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he Tarrant County Commissioners Court unanimously approved an agreement to extend Nizam Peerwani’s service as medical examiner through Dec. 31. Rodger Mallison [email protected] The Tarrant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Rick Perry on Monday appointed Tarrant County Medical Examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani to the Texas Forensic Science Commission, replacing a previous appointment who resigned rather than make public ...

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 ...