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A 59-year-old man has been arrested on a murder charge as Hood County investigators try to determine whether a body they found is his wife, who has been missing since October, Edward Michael Pautenis(Hood County Sheriff’s Office) Edward Michael Pautenis was arrested Wednesday in the 2100 block of Ruth Smith Drive in Granbury and has been charged with murder and …

A Dallas police officer was hospitalized after a crash Thursday afternoon on Central Expressway, police said. Officers were assisting a stranded driver when another driver “took faulty evasive action,” hitting one of the marked squad cars, police said. An officer was inside the car when it was hit. Police said the crash occurred about 1:30 p.m. near the Lovers Lane …

In court documents filed Wednesday by federal prosecutors, statements by former Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis explain quite clearly how council members and candidates could skirt campaign finance laws — and avoid the FBI. The filing comes nine months after Davis pleaded guilty to pocketing $40,000 in bribes from an affordable housing developer — and five months after she and her daughter …

Watchdog, I need a big favor. Please stop all the illegal robocalls hitting my cellphone. What? You think I’m Superman? Just tell me how to stop them, OK? Since you brought it up, there are a few important developments. One is a significant vote this week in Congress. Another involves an end-of-year, government-imposed deadline. And a third is a tactic …

Good morning! Here are the top political headlines from Austin, Washington, the campaign trail and Dallas. If you’d like to receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Points from Austin 1. Texas lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday over the rise of vaping devices among youth and the lack of federal and state regulation, despite a new law that raised …

  WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee opened a new chapter in impeachment on Wednesday, at a contentious hearing featuring legal scholars tutoring lawmakers on standards for corruption and abuse of power that would merit removal from office. “It does not matter that President Trump got caught and ultimately released the funds that Ukraine so desperately needed. It matters that …

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. ’’Our democracy is what is at stake,” Pelosi said. “The president leaves us no choice but to act.” Pelosi delivered the announcement as Democrats push toward a vote, possibly by Christmas. She said she was authorizing the …

Tow truck driver Zach Johnson had been on the job only three weeks before he was killed trying to repossess a car early Monday morning in Lake Dallas. “A $500 car. It was literally a 2003 Nissan model car,” Texas Auto Towing Service owner Joe Baker told KXAS-TV (NBC5). Johnson, 24, was killed around 1 a.m. while he was repossessing …

Burleson police are asking for the public’s help identifying three purse-snatchers who used a stun gun to rob a 71-year-old woman last week. The victim was leaving her car about 9:45 a.m. Nov. 27 when two women approached her in the parking lot of a Ross store on Interstate 35W. They shocked her and took her purse before fleeing in …

Two phone thieves are on the run after robbing a T-Mobile store in Wylie on Monday evening. Security camera images of two suspects who police say robbed a T-Mobile store in Wylie.(Wylie Police Department) Officers responded just after 8 p.m. to a robbery call at the store in the 400 block of South State Highway 78, where they were told …