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A report commissioned by Dallas County and released in March by Evident Change, formerly the National Council on Crime & Delinquency and Children’s Research Center, found Dallas County is locking up minors for months longer than national standards recommend and is doling out more punitive judgments than some other big Texas counties.

DALLAS — Mark Halstead remembers the last time he was outside.

DALLAS -- Mark Halstead remembers the last time he was outside.

Dallas County is locking up minors for months longer than national standards recommend and administering more punitive rulings than other counties. Families worry their children are locked inside for most of the day.

A North Texas police officer has been killed while responding to a DWI investigation.

Nothem is survived by his wife, a 13-year-old son, twin 6-year-old sons, a 1-year-old-daughter, and many extended family members, police said.

Carrollton police looking for help to find three people who have repeatedly stolen from the same store, walking into the store and taking what they want right off the shelves.

Catalytic converter theft is not a new phenomenon, but there's a spike across the U.S. that's hitting Dallas-Fort Worth hard, including a large seizu

Quarantined police cruiser still off limits after doves hatch near hood     CARROLLTON, Texas (KTVT) — A pair of dove eggs on a Carrollton Police SUV, the department has been protecting for the last three weeks by keeping the vehicle out of service, have hatched. We aren’t really sure exactly when they were born because momma keeps hiding them under her wings,” Carrollton Police spokesperson Jolene DeVito told CBS 11. “We suspected they’d been born over the weekend, but yesterda...

Dove nest takes Texas police SUV out of service By (0) April 22 (UPI) -- A Texas police SUV is temporary out of service after a dove chose it as the location for her nest and hatched a pair of eggs. The Carrollton Police Department said the SUV was taken off the road March 30 when an officer discovered a mother dove had built a nest and laid a pair of eggs. Advertisement The department said the eggs now have hatched, but the SUV will be kept parked until the babies leave the nest. "We arent r...