Authorities in Tarrant County are in a SWAT standoff with an armed person who is refusing to exit their home, according to police. Around 4:20 p.m. Thursday, officers from the Pantego Police Department and Tarrant County Sheriff’s deputies tried to serve a warrant to a resident in a neighborhood in Pantego, a small Tarrant County town that is almost entirely surrounded by Arlington, …

The man accused of fatally shooting a Dallas Koreatown bar owner earlier this week was charged with assault in a similar incident in 2015 involving a Korean restaurant that refused to sell him alcohol, court records show. Shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to a shooting call in the 2500 block of Royal Lane. Officers found a woman, identified as …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An 18-year-old man has been charged with the brutal death of his ex-girlfriend. In March, a woman was found dead in her bed in the Golfcrest area with a stab wound to her neck. The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office identified her as 18-year-old Delmy Morales. Morales’ family said she had a 7-month-old daughter with the man …

NBC’s Dateline will examine the story behind the death of Jonathan Crews, a Coppell man who was fatally shot in his apartment in 2014. A Dallas County jury decided in a three-day civil trial on Sept. 23 that Brenda Kelly, Crews’ former girlfriend, was responsible for his death and awarded the Crews family $206 million in damages. At the time of the civil trial, …

MEXICO CITY — Two rival criminal groups that have cornered the deadly fentanyl market have done so largely with ingenuity and the latest technology, say current and former Mexican and U.S. law enforcement authorities. The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels have evolved into high-tech geeks, relying on savvy business skills, encrypted communication gadgets and social media to recruit dealers to peddle …

AUSTIN — Standing in front of dozens of parents holding photographs of their kids who died from fentanyl, Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced a multimillion dollar statewide campaign to battle the opioid drug in Texas. The $10 million media push aims to educate Texans on how to prevent fentanyl overdoses and recognize them. The new effort also includes the distribution …

Easter is right around the corner, and for once Texans blend in with the crowd — at least when it comes to their candy preference for the holiday. In Texas, Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs are the bestselling candy along with most of the country, according to poll results from grocery-delivery app Instacart. The Harris Poll surveyed around 2,000 American adults …

WASHINGTON – A White House report on the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan faulted Donald Trump for leaving President Joe Biden few options – a finding that House Foreign Affairs chair Michael McCaul slammed as a “disgraceful” effort to shift blame. The National Security Council released a 12-page summary of the after-action report on Thursday, after submitting a far more detailed …

AUSTIN — Texas House members voted Thursday to prohibit any use of state funds in the next two years for school voucher-like efforts that would send taxpayer dollars to private schools. In a session in which “parental empowerment” is the mantra of top GOP leaders, 24 House Republicans joined virtually every Democrat in the chamber to approve a budget provision …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Harris County Sheriff’s Office officials are investigating a shooting inside a car that left one teen dead in north Harris County on Wednesday evening. Deputies were called at about 6:42 p.m. to the 15300 block of Ella Boulevard and North Forest Boulevard at an intersection and found a Hispanic teen dead inside the backseat of a …