The defendant was jailed after he was accused of threatening to blow up the Texas Christian University campus.

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office recently hired Dallas County’s former top jail official to run Tarrant County’s jail system amid scrutiny over a spike in jail deaths. And ...

Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells speaks to supporters at the Tarrant County Republican watch party. Sorrells submitted a letter to Attorney General Ken Paxton arguing that ...

Anthony Johnson Jr. died after Tarrant County jailers pepper sprayed him, and one knelt on his back. His death was ruled a ...

A Tarrant County jury on Tuesday found former Texas Christian University student Ahmad Peterson-Adeyanju not guilty of assaulting a detention officer after a tense lunch-hour clash inside the county ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said jail staff "performed magnificently" leading up to the death of Mason Yancy, who died in the Tarrant County Jail Dec. 27. Yancy's family ...

Texas Commission on Jail Standards Executive Director Brandon Wood (right) and commission Chair Bill Stoudt listen as Tarrant County resident Cassandra Johnson speaks during the public comment segment ...

The family of a man who died in the Tarrant County Jail last December sent a letter to Tarrant County commissioners on Saturday asking them to petition for a trial to remove Sheriff Bill Waybourn from ...

Cassandra Johnson, whose son Trelynn Wormley died in the Tarrant County jail on July 20, 2022, speaks to members of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards on Feb. 6, 2025. CODY COPELAND ccopeland@star ...

This is not going to change nothing,” said Daryl Washington, the attorney for Johnson’s family. “It doesn’t change the fact that Anthony was killed. Not only killed, he was murdered.” ...

TARRANT COUNTY – An inmate is dead after experiencing a medical emergency at the Tarrant County Jail on Friday. Detention officers and JPS Medical staff provided life-saving medical assistance to the ...

A two-day undercover operation at a Fort Worth hotel in November ended with 20 men in handcuffs after investigators say they ...