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A slain Dallas woman predicted her boyfriend would kill her. A jury says it wasn’t him Defense lawyer Wayne Lacy argued that the murder case against Victor Williams was circumstantial. Victor Williams (left) listens during his trial at the Frank Crowley Courthouse in Dallas on Tuesday , July 27, 2021.(Stewart F. House / Special Contributor) An emotional jury acquitted a Dallas man accused of killing the woman he planned to soon wed. Victor Williams used the mask he wore to guard against COVID-19 as a tissue and cried as State District Judge Audra Riley read the jury’s verdict of not guilt...

Reader Joanna Symmonds was shocked to learn that there was a town without any running water just a short drive from her home. “I was just horrified,”...

Texas Supreme Court tosses restraining order against Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther Texas Supreme Court tosses restraining order against Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther Shelley Luther would have faced five more days in jail for opening her business despite restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic if justices had found the order legitimate. Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther reacts to seeing supporters after being released from Dallas County Jail on May 7, 2020 in Dallas. The Texas Supreme Court ordered Luther release.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) A Dallas state district judge was...

Seven Journalists Talk About Covering a Year of National Trauma Slate 3/5/2021 Julia Craven © Provided by Slate Refrigeration trucks being used as a temporary morgue are parked outside Bellevue Hospital in New York on April 5. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images As the world began to shut down, the overarching sentiment was things wouldn’t go on like this: Whether it was the president’s fanciful message about a two-week lockdown or public health experts’ vision of an escalating, focused campaign to beat back the virus, the situation was definitely going to keep chan...

As the world began to shut down, the overarching sentiment was things wouldn’t go on like this: Whether it was the president’s fanciful message about a two-week lockdown or public health experts’ vision of an escalating, focused campaign to beat back the virus, the situation was definitely going to keep changing, somehow. Instead, all the different optimistic visions were replaced by open-ended stasis, immense loss, and extreme isolation. Refrigerated trucks turned into disaster morgues sat on New York street corners last spring, while U-Hauls outside of a local funeral home housed the ...