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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 …

Danyeil Townzen thrust a fist into the air at the back of a Dallas courtroom, using what little sensation she had left in her scarred right hand to celebrate her ex-boyfriend’s judgment day. For setting Danyeil on fire last year and abandoning her at a northeast Dallas apartment, a judge sentenced Matthew Gerth to prison for life — while Danyeil …

Arlington police have made two arrests in last week’s shooting death of a high school student. Juanyea Flynn and Alexander KOnyeador, both 18, each face one count of murder in the death of Anthony Lemelle Strather Jr., an Arlington police spokesman confirmed Thursday morning. Flynn faces an unrelated charge of aggravated robbery, while Onyeador also faces a count of engaging in …

Two people were killed in a shooting at a Fort Worth motel Thursday afternoon. Officers were dispatched to the Motel 6 in the 4200 block of South Freeway, near East Seminary Drive, just before 1 p.m. after a caller reported a shooting in one of the rooms. Police confirmed that two people had been pronounced dead, but no other information …

A fourth former student at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas has filed a lawsuit alleging he was abused by priests when he was a student there. The plaintiff, a Dallas lawyer in his 50s, filed the lawsuit this month against the school and the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, among others, saying he was sexually abused in the early 1980s …

The former Dallas police officers were fired during hearings held Thursday. Three Dallas police officers were fired Thursday after hearings revealed separate cases of misconduct, including misuse of department equipment and driving while intoxicated, police said. Harris was fired after an internal affairs investigation determined he violated the code of conduct while handling calls as a 911 call taker in …

Here are the top political headlines from Austin, Washington, the campaign trail and Dallas. Good morning! Here are the top political headlines from Austin, Washington, the campaign trail and Dallas. Points from Austin 1. After Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen announced he will not seek reelection, Republicans felt a weight lifted off their shoulders. But what will Bonnen’s remaining 14 …

WASHINGTON – East Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert says he knows the identity of the whistleblower who complained about President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine and that “a lot of us in Washington know who it was and know who it is.” Asked point blank Thursday by conservative North Texas radio host Mark Davis if he actually knew the whistleblower’s name, the stalwart …

AUSTIN — Texas Republicans may have found their next socially conservative rallying cry — one that hearkens back to the hotly contested 2017 “bathroom bill” — in a widely publicized custody case centering on the gender identity of a 7-year-old in Dallas. The gut-wrenching personal dispute between two divorced Coppell parents, who disagree on whether their child should transition from male …

SHERMAN – Veteran Austin lawyer Jamie Balagia sat inside the accused cocaine kingpin’s room in a Colombian prison when his investigator suddenly mentioned paying off officials in Washington D.C. to make the man’s charges go away. What did he do? Nothing, according to the government. “You just sat there,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Rattan said Wednesday during Balagia’s federal corruption …