The Federal Trade Commission wants to block the sale of five Utah hospitals owned by Dallas-based Steward Health Care to its competitor HCA Healthcare, the parent company of Medical City. The commission unanimously voted Thursday to seek a federal court injunction halting the deal. The regulatory agency contends the deal will diminish health care choices in a region around Salt Lake City where about …

Three more students slain in the Robb Elementary school mass shooting were laid to rest in Uvalde on Thursday. Ten-year-olds Elijah Torres and Nevaeh Bravo and 11-year-old Maranda Mathis were three of 21 students and teachers killed last week by an 18-year-old gunman. Services for the victims began Tuesday and are scheduled through mid-June. Elijah Torres Elijah’s service was held …

A former North Texas country radio host who pleaded guilty earlier this year to the sexual assault of a teenager pleaded no contest this week to an indecent assault charge in Denton County. Justin Barrett Frazell, 48, entered the plea Wednesday to the misdemeanor charge, which stemmed from an incident in December 2020. He was sentenced to 18 months of …

AUSTIN — The narrative surrounding the Uvalde school shooting continued to evolve Thursday with new information emerging that police inside the building were not aware of 911 calls coming from children locked in a classroom with an 18-year-old gunman. That included Uvalde schools police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the incident commander during the shooting. Previous police accounts said Arredondo was aware of the …

Officials in Central Texas said late Thursday that an escaped inmate serving a life sentence for murder was dead. The Leon County Sheriff’s Office, located about halfway between Dallas and Houston, announced about 10:30 p.m. that Gonzalo Lopez was “captured & deceased.” Additional details were not immediately available. Authorities had released additional information hours earlier about the search for Lopez, …

Rain and scattered thunderstorm chances are in the forecast once again today. Today’s rain chances for DFW are dependent on a storm complex out in West Texas. This batch of rain and storms is moving eastward and will likely weaken somewhat. However, there’s a decent chance they make it to the Dallas – Fort Worth area around midday. Storms are …

On one of my last walks through Prague — as an exhilarating but emotionally demanding Central European vacation came to a close — I stopped to watch a gaggle of adults dropping off their young children for the school day. With the tragedy of the 19 children and two teachers gunned down in Uvalde still raw, the Czech Republic families’ …

Garland officers killed a man who fatally shot a bail bondsman Thursday evening, police said. Officers were called about 7:30 p.m. to a motel in the 6200 block of Broadway Boulevard, near Interstate 30, where employees of a bail bond company were serving a warrant for multiple accounts of sexual assault of a child. One of the bondsmen was shot …

HOUSTON, Texas — Houston is a bona-fide car town, but how does it rank for biking? A new survey on bikeability gives Houston a fairly decent – and somewhat surprising – ranking for that cycling life. In a list of the top 50 cities in the U.S., Houston ranks No. 29 and boasts a bikeability score of 49. Drilling down, …

HOUSTON, Texas — By all indications, it’s going to be a scorching summer in Texas. The best way to beat the heat is by floating in a brightly colored plastic tube around a fake German castle on a lazy river, or being propelled through a tube chute at 20 miles per hour into a refreshing pool of blue water. Luckily …