DALLAS (Reuters) – The U.S. military veteran who fatally shot five Dallas police officers last week was plotting a larger assault, authorities said, disclosing how he had taunted negotiators and written on a wall in his own blood before being killed. Protests against U.S. police tactics continued for a third straight day on Sunday, with […]
Dallas police say a deadly ambush Thursday that killed five police officers during a protest was a “well-planned” attack carried out by several people. The U.S. military has confirmed one of the people, widely reported in U.S. media to be Micah Xavier Johnson, is a former Army Reservist who served in Afghanistan. Three other people, […]
Officials in Texas expect the Ellis dam 25 miles to the southwest of Dallas to fail sometime on Wednesday and are alerting residents and farmers to move themselves to higher ground. There is no mandatory evacuation order at this time. According to reports, the earthen dam at Padora Lake in Midlothian is eroding away and threatening to […]
A second nurse has been confirmed to have contracted Ebola connected with the care of Thomas Eric Duncan. Director of the Center for Disease Control Dr Thomas Frieden says that the health worker boarded a commercial airliner from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday just one day before she reported the symptoms of the deadly pathogen. […]