DALLAS – Dallas police chief David Brown told the Dallas City Council’s Public Safety Committee that homicides are up 86% this year and violent crimes are up 22%. In an effort to reduce the crime rate, Chief Brown is moving 600 officers who currently work in the day, to overnight shifts when most crimes occur. …… MORE
WBAP – Dallas firefighters called a second alarm as a precaution Saturday while fighting a fire in the Atrium on Elmbrook office building, in northwest Dallas. The fire was confined to a single suite of second floor offices, but there was much smoke damage done throughout the structure. Because the fire started on a Saturday…… MORE
WBAP – A young woman who left food cooking in her apartment kitchen Saturday afternoon when she went upstairs to change her baby’s diaper accidentally started a fire that did extensive damage to her building in the Davenport Apartments complex near the Dallas North Tollway and Belt Line. The blaze started on the first floor,…… MORE
A disturbance call Saturday night in south Dallas turned into an officer involved shooting. Police were called to an apartment complex near Danieldale Park where officers found a man standing in the complex’s common area, holding a shot gun. At least one officer fired at him when the suspect turned toward him, and pointed his shotgun…… MORE
A car crashed into a house in Arlington late Saturday night. The driver told police another vehicle cut him off on Myna Drive near Pearcy Elementary School. He left the road, careened across the front lawn, and smashed into the home’s living room. He was not hurt, and there was no one in the house at the time.…… MORE