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There have been many excuses for players to miss practice in sports, but Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey reminded everyone that even the pros cannot escape jury duty. Aubrey missed Wednesday’s Cowboys practice with the designation of "NIR-Other (jury duty)." Aubrey, who has been one of the league’s best placekickers this season, was selected for a 12-person jury for a felony assault case in Tarrant County, per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It has been reported that the case involved a second-degree strangulation charge. As noted, Aubrey was selected, which means this was not a one-and-done situation for him. He is...

Mark Cuban has been one of the Harris campaign’s most visible outside surrogates in recent months. Now he’s making it official. The billionaire businessman will embark on a series of formal campaign appearances for Kamala Harris beginning with stops alongside the vice president later today, a campaign aide told Yahoo Finance exclusively. It’s a move that comes as the Harris campaign amps up its efforts to reach young men and further capitalize on the "Shark Tank" star's popularity in the worlds of both finance and sports. The first stop will be alongside the vice president today in Milwaukee and La...

In the past year, several high-profile Texas megachurch pastors have either stepped down or been dismissed due to what's been labeled as “immoral behavior” or “conduct unbecoming of a pastor.” These terms may sound vague, but they point to a troubling pattern of persistent wrongdoing, ranging from sexual misconduct to financial dishonesty and abuses of power.Tony Evans resigned from his pastoral duties at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, in June 2024 due to “past sins.” While he clarified that he had not committed a crime, he admitted to a failure to exercise righteous judgment. The specifics of the...

Modern-day grave robbers in Texas have seized unclaimed bodies belonging to veterans and sold their limbs for profit without the consent or knowledge from their grieving family members. Victor Carl Honey, 58, a dedicated Army veteran, who struggled with mental illness, died in September 2022 of heart failure. Honey was among the 2,350 people whose remains were sent to the body donation program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort-Worth. However, a month after his death, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Officer deemed Honey's body 'unclaimed' after they said phones for relatives were disconnected even though...

It was a real flight to nowhere. Passengers aboard a recent international American Airlines flight were flabbergasted after the plane turned around five hours into the trip — without any explanation. One of the flummoxed flyers detailed the aerial about-face in a viral Instagram video. “American Airlines needs a lesson in effective communication,” Jimin Lee, 41, captioned the clip of the incident, which occurred Sept. 7 aboard AA flight 281 from Dallas, Texas, to Seoul, South Korea ... crew members provided “zero explanation” for aborting the flight bound for Incheon International Airport,

A notorious Venezuelan gang is extending its tentacles into the U.S. on the back of the Biden-Harris administration’s border crisis, and experts say that immigration authorities have no way of identifying the criminal group’s members before they hit American soil. The gang, known as Tren de Aragua, has made headlines in recent weeks with its criminal activities in multiple states, according to multiple reports. Yet, border authorities have virtually zero tools to detect Venezuelan migrants’ affiliations with the gang, as the U.S.’ diplomatic relationship with the beleaguered country is effectively on ice, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We...

Russell Bentley, 64, who fought alongside pro-Putin rebels in eastern Ukraine, was tortured and murdered by Russian servicemen, Kremlin investigators said on Friday. Bentley, a self-described communist from Dallas, Texas, went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was later found dead. Nicknamed “Texas”, he regularly appeared on pro-Kremlin social media channels, backing Moscow’s full-scale military offensive.

Video footage has captured the horrifying moment a man creeped up behind a woman before knocking her unconscious in a viscous broad daylight attack. An unidentified woman fell victim to the violent assault in downtown Dallas on Thursday afternoon in what authorities describe as an apparently 'unprovoked attack.' The incident occurred around 1:15pm at the bustling intersection of Elm Street and Field Street. The video, captured by Security footage from The Drakestone apartments, revealed the terrifying moment the unsuspecting woman was approached by the suspect while she was standing at the corner. A man swiftly approached her from behind and...

DALLAS - Dallas police are investigating what appears to be an unprovoked attack on a woman in Downtown Dallas. FOX 4 obtained surveillance video depicting the attack from Thursday afternoon. The video shows a woman waiting at an intersection when a man comes up from behind and hits her over the head with some object. The woman dropped to the ground. The attacker continued on his way to cross the street as if nothing happened.

The Venezuelan “Tren De Aragua” gang is now taking over a Texas hotel amid the rise in violent and disturbing illegal alien crimes currently plaguing the nation. According to documents released on Monday, the El Paso County Attorney’s office has filed for a temporary injunction, a restraining order, as well as an original petition for abatement of a common nuisance against a hotel over allegations surrounding suspicions of criminal activity involving “Tren De Aragua” gang members. Officials are seeking to shut down Gateway Hotel and hold its owner Howard Yun responsible for allegedly allowing the property to turn into a...

In Dallas, election workers are being directed to apply church addresses to homeless people who are registering to vote. This is certainly a questionable practice. In most states you cannot register from a mailbox, or empty lot, or grocery store, or some place where you do not live. A video from Dallas County, Texas, shows election trainers directing workers to use church addresses to register homeless individuals to vote. The video was reportedly taken on August 24 during election training in the county. The individual reportedly performing the training was from the Dallas County Elections Department. The trainer also shared...

Dallas Police Department confirmed Tren De Aragua is in North Texas committing crimes.. The notorious South American mob best known for sex trafficking girls and women and exploiting their fellow Venezuelans, crossed the US-Mexico border in recent years .. mixed in with asylum-seeking migrants, and is behind a crime wave stretching from Miami to New York. Last week in Aurora, Colorado, gang members were seen in a video storming an apartment complex armed to the hilt with assault rifles and banging on doors. In North Texas, the criminal organization's presence had been rumored for at least a year, but for...

DALLAS - Three Dallas police officers have been shot after some kind of violent incident in Oak Cliff Thursday night. Multiple police sources tell FOX 4 that three officers were shot in some kind of gunfire exchange near the Oak Cliff Community Center on Ledbetter near Marsalis Avenue. Two of those officers were seriously injured, according to the source. The third officer is expected to be okay. Police sources say the suspect is dead. Online 911 records show police responding to an ‘assist an officer’ call in Oak Cliff around 10 p.m. A suspect led police on a high-speed chase...

In 2002, the City of Dallas leased part of its property, about 77 acres, to a private entity, the State Fair of Texas, for 24 days each year to operate the State Fair. The State Fair allowed people with a handgun carry permit to carry on the fairgrounds. The 2002 lease has a duration of 25 years.On October 14, 2023, a young man, 22-year-old Cameron Alexander Turner, fired 3 or 4 shots and wounded three people at the fair. Turner did not have a concealed carry permit. Turner claimed self-defense. Video from the fair does not appear to support that...

UPDATED 10:05 p.m. Central—The historic sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Dallas, the church led by Pastor Robert Jeffress, caught fire on Friday night. The cause remains unknown, though the fire comes less than one week after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, of whom Jeffress has long been an impassioned supporter.“Dallas Fire-Rescue is currently battling a two-alarm fire in a building located at 1717 San Jacinto Street,” Chief Robert Borse told The Daily Signal. “The initial call was received at 6:05 p.m., and crews arrived on scene at 6:09 p.m.”“The fire has been knocked down and contained,”...

Dallas Fire Rescue (DFR) responded to a three-alarm fire just after 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Dallas Church at 1707 San Jacinto St. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCSU1HLQIY

DALLAS — "Aim better." Those two words have put a sergeant with the Dallas Police Department on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, DPD sources tell WFAA. A screenshot of the post shared with WFAA shows the social media post made by Sgt. Arturo Martinez. This comes in the wake of former president Donald Trump being the target of an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennslyvania. The next day, the FBI identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The department said it received an internal complaint on July 13 "regarding a member...

Alex Stein exposing the creepy "Drag Your Kid To Pride" event from June 2022.

Because of course there’s this kind of drama in Big D … Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is reportedly not happy with the organization’s hierarchy, in particular with owner Jerry Jones for not respecting his leadership. According to a report from Go Long’s Tyler Dunne: “He’s doing it the best he can,” said a former Dallas personnel member recently. “Some of the people I’ve talked to have said that he’s getting fed up with it a little bit. It’s hard. I feel bad for [quarterback] Dak [Prescott]. I think Dak’s a really good quarterback who is capable of taking...

A Dallas ISD employee headlined an anti-bullying event that discussed “religious or faith-based LGBTQIA+ discrimination,” according to documents obtained in an open records request by The Dallas Express.