Defense Expert Warns 'Be A Safe Samaritan'
Just this week, in Richardson, Garland and Fort Worth, Good Samaritans were attacked and or robbed as they came to the aid of strangers.
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Just this week, in Richardson, Garland and Fort Worth, Good Samaritans were attacked and or robbed as they came to the aid of strangers.
Nancy Harris, the 76-year-old store clerk who was set on fire during a robbery last Sunday, has died from her injures.
An account has been set up for donations to assist Nancy Harris.
The man accused of setting an elderly Garland store clerk on fire appeared in court Wednesday.
A man who robbed a gas station in the 3300 block of Broadway Blvd. Sunday doused the 76 year old attendant in gasoline and set her ablaze, burning more than 40 percent of her body.
Garland police are searching for an elderly man suffering from symptoms related to mental illness.
A number of letters containing a suspicious white powder have turned up in North Texas Tuesday afternoon, many have been at Head Start centers across the area.
Prosecutors say the discovery of a misplaced cell phone with child pornography images has led to 30 years in prison for Gary Lee Jackson of Garland.
There are a number of "taste of" events that happen across North Texas but few can help solve a murder. The 23rd Annual Taste of Garland takes place Saturday and the money generated goes to fund the city's Crime Stoppers program.
A 52-year-old man from Garland was killed in Rowlett early Monday morning when his pickup truck was struck by a sedan fleeing from police.
What started as a trip to Starbucks ended in the attempted murder of a woman and the suicide of her husband.
A 19-year-old from Garland whose mom identified him to the FBI was sentenced to almost five years in jail after pleading guilty to bank robbery.
A 28-year-old Garland man is behind bars, accused of killing his own mother.
A 31-year-old Dallas-area man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to traveling for illicit sex.
Police in Garland say what began as a wild night of partying quickly got out of control and now two teenage girls are being charged with Capital Murder.
The westbound lanes of Interstate-30 in Garland were shut down early Tuesday morning after an 18-wheeler overturned along the highway.
A Garland bank robber, whose mother identified him to the FBI, faces up to 20 years in prison for three holdups last year.
The North Texas Tollway Authority opened a new segment of the President George Bush Turnpike in Garland Wednesday, connecting the tollway to Interstate 30.
A fraudulent credit card arrest and conviction points to huge and blossoming problem in North Texas and this one could be hitting your pocketbook without you knowing it.
Garland police are trying to figure out who is sending threatening letters to area Hispanic families, telling them to leave Texas.
A state representative has pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony charge in a deal that would allow him to avoid jail time.
The UNT community is mourning the tragic loss of a promising communications student. Twenty-three year old Dustin O'Dell died last Friday after being hit by a Denton County Transportation Authority train.
A state representative plans to plead guilty to a felony charge that he used taxpayer money to reimburse himself for travel expenses his campaign had already funded. Garland Rep. Joe Driver will enter the plea at a Nov. 22 court hearing.
When you drive down South Garland Road, you can't help but notice that a piece of Garland history has been stripped away.
Gary Jackson, 26, and Amber Schmidt, 24, are each charged with multiple child pornography crimes. Now police suspect the pair sexually abused children as well.
