The suspect in a fatal Christmas shooting at a West Dallas car wash is now in custody. Roman Ramirez, 23, was booked into the Dallas County jail on Monday and faces a murder charge in the death of Jose Loera. Officers were called just after 9 p.m. Dec. 25 to John’s Car Wash in the 4600 of Bernal Drive, where Loera, …

Thursday afternoon’s vaccine mega hub at Texas Motor Speedway has been canceled due to the likelihood of inclement weather, Texas Motor Speedway officials said Tuesday. Denton County and TMS have been in contact with the National Weather Service since Monday. With a forecast predicting freezing temperatures and a chance of freezing rain and sleet in the early-morning hours, organizers made …

3 One suspect is in custody and another remains at large after a December slaying near Fair Park. Edward Ray Sims, 35, was arrested on a murder charge Monday in connection with the death of 32-year-old Taboric Lee. Police found Lee suffering from a gunshot wound the afternoon of Dec. 14 in the 1600 block of Caldwell Street, near Haskell and …

A Fort Worth police officer was terminated because of “racially insensitive and inappropriate” posts on the officer’s social media, the police department announced Tuesday. Officer Chadwick Hughes was fired for violating the department’s general orders related to social media use, the department said. Another officer found the posts on Jan. 30, police said, leading to an immediate internal-affairs investigation of …

When Margaret Thompson drove her 88-year-old mother to get her second COVID-19 shot at Dallas County’s Fair Park vaccine site, she expected to be in and out fairly quickly. For the first shot, they were at the South Dallas hub barely half an hour, “including the 15-minute wait time,” Thompson said. On Tuesday, they arrived around 1:30 p.m. but were still waiting …

Dallas County on Tuesday reported 1,303 new coronavirus cases and 30 more deaths from COVID-19. Among the victims were a pregnant Dallas woman in her 20s and an Irving woman in her 30s who had recovered from a case of COVID-19 six months ago but became reinfected. Meanwhile, a Fort Worth boy younger than 10 was among 36 newly reported …

AUSTIN — State leaders and the judge presiding in a Texas foster care lawsuit said Tuesday they’re distressed by a new report in which court-appointed monitors said they found chaos, self-harm and child-on-child sexual activity running rampant in recent months at a private treatment facility in Galveston County. A residential treatment center operated by Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Care in …

Dallas police are investigating after a man was fatally shot in east Oak Cliff. Officers were called about 12:30 p.m. Monday to the 2300 block of South Denley Drive, near East Illinois Avenue and South Lancaster Road, where a man had been shot in the leg. That man, whom police have not identified, died from his injuries Tuesday. Police did …

A suspect was in custody after a man was fatally shot early Tuesday in a neighborhood east of Cedar Ridge Preserve in far southwest Dallas. About 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a call in the 7300 block of Pineberry Road, in The Woods area of Dallas near Mountain Creek Parkway. When officers arrived, they found a man with several …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A lengthy police pursuit ended with a crash near the Heights Tuesday afternoon. When it was all over, authorities took a man into custody who had been on the run for nearly a week. Just after 3 p.m., Harris County deputies were pursuing a suspect vehicle in the vicinity of I-45 and West Mount Houston Road. …