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WASHINGTON – It’s an axiom in politics that if you don’t want to get razzed for hanging with rich donors, don’t serve them $900 bottles of wine in a cave. Maybe that’s a bit of a paraphrase. In any case, Pete Buttigieg – or “wine cave Pete” as rivals dubbed him after a recent Napa fund-raiser – wasn’t about to …

A teenage girl has accused the CEO of the company that owns the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show of sexually assaulting her on three separate occasions a decade ago, according to details from an arrest warrant affidavit. George Laughlin, the 51-year-old CEO of YEA Networks, is charged with continuous sexual abuse of a young child, but he denies any abuse occurred. He turned himself …

Andrew Hillman, a mastermind of health care kickback schemes in Dallas, is headed to prison for a handful of years. But his extensive cooperation with federal investigators over the past 17 months will continue to be felt in the North Texas medical industry, which has become one of the nation’s hotspots for fraud. Already, additional criminal cases have sprouted from …

The driver of a vehicle involved in a minor crash was stabbed by someone in another vehicle Friday morning in northwest Dallas, police said. The stabbing occurred around 3:15 a.m. after a wreck at a convenience store in the 9900 block of Marsh Lane. According to police, someone who was in the second vehicle involved in the crash got out …

WASHINGTON — As the House of Representatives moved to impeach a president for the third time, McKinney resident Michael Rich, 64, took time from a family vacation in the nation’s capital to witness what he called a “sad day of total partisanship.” Rich waited in line for an opportunity to sit in the House gallery as lawmakers debated the articles …

NEW ORLEANS — The “individual mandate” of former President Barack Obama’s health care law is invalid, but other parts of the law need further review, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 2-1 ruling handed down by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans largely sidestepped what happens to some of the most popular …

WASHINGTON – The outcome of the House impeachment debate Wednesday wasn’t in doubt, but that didn’t make it any less historic. House Republicans stuck by President Donald Trump. But Democrats had more than enough votes to formally accuse him of abusing his office in a scheme to coerce Ukraine to tarnish a political rival, then stonewall Congress by withholding documents …

WASHINGTON — Texas GOP Rep. Michael Cloud briefly broke the internet during Wednesday’s vote to impeach President Donald Trump when he became the only Republican to vote in favor of the first article of impeachment — a clerical error that was quickly fixed. “Obviously, it was a mistake,” said Cloud, a freshman from Victoria. “I didn’t see it because I …

WASHINGTON – Wednesday was a momentous day in American history. Some observations after a long day in Seat #4 of the press gallery, front row and to the right as you view the Speaker’s dais, on tribalism, shame and sarcasm. 1. Tribalism may be the most powerful force in the universe, even more than compound interest. The physical segregation by party …

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 …