Breaking News from Mesquite TX

DALLAS COUNTY - A Marshalltown man died after his car slammed into a tree on I-80 early Saturday morning. According to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol, 32-year-old Jose Luis Ramirez Cardenas was driving on I-80 West, left the road, struck a tree, and the car rolled over and came to a stop

The Daughters and Sons of Republic of Texas held their February meeting at the Opal Lawrence house earlier this month and had the opportunity to explore a piece of Mesquite history and a glimpse at an upcoming project.

Dallas Police are currently investigating an officer involved shooting. The shooting happened near the intersection of Fair Oaks Avenue and Phoenix Drive, not far from Sam Tasby Middle School and just east of Northpark Center.

ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) A judge has thrown out a felony record-tampering indictment against the first black woman elected sheriff in Texas. Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens was indicted in April 2018 on a state jail felony charge of record tampering, along with two misdemeanor campaign finance vio

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) –​ A woman wanted for the murder of a Dallas man is in local custody after being captured trying to cross back into Texas from Mexico. Forty-four year-old Antonia De La Fuente was caught during a secondary inspection at the Gateway Bridge in Brownsville. She’s suspected in th

A Texas man is facing criminal charges after police said his four children were found living in a filthy Dallas home and did not appear to know their own names. Robert Preston, 31, was arrested last Saturday and taken to Dallas County jail after officers responded to a call at around 6:30 p.m. that

A public hearing was conducted during the Feb. 18 Mesquite City Council meeting to consider an ordinance submitted by Stantec Consulting Services, on behalf of Market East Associates, LLC, for a change of zoning from commercial and Town East Retail and Restaurant (TERRA) overlay to planned developme

Clark Gable III, the 30-year-old grandson of Hollywood legend Clark Gable, was found dead in his Dallas home Friday morning, his family said. "I got a call from his girlfriend, and I didn't even know what she was saying, she was so hysterical," his mother, Tracy Scheff, told Radar, an online celebri

A Texas representative has filed a House Bill that will end tolls on toll roads once they are paid off. House Bill 436 was filed in November 2018 by representative Matt Shaheen from Plano.

A student was arrested Tuesday after police said he brought a gun to Poteet High School in Mesquite. The gun was discovered after students notified a school official that the student had the weapon on campus, police said. A school resource officer made contact with the student, and found the handgun

TEXAS CITY, Texas (KTRK) -- A woman with a taste for high-end handbags and wallets is wanted in Texas City. Surveillance video captured a woman stealing from the Kate Spade store at the Tanger Outlets on Tuesday evening.

AUSTIN, Texas — If you're cruising down Highway 304 and head just south of Bastrop, you'll probably pass by a quiet — and familiar — building. The original 1974 film 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed at a gas station along the highway.

A woman was hospitalized in Dallas a day after she was set on fire during a robbery at a convenience store in East Texas. Robert Thompson, 40, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and robbery in Thursday's attack in Palestine, police said.

Four young boys were found Saturday inside a squalid Dallas apartment and their father was arrested, a report said. Police were reportedly alerted after a neighbor said she spotted an unaccompanied 3-year-old wearing a t-shirt and one shoe in 40-degree weather.

A group of hunters in Childress, Texas, weren’t the least bit fazed after finding and killing a rattlesnake during an outing last fall. But when the snake appeared to spring back to life on the grill, well, that may have been a little more rattling.

Apple has decided to close one of their stores in Frisco and one in Plano but plan to open a brand new store in Galleria Dallas, the company announced on Friday. The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano and the Stonebriar Centre in Frisco will be losing their Apple stores but the company plans to upgrade t

The Eastern District of Texas is home to a crooked court that is in the pocket of patent trolls, handing down ludicrous rulings in favor of the trolls, whose "head offices" are tiny, unoccupied offices in empty, dusty office buildings, the rent on which entitles patent trolls to claim that their rig

The Under Armour All-America Camp Series continues Sunday at Martin High School in Arlington, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The Under Armour Dallas regional camp is the second in Texas in as many weeks following this past Sunday's Houston camp. The prior two weeks saw events in Miami an

WACO, Texas (KWTX) A China Spring man found guilty of seven counts of sexual abuse of a young family member over the course of a decade was sentenced to 356 years in state prison on Thursday.

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Florida man accused of duping a Texas school district into transferring him nearly $2 million which he then used to buy a BMW and Rolex watches.