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After a chilly morning, temperatures will warm up nicely this afternoon with highs in the mid to upper 60s. A few 70s are even possible south of DFW. A wind shift from the southwest to northwest will occur this afternoon. This north wind will push in some cooler air for Monday, but nothing drastic for January standards. We will be …

On the day Martha Doss became a U.S. citizen in 2017, she couldn’t stop thinking of her mother. “She wanted to desperately be an American,” she said, remembering the woman who brought her and her twin sister from Mexico to the United States when they were children in the mid-1980s. Becoming a citizen meant her mother’s dream of a better …

A DeSoto City Council member’s husband pocketed more than $140,000 in misappropriated public funds when he served as chief of economic development, according to an investigative firm hired by the city to audit his spending. The figure far exceeds previous estimates of improper payments Jeremiah Quarles is alleged to have received before he left his job in late 2016. He …

Tonight will be clear and chilly with lows in the upper 30s. Conditions will be favorable for watching the Quadrantid meteor showers. Get away from city lights and look to the northeast. The weekend will be sunny and mild. Highs will be in the 60s. The quiet weather pattern will last into the first half of next week. Latest Forecast: …

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is joining the board of the general partner that controls Dallas-based pipeline giant Energy Transfer LP. The move puts Perry, who left his post as U.S. Energy Secretary in December, back at the table of one of the biggest pipeline operators in the U.S. Billionaire Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer has made headlines for pursuing large …

The killing occurred in Room 105 — next to the laundry room, a few doors down from the manager’s office. You can tell in which room the shooting occurred because of the trail of dried blood from the room through the parking lot all the way to the sidewalk along Royal Lane. Dallas police say just before sunrise Monday, four people …

Schaston Hodge, who was shot in August by DPS troopers patrolling South Dallas, died with 16 gunshot wounds in his body, according to an autopsy by the Dallas County Medical Examiner. The Dallas Morning News obtained the autopsy Friday. It revealed new details in the fatal August 17, 2019, shooting, which occurred after troopers stopped Hodge for failing to signal a …

In the biggest crime reduction plan during her tenure, Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall outlined some of the key strategies the department is taking on to tackle violent crime in 2020. The new crime-fighting efforts in the department will focus on data-driven policing, increasing clearance rates of violent crime and improving communication and coordination within the department and local …

Police are investigating after a man’s body was found near a Grapevine apartment complex. Officers were called about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday after a resident at the Wildwood Creek apartments in the 800 block of East Dove Loop Road, near Ruth Wall Road, looked out a window and saw the man face down on the ground. Paramedics pronounced the man dead. …

Authorities have made an arrest after an employee was critically wounded during a robbery at a Mesquite store Monday evening. Wesley Gerard Jones(Mesquite Police Department) Officers were called just after 6 p.m. to a shooting at a business in the 3600 block of Gus Thomasson Road, near Town East Boulevard. Police found that an employee had been shot during a …