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Border patrol officers were at W.H. Adamson High School this week to promote careers in the law enforcement agency, not to investigate families, Dallas school officials say. Representatives from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection participated in a campus job fair on Wednesday along with about three dozen other organizations. But some students were upset by their presence and began …

The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved spending $60 million on emergency costs after October’s tornado tore through parts of North Dallas and caused severe damage to city infrastructure. Staffers on Wednesday briefed elected officials on Dallas’ response in the days since the storm hit on Oct. 20 and on repair costs Dallas faces in coming months. Chief Financial Officer …

WASHINGTON — Not everything is bigger in Texas. But San Antonio is certainly a whole lot bigger than South Bend, Indiana. On a late night comedy show Wednesday, Julián Castro — former mayor of the Alamo City and a housing secretary in the Obama cabinet— let loose his frustration at being overshadowed by Pete Buttigieg, mayor of a city with …

An Arlington man has been found guilty of beheading his roommate and killing the man’s girlfriend in a gruesome 2017 double slaying. Hector Acosta-Ojeda(Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department) A Tarrant County jury convicted Hector Acosta-Ojeda, 30, of capital murder Tuesday after deliberating for more than five hours. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, and the trial’s punishment phase began Acosta-Ojeda, who …

Three men were wounded and a suspect was still at large after a shooting at a Burleson home Wednesday morning, police said. The shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. in the 100 block of Northeast Timber Ridge Drive, police said. The victims, whose names haven’t been released, were among five in the home and are 21, 27 and 28 years old, …

A pair of ATM thieves used a pickup early Wednesday to tear a cash machine out of a downtown Dallas 7-Eleven, police said. The smash-and-grab was reported about 3 a.m. at the 24-hour convenience store in the 2000 block of Commerce Street, authorities said. The 7-Eleven was open at the time of the robbery and remained open Wednesday.(Michael Hamtil / …

Dallas Cowboys lineman Daniel Ross was arrested Wednesday morning after Frisco police found him with marijuana and a gun during a traffic stop, authorities said. Ross, 26, faces charges of possession of marijuana and unlawfully carrying a weapon, Frisco police spokesman Evan Mattei said. He did not disclose details about the traffic stop that led to the arrest. Cowboys officials …

The former Arlington police officer who shot and killed a man who drove away in the middle of a traffic stop last year was cited several times for violating department policies, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Bau Tran was indicted in May on a charge of criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting a man in late 2018.(Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office) Bau Tran, …

The personnel file for former Fort Worth police Officer Aaron Dean, who resigned after he fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson in her home last month, sheds light on his training and background, including a misdemeanor assault charge. Fort Worth police released hundreds of pages of records and a 17-minute video from Dean’s job interview in response to a request from The Dallas …

Dwaine Caraway, an inmate of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for the past six months, is now in the Dallas County jail for reasons that remain unclear. Even the U.S. attorney’s office was unaware of the move until Caraway was in his new cell. In May, the former Dallas mayor pro tem reported to Big Spring in West Texas, home of …