Soup Dumpling Invasion: Ugly Dumpling Lands First DFW Outpost In Allen
Soup dumplings are officially marching into Allen. Ugly Dumpling, the Shanghai-style soup-dumpling chain, is opening its first Dallas–Fort Worth restaurant at 213 N. Central Expressway in early fall, bringing hand-made xiao long bao and bubble teas to the busy McDermott Road corridor and adding a national name to...
Some Mansfield High School students walkout in protest of ICE
Students at Mansfield ISD high schools participated in walkouts on Thursday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies. A small group of students gathered outside Summit High School. Organizers said the turnout was modest, but the issue was important to them. “I organized this up because the ICE stuff...
Arlington Apartment Fight Ends With 15-Year Prison Term
A Tarrant County judge yesterday handed 32-year-old Darius Brown a 15-year prison sentence for the 2022 killing of his sister’s boyfriend, 40-year-old Donald Hunt, closing the book on a deadly argument that turned an Arlington apartment complex into a crime scene. The shooting happened on Aug. 26, 2022, in...
Arlington man who smothered wife gets 17 more years in prison than before appeal
Just after he killed his wife in Arlington , Tareq Alkayyali predicted in a telephone call to a colleague that he would be going to prison for the rest of his life. Although he did not receive that bleak sentence, Alkayyali will at minimum be confined for about a decade longer than if had he not appealed his murder...
Fort Worth son stabs mother to death, police say
FORT WORTH, Texas — A woman was found dead from apparent stab wounds following a domestic altercation on Friday night, according to Fort Worth police. Officers responded to a cutting call at the 4800 block of Cargill Circle at 8:57 p.m. Upon arrival, they discovered the female victim, who was pronounced dead at the...
Five teens arrested after Fort Worth police say they fired toward occupied homes
Police say 911 callers reported bullets "passing by their heads" before officers traced the suspects to a vehicle seen on surveillance video.
Aurora Adds 1,000-Mile Driverless Run from Fort Worth to Phoenix
Aurora Innovation said it has tripled its driverless trucking network to 10 routes as it prepares to expand autonomous freight operations across the southern United States. The Pittsburgh-based company said its latest software release enables its Aurora Driver autonomous control system to operate on longer lanes,...
Jury awards over $600K to former Tarrant sheriff’s deputy in retaliation case
A former Tarrant County sheriff’s deputy was awarded $625,000 this week by a federal jury that found he faced retaliation after he reported misconduct by a white colleague and racial discrimination. Former deputy Brandon Walker, who is Black, represented himself in the three-day trial — at the U.S. District Court for...
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Cattlemen’s
My wife and I are standing under the Cattlemen’s sign everyone in our city knows and loves, its twinkling lights firing up North Main as they have for decades, that big fake cow just a few feet above our heads. Before going in, we’re pausing for a moment while I try to remember the last time I was here. Twenty years?...
Fort Worth Man Sentenced to 40 Years for Assault on 12-Year-Old
A Tarrant County jury has convicted 24-year-old Luis Boscan of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl, and a judge has ordered him to serve 40 years in prison. Prosecutors say the girl left her home on Sept. 1, 2024, and was allowed to stay at Boscan’s residence, where the assaults occurred. The verdict...
