The community is mourning Captain Daniel "Danny" Cearley, a 28-year veteran of FWFD, who died after a tragic fall while off-duty.

Texas oilman Solomon Brachman, a founding member of the Fort Worth Petroleum Club, entered the oil business in an unlikely place - Marietta, Ohio, a county seat near the confluence of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In that tri-state region, drillers at the turn of the 20th century produced several hundred barrels of shallow oil a day.

A captain with the Fort Worth Fire Department died recently after three decades of service with the department.

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — A man from Fort Worth was arrested Friday after resisting a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper during a traffic stop in Ellis County, according to DPS.

A Fort Worth Fire Department captain died after a tragic accident resulting from a fall, the department said this week. Capt. Daniel Cearley, 50, served the city for 28 years and was an exemplary firefighter and leader, the department said in a statement on social media.

The Humane Society of North Texas will host an adoption event for several Maltese dogs rescued from an out-of-state animal cruelty case.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has prohibited the owners from operating a different massage establishment at the location for the next 12 months.

A drunken driver who hit and killed a pedestrian in northwest Fort Worth pleaded guilty on Wednesday to intoxication manslaughter. Alexia Lopez, 24, reached an agreement with the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office on a plea bargain.

Downtown Dallas is spiraling — in July 2025, downtown Dallas’ crime score was nine times higher than downtown Fort Worth’s.