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A man was fatally shot Thursday morning in Mountain Creek, Dallas police said. Officers responded about 7 a.m. to a report of a shooting call at 5700 Duncanville Road, near West Red Bird Lane, and found a man wounded. The man was taken to a hospital, where he died. Police said the victim’s identity had not been determined. Police arrested …

Power stations and other critical infrastructure are being targeted for attacks at an increasing clip across the United States, leaving energy and extremism experts worried about what a potential coordinated assault against the Texas grid might look like. Earlier this week, federal authorities announced the arrests of two members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, accusing them of planning a …

WASHINGTON – Republicans are eager to make the president squirm over the classified documents in his garage, his son’s “laptop from hell” and a host of other topics. The House Oversight Committee has quickly emerged as the main arena, with Texans among the pugilists. They’ll “finally face a reckoning,” said Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Sherman, who’ll chair one of the subcommittees. …

A cold front will move across North Texas tonight. Colder air will filter in behind the front with increasing north winds. Friday will be blustery and colder with highs in the 40s and a north wind gusting to 30 mph. The weekend will be dry and cool with highs in the 50s. Rain chances return by late Monday into Tuesday. …

Sports gambling is illegal under the Texas Penal Code, punishable as a Class C misdemeanor with a maximum fine of up to $500. But there are loopholes, also known as “affirmative defenses to prosecution” under Texas law. In other words, if you get busted by law enforcement, whether it’s for bets between friends or for Super Bowl squares at an office or family …

Richard Acosta Jr. said he didn’t know his 14-year-old son had fatally shot three people at a Garland convenience store seconds earlier when the boy hopped into the back of his truck and told him to drive away. Acosta said he didn’t know his son had a gun. He just heard shots being fired and thought he was doing what …

Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown said there was “no indication” shots were fired at the Dallas County Health and Human Services building after a report of an active shooter Thursday afternoon caused the building to go into lockdown and led to a large law enforcement response. Brown said about 5:15 p.m. that Dallas police had pulled out of the building …

Southlake schools are under more than half a dozen federal investigations over allegations that include racial discrimination, gender and sex discrimination and violating the rights of students with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has at least eight open investigations into the Carroll school district, a department official confirmed Thursday. Southlake school officials did not immediately …

AUSTIN — The Texas Department of Public Safety will not be disciplining any more of its officers over the botched police response to the Uvalde school massacre, agency officials said Thursday. The remaining four officers who had been under review were cleared of wrongdoing, according to communications director Travis Considine, and the department’s internal investigation is now complete. DPS has …

Tough family conversations and more transparency from Carrollton school officials are needed to protect children, speakers said at a meeting discussing the deadly dangers of fentanyl. Three young Carrollton teens are dead and six other students have been hospitalized after overdosing on fentanyl or experiencing fentanyl poisoning, most of them since December, according to court documents. “We can’t lose another …