Dallas police have made an arrest eight months after a man was found shot to death in a north Oak Cliff apartment. Dorian Markal Killebrew(Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) Dorian Markal Killebrew, 19, was booked into the Dallas County jail on Tuesday on a murder charge. His bail was set at $250,000. Officers responding to an active-shooter call about 4:30 a.m. April …

A Grand Prairie woman was arrested after police say she killed her brother Tuesday night. Abigail Contreras(Grand Prairie Police Department) Abigail Contreras, 20, faces a murder charge. She was being held in the Grand Prairie jail on Wednesday, with bail set at $200,000. Officers were called about 9 p.m. Tuesday to an emergency room at West Jefferson Street and South …

Police in Hurst are looking for a woman they say tried to snatch a child at a store. Officers were called about 3 p.m. Tuesday to the Target in the 1400 block of Precinct Line Road, near State Highway 183, after an attempted abduction was reported. Police said a couple had been shopping with their 1-year-old daughter, who was in …

The CEO of the company that owns the nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick Morning Show has been accused of sexually abusing a child, according to his attorney. George Laughlin, 51, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child. He bonded out the same day. George Laughlin(Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) The allegation was reported in July, …

One bystander is dead and two others wounded after two passing cars engaged in crossfire near a convenience store gas station in southeast Oak Cliff Wednesday evening. The incident took place about 7:38 p.m. at Simpson Stuart and Bonnie View roads, where the victims were all standing near or sitting in their vehicles, police said. Investigators believe that two dark-colored …

  KARACHI: After an unprecedented run up, the bulls were stopped in their tracks on Wednesday as investors decided to book profit in exercise of caution. Investors were nervous over the political developments a day earlier where the death sentence handed to former President Musharraf was met with some sharp rebuke from important quarters. The KSE-100 index closed down by …

  KARACHI: Continuing its consistent fall for the sixth year in row, the country’s cotton output in the ongoing season is set to hit record low at 8.5 million bales. Production data released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) on Wednesday rev­e­aled that the country is likely to face a shortfall of around 2.1m bales. Cotton analysts firmly believe …

SRINAGAR: A lockdown in India-held Kashmir has cost its economy more than $2.4 billion since the Modi government stripped it of its special status, officials of the Himalayan region’s main trade organisation said on Wednesday. “In the last 120 days we have witnessed how each and every sector has bled … we fear this crisis will further intensify in 2020,” …

ISLAMABAD: The country’s large-scale manufacturing (LSM) shrank for seventh month in row raising fears of massive layoffs across the industrial sector. The LSM Index contracted by 7.97 per cent year-on-year in October, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Wednesday. The data further showed that between July to October, big industry output declined by 6.48pc on a year-on-year basis. …

ISLAMABAD: The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Zone-I, Islamabad, has formally initiated an investigation into a high-profile case involving 125,000 kanals of land and seven bank accounts registered in the name of a company. The Benami assets so far identified, and provisionally attached, have a market value of Rs15-20 billion. Official documents seen by Dawn reveal that a show-cause notice was issued on Tuesday …