punishment of death by lethal injection. The date of execution has not yet been set. After the sentence was read, the…
A large crowd of Palestinian protesters filled the plaza of the Collin County Jail Thursday morning. They gathered in support of the 21 people arrested on the campus of the University of Texas Dallas Wednesday evening. “Being here really puts pressure on them to move the process along,” UT Dallas student Fatima Ahmed said. “It also let the people in there know they are not alone. That there are people out here supporting them and waiting on them to come home.” Those arrested refused to leave a pro-Palestine protest encampment on the university campus. Police moved in tearing down tents…
The powerful tornado that ripped through Interstate 35 in Marietta, Oklahoma, left a North Texas husband badly injured. Jeff Frederickson and his wife were on their way back home to Colleyville after driving up to Minnesota to pick up his family’s prized 1971 Thunderbird. They knew storms were popping up across Oklahoma on Saturday and felt it was safer to keep driving. A weather app showed storms on either side of them. When they got to Marietta, the storm intensified, and traffic came to a standstill. “Debris is flying hitting my truck,” he recalled. “I don’t know how bad it’s…
Two Northwest ISD students are under arrest and are facing felony charges after district officials said they collaborated on a “troubling and violent” document that outlined a plan to attack a middle school and named 32 students and staffers as targets. In a statement obtained by NBC 5, Northwest ISD said a parent alerted administrators at Truett Wilson Middle School on Wednesday about a “concerning document” and that while looking into the report the district discovered a detailed plan to attack the campus. Northwest ISD confirmed the online document also contained a “watch list” of 25 students and seven staffers at Wilson Middle School.…
The search is on for the gunman who injured six people, including four children, in a drive-by shooting outside a West Fort Worth apartment building Wednesday night, police say. Fort Worth police were called to the Miramar Apartments and Townhomes on the 3000 block of Las Vegas Trail at about 7:30 p.m. after reports of a shooting. When they arrived, officers reported finding six victims between the ages of 3 and 19 with a range of injuries from minor to severe. “It makes me sick to my stomach. You know what? It pisses me off. It pisses me off. I’ve…
The devastating impact often happens in darkness, on a highway, at high speed. Over 10 years, at least 650 people died and another 800 were injured in collisions involving wrong-way drivers on Texas roads, according to data from TxDOT. Across the United States, wrong-way crashes kill about 400 people every year. New technology is showing promise that drivers could soon be warned of the oncoming danger, giving them enough time to move toward safety. NBC 5 Investigates examined two emerging solutions, including one developed by family and friends of a man killed by a wrong-way driver in Collin County, and another…
A school board in Texas has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a transgender student from a role in the musical “Oklahoma!” The school board said in a statement that it voted Wednesday “to accept a voluntary separation agreement with Superintendent Dr. Tyson Bennett,” who was suspended in March after the board opened an investigation into the decision to remove the student. “The school district will continue to operate as normal in the best interest of students, staff and families,” according to the statement. Terms of the settlement were not revealed. The school…
