About 100 Harvey Victims Making Dallas Home. The Mayor’s Disaster Relief Fund, now up to $1.2 million after a surge of donations, will help cover the cost of everything from bus fares to kitchen supplies so those who lost everything can start a new life here. If you’d like to help replenish the fund, click here.
Jason Lowe Found Guilty of Girlfriend’s Death. The gruesome details and tall tales were shocking, the jury’s decision is not.
John Battaglia Deemed Mentally Well Enough to Die. Battagilia likely faked or exaggerated mental problems to avoid execution (he said “the KKK, child molesters, and homosexual lawyers” were conspiring against him). The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his sentence. A new execution date will be set for the Deep Ellum resident who shot his young daughters as they were on the phone with their mother in 2001.
Sexual Predator Accidentally Set Free in Tarrant County. Due to a bureaucratic error, the Tarrant County jail mistakenly freed a man recently convicted of sexually assaulting a child. The victim’s mother received messages about his release via a phone app and quickly alerted authorities. He turned himself in to Johnson County and all is well, but good grief let’s not do that again.
Frisco Heritage Kids Take Cute Pics, Go Viral. The group of friends enlisted a mom to take their homecoming pictures inside Ikea and the internet is loving it.
