A 50-year-old man filed a lawsuit against Dallas County jail and Parkland Hospital System, alleging he contracted a staph infection while incarcerated that left him paralyzed with life-altering injuries.
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A grand jury indicted Landon Beck, a former Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD teacher, on a federal charge of making false statements to the FBI. Prosecutors allege Beck sent students inappropriate images and discussed pornography, but denied the conduct during FBI interviews and blamed students with special needs.
Landon Beck, Former Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD teacher; U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, Prosecutor; FBI Dallas, Investigator and 1 more
Andrew Vidovich pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 2024 motorcycle crash that killed his wife, Marti Vidovich. He had cocaine and lorazepam in his system and a blood alcohol level of 0.16 three hours after the crash.
$$5,000 for fine
Andrew Vidovich, defendant; pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter; Marti Vidovich, crash victim; passenger on motorcycle; Sam Moss, state District Judge and 1 more
Daniel Taylor, a former assistant professor of supply chain management at Texas Tech University, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for manufacturing and distributing fentanyl in the Lubbock area.
Daniel Taylor, Former assistant professor of supply chain management at Texas Tech's Rawls College of Business; U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, Judge who imposed the sentence; U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould, U.S. Attorney
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a 67-page lawsuit in Collin County against OpenAI and its founder Sam Altman, alleging the company deceived consumers and failed to protect children from harmful content through ChatGPT. The lawsuit alleges violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act.
Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, filing the lawsuit; Sam Altman, Founder of OpenAI, defendant; OpenAI, Defendant, maker of ChatGPT and 2 more
A judge in Angelina County ruled that an ethylene pipeline operated by Westlake Chemical can continue operating despite an easement dispute with a neighboring pipeline owner. The ruling prevents a potential shutdown that could have caused hundreds of layoffs at Westlake's Longview facility.
$more than 400 people for potential immediate layoffs at Westlake facility
Judge Todd Kassaw, 159th District Court judge in Angelina County; Larry Wright, Owner of Express H2O Pipeline and ROW LLC; Westlake Chemical OpCo, Operator of the ethylene pipeline and 1 more
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan rejected a request from surrogate McKenna West to intervene in a custody case. West had sought conservatorship over a child born to a California couple in Dallas after disagreeing with the parents' medical care decisions.
Elena Kagan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; McKenna West, surrogate; Nausheen Gilkar, intended parent and 2 more
Oura filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas federal court seeking to block U.S. sales of Ultrahuman's redesigned Ring Pro smart ring, alleging it violates two of Oura's patents. The suit also names Plano-based electronics manufacturer SVTronics as a defendant.
Oura, plaintiff filing patent infringement lawsuit; Ultrahuman, defendant accused of patent infringement; SVTronics, defendant, manufacturer of the Ring Pro
A Travis County jury found Daniel Perry not guilty of a misdemeanor deadly conduct charge on October 22, 2026, stemming from his 2020 fatal shooting of Garrett Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin. Perry had previously been convicted of murder in Foster's death and sentenced to 25 years in prison, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted him a full pardon in May 2024. Prosecutors then pursued the separate misdemeanor charge.
Daniel Perry, defendant; Garrett Foster, person fatally shot in 2020; Travis County jury, rendered not guilty verdict and 4 more