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A 30-year-old man died Thursday night after a fight along LBJ Freeway, and Dallas police are searching for a suspect. Officers found Jonathan Nchekwube lying in the freeway near Royal Lane at about 6 p.m., police said. He later died at a hospital. There was no information about what the fight was about, and his cause of death was not …

A Dallas police officer was arrested early Friday morning on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Officer Jordan Brown, 31, was booked into the Dallas County jail just before 4:30 a.m., records show. His bail had yet to be set. The details of what led to his arrest were not released. Brown has been with the Dallas police since May …

A woman from Grand Prairie was arrested by the Secret Service on Thursday morning after she tried to drive into the White House grounds, authorities said. Joy Ihuoma Utokanandu, 42, was stopped shortly after she attempted to follow another vehicle past a checkpoint into the complex, the U.S. Secret Service said. Several surrounding streets were closed while D.C. police and …

A Red Oak man was sentenced to 80 years in prison for raping a teenage girl repeatedly after getting her drunk. Eric Shane Harris, 36, was convicted Thursday in an Ellis County courtroom on four counts of sexual assault of a child, according to the district attorney’s office. Erik Shane Harris(Ellis County Jail) Harris was sentenced to 20 years in …

Two teens were arrested after police said they shot into a car during an argument at a Chick-fil-A in west Oak Cliff on Friday. The shooting happened shortly before noon at the restaurant in the 1500 block of North Cockrell Hill Road, police said. Two groups were in separate vehicles when an argument escalated and someone in one car pulled …

A former Irving ISD dean has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for abusing teen boys when he was a grad student at Baylor University Shawn Douglas Risener, who one prosecutor characterized as a “dedicated pedophile hiding in plain sight,” will have to serve half that sentence before seeking parole, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported. After jurors in Waco’s 19th State District …

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, …