Jason Trahan

4 days ago | wfaa.com | Jason Trahan

DALLAS — Testimony begins Tuesday in the retrial of a Dallas developer accused of bribing two city council members, one of whom was cooperating with the FBI and secretly recorded himself getting a $7,000 check. If found guilty, Ruel Hamilton, 69, faces up to 25 years in prison. The retrial is presided over by Senior U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn, who also oversaw Hamilton’s 2021 trial.

Feb 7, 2025 | wfaa.com | Jason Trahan

DALLAS — In his first press conference addressing the bombshell Luka-Doncic-to-Los-Angeles-Lakers trade, Dallas Mavericks General Manager Nico Harrison mentioned how negotiations on the deal started with a conversation over a coffee with Lakers GM Rob Pelinka. An ESPN article by Ramona Shelburne and Tim MacMahon revealed that the inception of the shocking Davis-Doncic trade happened on Jan. 7, 2025, at Ascension Coffee in the lobby of the Hotel Crescent Court in Uptown Dallas.

Nov 11, 2024 | abc10.com | Sydney Persing |Jason Trahan

DALLAS — For years, Makayla Thomas prayed for a baby. “I struggled with fertility for a while,” the North Texas woman told WFAA. In February, she and her husband Joe got their wish. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh I’m finally pregnant!’ We’ve been together for 11 years.”  Thomas started documenting milestones on her journey to motherhood, photographing and videotaping her pregnancy tests, sonograms, hospital visits and more.

Aug 30, 2024 | wfaa.com | Jason Trahan

DALLAS — The man accused of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer and wounding two others Thursday night has been identified as a 30-year-old former truck driver whose social media accounts were recently filled with unhinged, apocalyptic and pseudo-religious rants. The suspect, Corey Cobb, lived in a guest house behind his parent's home on Hortense Avenue in southern Dallas, north of Ledbetter Drive and east of South Marsalis Avenue, his father Emery Cobb said.

Apr 18, 2024 | wfaa.com | Jason Trahan

DALLAS — An appeals court has dismissed a disciplinary case against Dallas attorney Sidney Powell in connection with her legal work for former President Donald Trump seeking to overturn the 2020 election. The decision, issued Wednesday by a three-judge panel in Dallas, cites clerical errors in legal filings by lawyers for the State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline in its case against Powell, who has denied wrongdoing.