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WASHINGTON — Baseball fans jeered President Donald Trump when he was introduced at Game 5 of the World Series, and many chanted “Lock him up!” The president and first lady Melania Trump brought along a dozen Republican lawmakers, including four Texans. They arrived without fanfare but when the president was introduced in the fourth inning, cheers were drowned out by …

At the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Candice Quarles stood in line with her husband, Jeremiah, around the time he pulled out his city of DeSoto credit card to buy barbecue. At Disney World, she tweeted from the theme park on the same day he charged still more personal meals to taxpayers. “We came. We ate. We stood in …

A woman was arrested on a drunken driving charge early Saturday after she hit a police car, parked with its overhead lights flashing, in Old East Dallas. Melissa Mejia faces a charge of driving while intoxicated.(Dallas County Jail) Officers were sitting in the squad car about 2:15 a.m. waiting for a tow truck to take another vehicle away when a …

Homicide detectives are investigating a deadly shooting late Friday in southeast Fort Worth, police said. The shooting was reported about 9:30 p.m. in a neighborhood along Burton Avenue, off East Berry Street near Cobb Park. The victim was found dead in a vehicle parked outside a home, police spokesman Brad Perez said. His name has yet to be released. A …

Voters have begun the process of picking a successor to Eric Johnson, who left the Texas Legislature to become Dallas mayor. But turnout in Dallas’ House District 100, where Johnson served for nearly 10 years, is expected to be light, as residents select between three contenders trying to win their first elected office and a former Dallas council member and …

This report is being continuously updated. Two people died after at least 12 people were shot about midnight Saturday at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party near Greenville. Four other people were injured, but Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks did not detail their injuries. He did say some people had been hurt by broken glass as they tried to escape. …

Being interrogated for 10 hours and wrongfully arrested for murder still haunts Anderson Jones. Tears well up in his eyes as he describes the three weeks he spent in Dallas County Jail in 2015. “The last thing I wanted was to be sitting in jail 20 or 30 years for a crime I did not commit,” Jones said in an …

Dallas businessman Will Douglas is challenging incumbent Democrat Rhetta Bowers in Texas House District 113, one of several seats that Republicans hope to recapture in 2020. “The voters of House District 113 are hard-working Texans, seeking their piece of the American Dream,” Douglas wrote this week after launching his campaign. “My whole life, I’ve been after the same thing.” Douglas, …

Voters have begun the process of picking a successor to Eric Johnson, who left the Texas Legislature to become Dallas mayor. But turnout in Dallas’ House District 100, where Johnson served for nearly 10 years, is expected to be light, as residents select between three contenders trying to win their first elected office and a former Dallas council member and …

Cloudy skies and pockets of drizzle will give way to sunshine later this afternoon with highs in the 60s. Sunday will be quite pleasant and warmer with afternoon temperatures in the 70s. A couple of cold fronts will bring a return of chilly, wet weather next Tuesday and Wednesday. Although precipitation will mostly be in the form of rain, isolated …