Crime and Public Safety

Former Cedar Hill police officer Donald Najee Mercer has been sentenced to 300 days in jail following a conviction for official oppression and abusing his power during a 2024 traffic stop.

Fort Worth Police continue to investigate a fatal shooting that left an adult man dead Sunday morning on the city's west side.

Troopers in Missouri say 11 skydivers and a pilot died in a fiery plane crash in Butler on Sunday.

A woman armed with a rifle was taken into custody Monday morning after an hours-long standoff in a residential neighborhood, police said.

A special operation conducted by CBP officers in Indianapolis earlier this month targeting counterfeit World Cup merchandise resulted in the interception of hundreds of items.

A juvenile has died after being struck by an SUV Saturday morning along the northbound Julius Schepps Freeway service road in Dallas.

One person is in custody after Watauga police discovered two adult men fatally shot inside a home in the 6000 block of Storm Drive late Sunday night.

A police chase that began in a neighboring suburb ended in Fort Worth on Sunday when the suspect crashed into a light pole and died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man found dead late Sunday night in the southern part of the city, authorities said Monday.

One person was killed and two train passengers suffered minor injuries Sunday after a vehicle crossed onto DART tracks and was struck by a Blue Line train in northeast Dallas.

A passenger was critically injured after a pickup truck ran a red light and struck a sedan in Northeast Fort Worth on Sunday morning.

A homicide investigation has been launched after an 18-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday morning in Dallas, authorities said.

Detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that left an adult man dead Sunday morning on the city's west side, authorities said.

Former Everman deputy fire chief Joel Jones was sentenced to life in prison after a Tarrant County jury heard details of a horrific home-invasion rape plot he orchestrated.

One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting at a nightclub parking lot early Sunday morning, authorities said.

More than 60 people were arrested after large crowds formed near Madison Square Garden following the Knicks game, with the NYPD reporting a shooting, slashings, burned buses, damaged police vehicles and injured officers.

A suspect flashed his gun at two enterprising children who set up a lemonade stand in Boston as he and his accomplice swiped the kids’ cash box.

Court records confirm Harden was arrested in Harris County on an “Unlawful Carrying Weapons" charge.