L. P. Phillips

Forty years after his arrest for a crime he never committed, Mallory Nicholson stood before Dallas County State District Court Judge Chika Anyiam. This time it was for the news he wanted to hear. He's been exonerated. "It takes people like you to show the flaw in the criminal justice system. Congratulations." Anyiam said. "And on behalf of the state, the justices, the judiciary, all the players that contributed to this atrocity, I apologize." "Thank you very much, your honor.

A Plano Police officer has been placed on administrative leave after his arrest for domestic violence. Officials say on May 22, Wylie police were called to a report of domestic violence. The man they arrested was Plano Police narcotics officer Zachary Petty. The victim, according to records, is Nichole Sherrard, the widow of murdered Richardson police officer David Sherrard who was killed in February of 2018.

The scathing sexual abuse report within the ranks of the Southern Baptist Convention has put the Prestonwood Baptist Church of Plano in the crosshairs. The audit was done by Guidepost Solutions, which bills itself as a leader in domestic and international investigations says that Prestonwood Baptist Church hired a music pastor in the '80s named John Langworthy who sexually abused at least one teenage boy while in Plano.