Dallas County Medical Examiner

Dallas County did not accept Andra Adkins until after Parkland Hospital staff deemed him medically fit for detainment. He died hours later.

Dallas County Chief Medical Examiner Jeffrey Barnard retired last week after 37 years with the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences.

Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Jessica Dwyer will take over as director of Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences and become chief medical examiner.

Jeffrey Barnard, Dallas County chief medical examiner and forensics lab director, plans to retire Nov. 1.

Dallas and Fort Worth school districts are steadily announcing campus reopenings, even as temperatures remain near or below freezing across North Texas.

The Dallas County is auctioning off property from the Dallas County medical examiner's office unclaimed by next of kin.