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In the face of declining enrollment and projected budget shortfalls, the Fort Worth Independent School District plans to cut staff. Superintendent Angelica Ramsey posted the announcement online Monday. "This year, due to continued projections of declining enrollment, coupled with legislative inaction on public school financing, the sunsetting of ESSER funds, fewer federal dollars, and a projected budget deficit, it has become necessary for us to make additional reductions both in budgets and staff," Ramsey wrote. School board members spent three hours in executive session during a special meeting on Tuesday night, discussing which positions and how many will be affected....

A Texas mother was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making false statements to police about her two-year-old son's life-threatening injuries sustained in February, in which he had suffered internal injuries, burns, and a lacerated liver. Shelby Martinez, 30, was arrested on Saturday at her apartment complex where her son was injured and has been charged with making false statements to police, according to KFDX Wichita Falls. Authorities say Martinez and the boy's father, Thomas Gates, tried to cover up how their child received life-threatening injuries. Their two-year-old son was allegedly run over by Gates when he was backing out with...

A man who opened fire in a parking lot outside a strip club near Ft. Worth, Texas, Sunday, managed to wound three people before being shot and killed by armed club security. The Associated Press reported the shooting followed a fight inside the club, Temptations Cabaret, which resulted in the man being ejected from the business.

In what has been described by constitutional expert Jonathan Turley in an online column as an "all-too-familiar scene," a video has emerged showing members of the radical – and violent – leftist organization Antifa attacking those with whom it disagrees, this time in Fort Worth, Texas. The video of the April 23, 2023, incident (Be aware of offensive images and situations): Turley explained there were some members of "Protect Texas Kids" objecting to a "planned drag show that would reportedly involve children. Antifa, of course, is intolerant of any such views. This incident, he said, "was caught on videotape and...

I love Steve Inman, who takes video clips and adds his commentary to them. Inman is hilarious. He can be found on Twitter and on RumbleIn this clip Inman takes on Antifa. Antifa are a bunch of cowardly soy boy wankers. That much you know. They gang up and attempt to intimidate people, using fascist tactics while accusing other of being fascists. Although the video with the commentary is funny, I realized after a bit that this was the perfect instructional video to demonstrate the tactics of the Antifa wimps. Watch: https://rumble.com/embed/v2htu8m/?pub=etylzA group of people on one corner in a...

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has once again delayed the long-awaited death penalty trial of the self-professed 9/11 mastermind and his four co-conspirators held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the judge handling the cases revealed recently. Justice remains elusive nearly two decades after the jihadis executed the attack that left about 3,000 people dead and over 6,000 injured, marking the deadliest assault on U.S. soil. U.S. officials charged the late Osama bin Laden’s close ally Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) alongside his nephew, Ammar al-Baluchi, accused hijacking trainer Walid bin Attash, facilitator Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and al-Qaeda money...

Dean was convicted of manslaughter for shooting and killing Atatiana Jefferson in her home in 2019. He was on duty as a police officer at the time. Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison for the manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson. Dean shot Jefferson through her bedroom window while responding to a call about open doors at her home. The last part of his sentence resonates with the date of that call: Oct. 12, 2019. If sentenced to 10 years or less, Dean would have been eligible for...

A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun. Jurors also considered a murder charge against Aaron Dean but instead convicted him of manslaughter. The conviction comes more than three years after the white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old Black woman while responding to a call about an open front door. Dean, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison, with the sentencing phase of his trial set...

President Biden phoned the parents of Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine detained in Russia, on Tuesday to “reiterate his commitment to doing everything he can to bring their son home,” according to a White House official. The phone call came after the family had unsuccessfully sought a meeting with Biden during his trip to Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday for an event focused on veterans health care. “After his event in Fort Worth, the President called Joey and Paula Reed to reiterate his commitment to doing everything he can to bring their son home, to staying in close touch...

Candidates backed by conservative political action committees won their races in Fort Worth area suburban school board races. Patriot Mobile, a Grapevine cellphone company that calls itself “America’s only Christian conservative wireless service provider,” poured $500,000 into a PAC to support candidates in the Carroll, Grapevine-Colleyville, Keller and Mansfield school districts, where the races included debates about critical race theory and what books are on library shelves. Every one of its candidates won, according to unofficial results early Sunday with all vote centers reporting. Candidates in the Carroll school district backed by Southlake Families PAC — founded by Tim O’Hare,...

Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror." Malik Faisal Akram was shot and killed after the last of the hostages got out at around 9 p.m. Saturday at Congregation Beth Israel near Fort Worth. In a statement, the FBI said there was no indication that anyone else was involved, but it didn't provide a possible motive. Akram could be heard ranting on a...

Colleyville police are conducting SWAT operations in the 6100 block of Pleasant Run Road this afternoon around a synagogue, police said on social media. All residents in the immediate area are being evacuated, and people are asked to avoid the area.

Members of the Fort Worth Independent School District’s Racial Equity Committee came to the defense of their co-chair Norma Garcia-Lopez on Thursday, after she received dozens of threatening and racist phone and social media messages in November.... ...after a Fox News article reported that Garcia-Lopez doxxed the people who filed a lawsuit against the Fort Worth school district over its mandatory mask mandate this summer.... ..."Some people consider my actions doxxing," Garcia-Lopez said in a prepared statement. "It's not doxxing when you expose someone who filed a public motion in a public court of law that impacts public school children."...

A suspected gunman in a deadly Fort Worth, Texas, shooting has been stoned to death, according to local reports. What are the details? The unnamed suspect reportedly opened fire on a group of partygoers in the early hours of Monday morning, killing one and injuring at least three others, KDFW-TV reported. Following the shooting, the crowd reportedly chased down the suspect and began throwing gardening stones and landscaping bricks, fatally injuring the suspect. The Sun reported that a local reporter quoting the Fort Worth Police Department said that "the crowd defended themselves with gardening stones, killing the gunman." A news...

Mayor Betsy Price called for the resignation of Human Relations Commission member Mike Steele on Tuesday, hours after Steele’s demeaning and offensive Facebook posts drew attention. Steele’s Facebook posts drew public scrutiny when Emily Farris, a Texas Christian University political science professor, began tweeting screenshots of them. She said she was appalled to see Steele’s public profile, calling his posts “racist, sexist, transphobic, and anti-immigrant.” Steele said he did not plan to resign. He touted his military service in the Gulf War, saying he is a disabled combat veteran, and mentioned his time as a Watauga city councilman. He said...

A 90-year-old Texas veteran is recovering Tuesday as police are searching for a group of teens who reportedly hurled a chunk of asphalt through the windshield of a car he was traveling in over the weekend. Raymond Mikeska of Fort Worth suffered a chest injury Sunday evening after the asphalt came raining down from an overpass along Interstate-30. ... The station reported that Fort Worth Police are now trying to track down the kids believed to be responsible for the incident. ... [Cindy] Boyd said she looked up at the kids who she says threw the asphalt, and they “just...

For any motivated Freepers in Fort Worth, TX, there is a leftist continent in the city government called "Task Force For Race and Culture" which is an innocuous-sounding name for Cultural Marxism. A town hall tonight will solicit citizen input into issues of the "extent [which] Fort Worth residents experience disparities – in criminal justice, economic development, education, health, housing, and transportation – that are attributable to race and culture?" This is code for race baiting and homoFascism. Anyone interested in joining me, the meeting will be at Tarrant County College-South Campus at 6:30 pm.

The white Fort Worth police officer who was suspended for 10 days for using excessive force when arresting a black woman and her daughters will appeal the suspension in a hearing Tuesday.  {snip} Martin's attorney, Terry Daffron, said she wants access to text messages on city cellphones between the two commanders who were in charge of the internal affairs investigation in the Dec. 21 arrest, which was captured in a video, according to WFAA-TV (Channel 8). She says the texts will show bias against Martin, according to the station.

Friday afternoon, Fort Worth city leaders gathered to denounce the leaking of police body-camera video and documents, as well as to promise that systemic changes will be recommended to the Fort Worth Police Department in light of a December incident that remains in the headlines. On Dec. 21, Fort Worth police responded to a disturbance on the city’s south side. The incident was streamed live on Facebook, and it showed Officer William Martin becoming physical with mother Jacqueline Craig and her daughters, Craig had called police for help after she said a neighbor hurt her 7-year-old son. Since then, Officer...

Fort Worth Police say they went to the Hulen Mall Monday night on a shots fired call. When they arrived, they found no evidence of a shooting. What they found instead were massive melees, breaking out one after the other inside the mall. Police say between 100 and 150 teenagers were fighting each other in the food court. In the end, police say up to four teenagers received citations for fighting. We know now that mall fights similar to these happened all over the country Monday night. Police are looking into the connections.