Open Carry Demonstrators Take On Keller
KELLER (CBS 11 NEWS) - Another round today in the debate over the current state law on open carrying was taken to Keller. A group of protestors sounded off on laws they say are outdated and illegal by...
View ArticleFarmers Branch Loses Battle To Enact Anti-Immigrant Laws
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Pennsylvania coal town and a Dallas suburb lost a lengthy battle to enact anti-immigrant laws Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their appeals. The high...
View ArticleUS Appeals Court Upholds New Texas Abortion Rules
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -A federal appeals court has upheld new abortion restrictions that shuttered many of the abortions clinics in Texas. A panel of judges on the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit...
View ArticleCity Of Dallas Cracking Down On Pet Registration
DALLAS, Texas (1080 KRLD) – Around half a million pet owners in Dallas may not be aware that they are breaking the law. The city of Dallas requires dog and cat owners to register their pets with the...
View ArticleAbbott: Armed School Employees OK Under Texas Law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Attorney General Greg Abbott says Texas school districts that authorize employees to carry handguns aren’t violating state law. The Texas Legislature last year approved a measure...
View ArticleCity Of Arlington To Discuss Open Carry Ban At Meetings
ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A couple of items on tonight’s Arlington City Council agenda will bring Open Carry advocates to the meeting. Two issues are on the table. One would ban weapons at...
View ArticleOkla. Botched Execution Won’t Change Texas Death Penalty Procedures
OKLAHOMA (CBSDFW.COM) - Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett’s step-mom Ladonna Hollins is overwhelmed by sadness after his botched execution. “I know it was to put him to death, but not to torture him. It...
View ArticleTexas Gun Group Considers Changes Following Chipotle Backlash
DALLAS (1080 KRLD) – A Texas gun rights group is considering some changes after causing a national uproar at Chipotle when they walked in armed with assault rifles. Open Carry Texas received a lot of...
View ArticleRules To Combat Zebra Mussels Extended Statewide
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Texas Parks and Wildlife officials have expanded to the entire state a mandate that boaters on lakes and rivers drain their watercrafts to combat the spread of zebra...
View ArticleSCOTUS: Public Union Can’t Make Nonmembers Pay Fees
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court says public sector unions can’t collect fees from home health care workers who object to being affiliated with a union. The justices on Monday said collecting the...
View ArticleSupreme Court: Can’t Make Employers Cover Contraception
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women. The justices’...
View ArticleLegal Volunteers Needed For Thousands Of Border Kids Coming To Dallas
DALLAS, Texas (1080 KRLD) – The Dallas Hispanic Bar Association needs a few – or a thousand – lawyers, law students, para-legals – anyone willing to interview, screen and represent the proposed 2,000...
View ArticleI-Team Reveals How Cite and Release Could Make a Come Back
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - Caught with pot, but treated like it’s a speeding ticket. There’s actually a Texas law that allows people arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana to be ticketed...
View ArticleFirst School Marshal Training Begins Monday
TARRANT CO. (CBSDFW) – The first class of teachers and school administrators seeking a school marshal license begin training Monday. Twenty school staff members from undisclosed school districts will...
View ArticleTexas Asks Court To Allow Closure Of Most Clinics
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal appeals court that has already upheld a Texas law restricting abortions heard arguments Friday about an even tougher part of the same law, which requires all abortion...
View Article“Hot Bench” Is Hot
I have been programming TV stations since 1983 and I have seen a lot of shows but I am liking a new first run court show Hot Bench (weekdays 3:00 pm on TXA21). Billed as a spin-off from Judge Judy...
View ArticleAppeals Court Lets Texas Enforce Anti-Abortion Law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal appeals court Thursday allowed Texas to immediately begin enforcing tough new abortion restrictions that will effectively close all but seven abortion facilities in...
View ArticleTough Texas Abortion Law May Head To Supreme Court
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting “a showdown” at the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate judges allowed full implementation of a...
View ArticleCourt Refuses To Reconsider Texas Abortion Ruling
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A federal appeals court dealt Texas abortion providers another blow Thursday when it refused to reconsider its previous ruling that upheld one part of tough restrictions that...
View ArticleSupreme Court Puts Texas Abortion Law On Hold
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has blocked Texas from enforcing key parts of a 2013 law that would close all but eight of the state’s abortion facilities. The...
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