10 Stories on Dallas County
To cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma is to share a stage with history. And these days, it is to come face-to-face with a bleak present.
An air-supported roof over the Dallas Cowboys' practice field collapsed during a heavy thunderstorm Saturday afternoon, leaving 12 people injured, authorities said.
A man sent to prison more than 15 years ago has been freed after DNA testing concluded he was innocent
Wiley Fountain is homeless just five years after he walked out of prison an innocent man. He is one of the 17 men wrongfully convicted in Dallas County, Texas, then cleared by DNA evidence.
James Woodard is slowly returning to life. He is starting over after spending 27 years behind bars. He was wrongly imprisoned and cleared by DNA.
Justin Randall began to wonder if he had picked the wrong day to drive his convertible through downtown Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, as debris rained down from an explosion at a facility that sells acetylene gas.
Investigators want criminally negligent homicide charges brought against the driver of a bus that caught fire and exploded outside Dallas, killing 23 nursing home patients who were fleeing Hurricane Rita, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
There are a lot of mundane matters in a $2.7 billion fraud trial: contractual adjustments, weekly revenue reports, capital expenditure accounting, that sort of thing. But the Southern-fried trial o...
A man apparently upset over his share of a family inheritance shot and killed his sister and brother-in-law and then killed himself, authorities said.
If you go along with the forecast that in a year or so interest rates will be lower than they are now, think bonds: not just any bond, but zero-coupon bonds and not just any zeros but tax-exempt mu...
To cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma is to share a stage with history. And these days, it is to come face-to-face with a bleak present.
An air-supported roof over the Dallas Cowboys' practice field collapsed during a heavy thunderstorm Saturday afternoon, leaving 12 people injured, authorities said.
A man sent to prison more than 15 years ago has been freed after DNA testing concluded he was innocent
Wiley Fountain is homeless just five years after he walked out of prison an innocent man. He is one of the 17 men wrongfully convicted in Dallas County, Texas, then cleared by DNA evidence.
James Woodard is slowly returning to life. He is starting over after spending 27 years behind bars. He was wrongly imprisoned and cleared by DNA.
Justin Randall began to wonder if he had picked the wrong day to drive his convertible through downtown Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, as debris rained down from an explosion at a facility that sells acetylene gas.
Investigators want criminally negligent homicide charges brought against the driver of a bus that caught fire and exploded outside Dallas, killing 23 nursing home patients who were fleeing Hurricane Rita, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
There are a lot of mundane matters in a $2.7 billion fraud trial: contractual adjustments, weekly revenue reports, capital expenditure accounting, that sort of thing. But the Southern-fried trial o...
A man apparently upset over his share of a family inheritance shot and killed his sister and brother-in-law and then killed himself, authorities said.
If you go along with the forecast that in a year or so interest rates will be lower than they are now, think bonds: not just any bond, but zero-coupon bonds and not just any zeros but tax-exempt mu...
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