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After living in her Dallas home for 46 years, Mary Norton decided it was time for a new driveway. “We saved up our money and so we were excited. We needed it and we were excited about getting a new driveway,” she said. Dallas-Based Company Recalls Salad Sold at HEB Norton said a friend referred her to a local contractor who …

A man faces a murder charge after police say he admitted to assaulting a woman who died after she was found with severe head trauma in her central Oak Cliff home Tuesday morning. Officers were called about 6:50 a.m. to a home in the 2100 block of West Illinois Avenue, where 69-year-old Telesfora Saldivar was found sitting on a couch with injuries …

A man armed with a machete was recorded smashing a driver’s windows in a road-rage incident last week on LBJ Freeway, police said. The altercation happened just before 9 a.m. Friday after two cars collided on the interstate in far northeast Dallas, police said. Video obtained by KXAS-TV (NBC5) appeared to show the two vehicles sideswiping each other as the man attempted to move his …

Dallas mayoral candidates Eric Johnson and Scott Griggs continued to spar Tuesday during their second debate about which one can be a consensus builder at City Hall And after the feisty back-and-forth debate, a majority of Griggs’ current colleagues on the City Council — including outgoing Mayor Mike Rawlings — weighed in on the issue, saying they support Johnson. At a news …

Updated at 1:41 p.m. with comment from the original prosecutor in the case, Rick Jackson, who denied withholding evidence and said he believes Stanley Mozee and Dennis Allen are guilty. Stanley Mozee and Dennis Allen waited 19 1/2 years for this moment — for the courts to confirm they were innocent in the stabbing death of a South Dallas minister. Their time finally …

Homicide detectives are investigating a deadly shooting in a Garland neighborhood early Saturday. Officers were called just after 2 a.m. to the 200 block of Rio Rita Drive, where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Police identified the victim as Edgar Mendoza Chico, 44, of Garland. No arrests have been …

Officials in southeast Texas have enhanced charges against a former police cadet in connection with a shooting that wounded three other cadets last month. Police are no longer sure 21-year-old Clayton Whatley accidentally fired his gun during training April 25, according to the Galveston County Daily News. The shooting happened at College of the Mainland Law Enforcement Training Academy in Texas City, about 35 …

A 23-year-old man was arrested Saturday, accused of killing a University of New Mexico baseball player from North Texas. Darian Bashir faces a murder charge in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jackson Weller, a Keller native. Police found Bashir in an apartment Friday night, and arrested him shortly after midnight, officials said. Police said he was caught on surveillance video shooting Weller …

: Revised to include the victim’s identity. Dallas police are investigating after a passerby spotted a man’s body floating in southeast Oak Cliff on Friday afternoon. A water-rescue unit from Dallas Fire-Rescue was sent to the area near Interstate 20 and Bonnie View Road around 3 p.m. after a motorist stuck in traffic saw the body. Authorities found 26-year-old Hilario Lopez Jr. floating face down …

More than 20 years after she was convicted of murdering her young son, a Rowlett woman on death row remains hopeful her conviction will be overturned. Darlie Routier is now 48 years old. She was found guilty of murdering 5-year-old Damon but never tried in the death of her 6-year-old son Devon. DNA evidence in her case is being tested this year, some …