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Pro-Choice Supporters Set To Rally At Dallas City Hall
DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - Hundreds of pro-choice supporters, angered over new abortion restrictions set to become law in Texas, are expected to gather at Dallas City Hall Monday evening. “We are offended...
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Examining Texas’ Castle Doctrine Law
GARLAND (CBSDFW.COM) - The “not guilty” verdict in the George Zimmerman murder in Florida case has national some groups calling for review of so-called “Stand Your Ground” laws. Texas has a similar...
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Texas Prison System Pays $750K To Cool Down Pig Barns
Four piglets stand around their mother. (credit: JOCHEN LUEBKE/AFP/Getty Images) AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas prison system is paying $750,000 for climate-controlled barns for use in its pig farming...
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Grand Prairie Rolls Out Campaign Against Texting While Driving
(credit: CBSDFW.COM) GRAND PRAIRIE (CBDFW.COM) - City officials said Saturday that they’re ready to move ahead with their campaign against texting while driving. Starting September first, drivers...
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Texas Law Gets Tough On Public, Private Drone Use
An unmanned surveillance drone. (Photo credit BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) AUSTIN (AP) — A hobbyist using a remote-control airplane mounted with a digital camera just happened to capture images last...
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Rapist Receives Multiple Life Sentences In Tarrant County
Anthony Devern Session (credit: Fort Worth County Jail) FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - A Tarrant County judge sentenced a convicted felon to multiple life sentences on Friday for sexually abusing his...
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Process Server Granny Leaves Her Mark
HOUSTON (1080 KRLD) – It appears a Houston process server didn’t appreciate being duped…and she let that be known by urinating in a man’s driveway. Mitch Zarskey says the woman, who appears to be in...
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Six Flags Over Texas Denies Liability In Texas Giant Death
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) - Six Flags has denied being responsible for the death of a woman who fell off the Texas Giant roller coaster in July. In a court filing the company argues it was just an...
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Trial Of Father Charged For Open Carrying Rifle Draws Attention
BELTON (AP) – A trial has begun in Central Texas that’s drawn the attention of gun-rights advocates who question why a police officer confronted a man legally carrying a semi-automatic rifle as he...
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The Top 10 Mistakes On Jerry Jones’ Cowboys Legal Pad
Dallas Cowboys owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images) IRVING (105.3 THE FAN) – In the immediacy of the moment, some Dallas Cowboys observers believe the...
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Next Round In Abortion Battle Starts This Week
The Routh Street Women’s Clinic in Dallas is one of many clinics, which will shutter if tougher abortion restrictions are passed. (credit: CBS 11 News) AUSTIN (AP) – The next round in the fight over...
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Parts Of New Texas Abortion Law Ruled Unconstitutional
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — — A federal judge determined Monday that new Texas abortion restrictions place an unconstitutional burden on women seeking to end a pregnancy, a ruling that keeps open dozens...
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Texas Votes In First Election Day Under ID Law
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas voters went to the polls on Tuesday for the state’s first election requiring people to show ID. A new law requires voters to present one of seven forms of photo...
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Supreme Court Refuses To Block Texas Abortion Restrictions
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court is allowing Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state’s clinics to stop...
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Soldier Convicted Of Interfering After Open Carrying Rifle In Central Texas
BELTON, Tex (AP) – A Central Texas jury has found a Fort Hood soldier guilty of interfering with a police officer after his arrest while carrying an assault-style rifle in public. Jurors deliberated...
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Obamacare Key Dates In 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law March 2010. Over the ensuing three years, various provisions of the law have gone into effect. The newly created health insurance marketplaces opened...
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Jury Convicts Financial Planner Of Wire Fraud
(credit: Ian Waldie/Getty Images) FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - A federal jury convicted Caleb Deason, 34, Wednesday on an indictment charging one count each of wire fraud and money laundering. It took two...
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Supreme Court Takes Cases On Cellphone Searches
WASHINGTON (CBSDFW/AP) - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police need a warrant to search the cellphones of people they have arrested. Justices said Friday they’ll hear appeals in two...
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Gov. Perry Defends States’ Right To Legalize Marijuana
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Gov. Rick Perry is defending Colorado and Washington’s legalization of marijuana as a states’ rights issue – and says he wants to keep minor drug offenders out of jail....
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The First, Legal Gay Marriage In Texas?
NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – Judge Carl Ginsberg presided over two ceremonies its participants believe are the first, legal gay marriage in Texas. Two couples said their “I-do’s” and all four people...
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