Fort Worth ISD state takeover prompts trustee’s resignation
Just after Fort Worth ISD trustees lost their legal fight to stop the state takeover of the district, school board member Wallace Bridges announced his resignation on Friday. A state administrative court ruled in favor of the Texas Education Agency, concluding no factual disputes would justify overturning...
Kennedale Blender Attack Lands Local Man 42 Years Behind Bars
A Tarrant County jury has sentenced Hasani Gray to 42 years in prison after finding him guilty of aggravated assault for a March 27, 2025, attack inside a Kennedale home that left a 41-year-old man with a traumatic brain injury and an emergent craniotomy. Prosecutors say Gray struck the victim in the head with a...
Fort Worth Jury Slams Tarrant Sheriff’s Office Over Racial Bias
A federal jury in Fort Worth delivered a sharp rebuke to the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office yesterday, finding that the agency racially discriminated against a former deputy who reported misconduct and awarding him just over $600,000 in damages. The verdict capped a three-day trial where the ex-deputy represented...
Law enforcement agencies conduct coordinated operation in Dallas, Fort Worth
DALLAS, Texas — Multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies are conducting coordinated enforcement activity at several locations across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex this morning. The operation is part of an ongoing, multi-agency effort focused on public safety and the disruption of criminal activity within...
Panther Island Brewing closes its doors after 11 years, owners hold final farewell
FORT WORTH, Texas — The line around the old brick warehouse wrapped around the building, and anyone driving by may have thought it was for a concert. But on Friday night, dozens of people filled Panther Island Brewing for one last round inside the Fort Worth brewery that has served the community for more than a decade.
Jury Convicts Man in 2022 Arlington Apartment Shooting, Sentences Him to 15 Years
A Tarrant County jury has found 36-year-old Darius Romale Omar Brown guilty of murder and sentenced him to 15 years in prison for a 2022 fatal shooting in Arlington. The conviction stems from the August 26, 2022 shooting death of 40-year-old Donald Hunt at an apartment on Cypress Club Drive. According to trial...
Fort Worth Man Gets 35 Years in Apartment Shooting That Left Girlfriend’s Son Paralyzed
A Fort Worth man has been hit with a 35-year prison sentence after a Tarrant County jury convicted him of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a 2022 apartment shooting that left his girlfriend’s son paralyzed. The 24-year-old victim was shot once in the back at a Fort Worth apartment complex on Aug. 14, 2022,...
Marcus & Millichap brokers sale of 466-unit self-storage property in Crowley
Marcus & Millichap negotiated the sale of Dry Dock & Lock, a 466-unit self-storage property in Crowley, Texas. Danny Cunningham, Brandon Karr and Jon Danklefs, investment specialists in Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Worth and San Antonio offices, had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the return...
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...
