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Frisco Independent School District recently unveiled plans for a 1,200-seat Visual and Performing Arts Center, with multipurpose spaces and an art gallery. Renderings were shown to trustees Dec. 11 during the school board’s regular meeting. Dallas architect Corgan is designing the project. The VPAC, approved by voters via a 2018 bond election, will create a collaborative space for events and competitions …

Two teenagers were fatally shot Saturday evening in Mountain Creek, Dallas police said. Officers were dispatched about 5:20 p.m. to the 6100 block of Mountain Creek Parkway, near Eagle Ford Drive, where they found two teens with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle. A 15-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, and a 16-year-old was taken to a hospital and later …

A 24-year-old man was fatally shot during a break-in in Pleasant Grove Saturday afternoon, Dallas police say. Officers were dispatched about 2:40 p.m. to an apartment complex in the 440 block of South St. Augustine Drive, near Silver Falls Boulevard, where they found Juvenal Antero had been shot. Dallas Fire-Rescue responded and took Antero to a hospital, where he died …

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris released statements after the death of Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who died Sunday at the age of 89. Former U.S. Rep. Johnson, who spent decades as North Texas’ most powerful Democrat, endorsed Biden for president in 2019, and joined an early vote rally in Fair Park in Oct. 2020. President Biden’s statement, in …

Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a trailblazing Black woman who spent decades as North Texas’ most powerful Democrat, allowing her to leave a generational impact on the region’s development, died Sunday. She was 89. Dallas Mayor Eric L. Johnson posted about her death on social media, and a source close to the family confirmed it with. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s son, Dawrence …

Two 14-year-old boys were shot, one fatally, in Oak Lawn earlier this week, Dallas police say. Officers responded about 4:40 a.m. Friday to the 3100 block of Harry Hines Boulevard, near Ivan Street, where they found two teens suffering gunshot wounds. According to police, one of the teens died of his injuries Sunday. The second teen is expected to recover. …

Thanks to a cold front, expect a cold start to your New Year’s Day with lows into the upper-20s to mid-30s. Temperatures on Monday afternoon will slowly climb into the upper-40s to lower-50s with sunshine. The average high at this time of year is 56. Highs will remain in the 50s for the week ahead. A series of disturbances will …

It’s hard to speak about her in the past tense. She is ever present. Retired Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was meticulous in her thoughts, words and actions. As she approached 30 years of serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and pondered retirement, I listened to her — very intently. Over the many years I covered her as a journalist, …

A man accused in a fatal New Year’s Day shooting in Arlington was found not guilty in his murder trial earlier this month. A Tarrant County jury delivered the verdict on December 6, according to court records, finding 31-year-old Antonio Garcia not guilty of murder in the fatal 2020 shooting of Cedric Dawkins, who was 29 when he died. Garcia …

A woman working at an Arlington shopping center was killed Friday morning during an attempted robbery, police say, and they are searching for the suspect. Arlington police responded about 10 a.m. to a shopping center in the 6500 block of New York Avenue, near Southeast Parkway, after a passerby reported seeing a woman engaged in “some type of physical struggle” …