HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — We’ve got a weekend of fantastic weather ahead! Saturday will look and feel similar to Friday. Temperatures are starting out in the mid 50s this morning and will warm into the low 80s under a mostly sunny sky. You’ll really notice the humidity kick up a notch Sunday as a stronger Gulf breeze develops ahead of …

As former Vice President Joe Biden pulled ahead in key battleground states on Friday, Texas Democrats cheered the counting of all votes while President Donald Trump’s GOP allies stayed by his side and cast doubt on the outcome of the elections. “In this democracy, the people decide the outcome of elections — not just when powers that be approve of …

Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall is working to make her successor’s transition go smoothly as the city’s next top cop will face internal challenges and external calls for reform invigorated by the social justice movement. In a meeting with The Dallas Morning News editorial board on Friday, Hall said that the new chief would probably face internal issues such as …

Dallas County on Friday reported 1,269 more coronavirus cases Friday, all them considered new. Two new COVID-19 deaths were also reported. The latest victims were a Dallas woman in her 50s and a Dallas man in his 60s who lived at a long-term care facility. Both had underlying high-risk health conditions. County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement …

Edwin “Ed” Lockridge Cox Sr. started working in the oilfields while still in high school, a quite different setting than the Southern Methodist University campus that would one day have a school in his name. Cox would work his way up from a roustabout and roughneck to eventually leading an oil and gas company as well as other notable businesses. …

Eva Arechiga, a McAllen retiree, started small on the Fourth of July weekend with a red-white-and-blue car rally for the incumbent President Donald Trump. Then the cruising caravan of Trump supporters, known as the RGV Trump Train, mushroomed through the Rio Grande Valley with trucks, Corvettes and big rigs. The simple goal: Pump up Trump votes with a grassroots approach. …

The victim of a fatal shooting was found inside his vehicle early Sunday in Pleasant Grove, Dallas police say. Officers were called about 12:45 a.m. to a Texaco gas station in the 6800 block of Lake June Road, near North Jim Miller Road, where the body was discovered. Police later identified the victim as 35-year-old Roderick Shine. Video from the …

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic. Two senior administration officials confirmed Friday that Meadows had tested positive for the virus, which has killed more than 236,000 Americans so far this year. They offered no details on when the …

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden, on the cusp of winning the White House on Friday night after overtaking President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia, touted his record-breaking vote haul as evidence of a solid mandate and an irrefutable if still impending victory. Trump had signaled that he won’t readily concede, and stuck by baseless claims that the election was being …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …