Multiple Texas universities share TCU’s interpretation of the Clery Act to determine when students need to be notified about crimes on and around campus.
Police departments at Baylor University, Texas A&M University and the University of North Texas practice TCU’s current policy of only sending out timely warnings and mass crime alerts via email or text message when the threat is “imminent," according to the universities' police chiefs.
In a March 7 story, ...
Authorities have determined that a 43-year-old Mesquite woman fatally shot her husband and their two adult children before killing herself.
The bodies of the four family members — one of whom was a University of North Texas student — were found Wednesday, four days after a 911 caller reported hearing gunfire at the home in the 1400 block of Paintbrush Street, near South Collins Road and East Kearney Street.
The Dallas County medical examiner’s office ruled that Angelica Vazquez committed suicide. A handgun was found on the floor in the master bedroom near her body, police said.
The deaths of her husband,...
From Dallas to Addison to Denton and far beyond, sex trafficking is a serious problem that finally seems to be getting sustained national attention.
But to the local officials on a University of North Texas panel on Thursday, there is still much work to be done. In particular, more people must understand that most of the women involved in sex trafficking are victims who were forced into the work, they said.
Some of the...
From Dallas to Addison to Denton and far beyond, sex trafficking is a serious problem that finally seems to be getting sustained national attention.
But to the local officials on a University of North Texas panel on Thursday, there is still much work to be done. In particular, more people must understand that most of the women involved in sex trafficking are victims who were forced into the work, they said.
Some of the...
Sobie Maduka didn't think twice about letting a stranger who appeared to be in need borrow her iPhone.
Maduka 23, was walking out of the University of Texas at Arlington library when a man she didn't know approached.
"Can I use your phone?" she said he asked. "Someone stole my bag in the library."
That was a mistake. He took off with her iPhone 4 and its case.
"It was horrible, horrible, horrible," Maduka said. "I let people use my phone all the time and nothing like this has ever happened."
The theft on Aug. 29 triggered a "campus crime advisory" to students. UT Arlington police gave...
