AUSTIN — University of Texas at Austin students hosted a sit-in Wednesday morning demanding more accountability and transparency from university leaders about professors who have engaged in sexual misconduct. Crowding the hall outside of the office for the university’s executive vice president and provost, students chanted, “When women are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back.” This …

ATLANTA—Making a breakthrough is always the goal at a presidential debate. For 10 rivals gathered in Atlanta on Wednesday night, that goal had new meaning. A day of blockbuster revelations in the impeachment hearings overshadowed the party’s fifth prime time primary skirmish, with rivals eager to unleash the toughest, most caustic denunciation. “We have a criminal in the White House,” …

A 43-year-old man died and another was taken into custody after a shooting at a Lake Highlands convenience store Tuesday, Dallas police said. Erick Blakely was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died later after a shooting that occurred around 5:15 p.m. in the 8100 block of Forest Lane, police said. Devonte Miles was arrested early Wednesday morning …

Dallas police are investigating the death of a 44-year-old man who was found with gunshot wounds Tuesday in the Cedars neighborhood of South Dallas. Rodney Lyons was found around 8 p.m. in the 1200 block of South Lamar Street at the South Side Flats, the apartment complex where Dallas police Officer Amber Guyer fatally shot Botham Jean on Sept. 6, …

Patricia Gomez Risner was not a drug dealer or in any way mixed up in Colombia’s violent drug trade. So it seemed odd when the 36-year-old Parkland hospital burn unit nurse was assassinated by hired killers in 1990 as she strolled along a Colombian beach with her mother. A Colombian court in 1994 convicted her husband, Tito Jay Risner, of planning the …

Authorities have made a second arrest in connection with the stabbing death of a young mother whose body was found along Denton Creek this month. Tanner Lane Brock, Kyrstin Danea Ross(Denton County Sheriff’s Office) The Denton County Sheriff’s Department obtained a murder warrant for Kyrstin Danea Ross, 27, on Friday and took her into custody early Sunday in the Wise …

One man was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in far northeast Dallas, police said, and the suspect remains at large. Officers responded about 12:30 p.m. to the 12100 block of Abrams Road, north of Interstate 635 and Forest Lane, where they found James Burks, 33, fatally shot. He died at the scene. Witnesses told police that a group of men …

Frisco police are investigating the death of a driver who crashed late Friday into a creek just north of Preston Road and Eldorado Parkway. Officers and the fire department were called to the crash scene around 10:45 p.m. Friday, police said. They found a vehicle upside down in the creek. Officers freed the man inside the vehicle and he was …

Plano police are looking for a second murder suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Allen High School student on Saturday. Plano police have issued a murder warrant for Christian Treyshun Hill, 18, in connection with the fatal shooting of Allen High student Marquel Ellis Jr. on Nov. 16, 2019.(Plano Police Department) Authorities said Wednesday evening that …

WASHINGTON – Gordon Sondland, the top U.S. diplomat in Europe, testified Wednesday that President Donald Trump conditioned a White House visit for Ukraine’s president on that country announcing investigations into Trump’s political rivals. Those terms were “no secret” among top figures in the Trump administration, including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sondland said. “I know that members of this committee have …