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FORT WORTH — The Tarrant County medical examiner ruled Thursday that the death of a mentally ill man in April who was shocked twice by a Taser stun gun wielded by a Fort Worth police officer was a ...

Tarrant County medical examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani will retire at the end of September, Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley said on Friday morning. Peerwani’s announcement follows a call by the Tarrant ...

Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani in 2009. (file, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) KELLEY CHINN STAR-TELEGRAM/KELLEY CHINN Dr. Nizam Peerwani is leaving the Tarrant County medical examiner job ...

FORT WORTH — No over-the-counter medicines, illegal drugs or alcohol were found in the bodies of three young girls or their mother who hanged them before committing suicide, according to a toxicology ...

Gregory Glenn Biggs apparently lived only hours, not days, after he was struck by a car and left to die lodged in the vehicle’s windshield, the Tarrant County medical examiner said Tuesday. Dr. Nizam ...

With his breathing being helped by a respirator and his kidneys on dialysis, many doctors were uncertain Thomas Eric Duncan would survive Ebola. "More than half the people who contract this disease ...

Tarrant County’s Chief Medical Examiner is retiring at the end of September amid calls for investigations into the office, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported. Dr. Nizam Peerwani, 74, has been with the department ...