Brittani Moncrease

4 weeks ago | wfaa.com | Brittani Moncrease

DESOTO, Texas — With no clear winner in the May Election, a runoff will decide if Ken Waters or Everett Jackson takes DeSoto’s City Council Place 3. “I encourage voters to get out and vote,” said Terrence Gore, a DeSoto resident. That can seem murky for some, as Jackson’s eligibility is called into question. He checked the box disclosing he had a past felony conviction on his ballot application.

1 month ago | wfaa.com | Brittani Moncrease

DALLAS — From Shane Allen’s window, he has a clear view of Downtown Dallas’ Pegasus Plaza at Main and Akard. It’s not just the traffic that makes the intersection busy. It’s also where the past and present meet. In 1910, a Black man named Allen Brooks was lynched at the intersection after being accused of raping a white woman. A 1910 postcard showing a picture of the lynching was taken after a mob threw Brooks out a second-story window at the Old Red Courthouse.

1 month ago | wfaa.com | Brittani Moncrease

CEDAR HILL, Texas — When Ann Flores left her mother-in-law’s funeral last September, all she wanted was to repeat their favorite routine. “She was wanting to stop and get one of those slushies,” said Flores, a Cedar Hill resident. The two used to stop at the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Cedar Hill for slushies. On Sept. 27, instead of spending $1.06 for a special memory, the cost was more than Flores expected. “I can't.

1 month ago | wfaa.com | Brittani Moncrease

JOPPA, Texas — As a retired veteran, Donald Gilder would tell you that their training never goes away. “We just have backflashes, you know,” said Gilder, a Joppa resident. That’s what happened Saturday night at South Central Park in Joppa, a southeast neighborhood in Dallas. Witnesses told WFAA that just before 8 p.m., a group of men began shooting at another man on the park’s basketball court. Gilder ran to help. “I kneeled down to put his head on my knee and kept speaking to him.

1 month ago | myfoxzone.com | Brittani Moncrease

RED OAK, Texas — What some may see as a constraint is actually Jeraldo Henry Jr.’s freedom. He uses a wheelchair. “I’m not really a lazy person,” Henry said. He has that Kobe Bryant Mamba mentality. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance, hashtag no excuses,” said Henry. It is a mantra he lives by because when he was born, doctors diagnosed him with spina bifida. “Part of his spine when he was born was outside of his back,” said Jeraldo's mother, Christina Henry.