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The State Fair of Texas delayed its Sunday opening by four hours after three people were wounded in a shooting at the fair the night before — but that didn’t deter the hundreds in attendance. The fair opened at 2 p.m., letting customers back in for the first time since Fair Park was evacuated by Dallas police following Saturday night’s shooting. Attendees began arriving …

WASHINGTON — With his leading rival reporting Sunday that he’s raised only $631,000 so far, Dallas U.S. Rep. Colin Allred has emerged as the runaway favorite of Democratic donors aiming to topple Sen. Ted Cruz. Allred now has nearly a 20-1 edge over state Sen. Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio, who entered the primary months later than Allred. The three-term …

Expect a chilly start to your Monday and Tuesday mornings. Lows across North Texas will range from the mid to upper-40s in Dallas-Fort Worth to the upper-30s to lower/mid-40s in surrounding areas. By Monday afternoon, highs will rise into the upper-60s with plentiful sunshine. It will stay breezy with a north wind of 10 to 15 mph. Temperatures will start …

Outside of Dallas City Hall on Sunday, an “All Out for Palestine” peaceful protest drew more than 1,000 attendees, according to estimates. The crowd began a march through downtown around 1 p.m. that returned to City Hall after roughly an hour. Many attendees carried the red, green, white and black Palestinian flag or wore red and green hijabs, and a …

A person was hospitalized Saturday afternoon after they fell off a State Fair of Texas tram, officials have confirmed. About 3:45 p.m., fair officials were notified that a person had fallen off the tram, said Taylor Austin, a spokesperson for the State Fair of Texas. “First aid responded immediately and determined the person required additional medical attention,” Austin said in …

Authorities are investigating after a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday morning in east Oak Cliff, police said. Shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched to the 2200 block of Harlandale Avenue, near the intersection of South Marsalis and East Illinois avenues, where someone reported a shooting, according to police. Inside a home in the area, responding officers found a …

Texans can now get free at-home HIV tests delivered to their door through the recently expanded Nice Package program from Prism Health North Texas as the state combats rising rates of sexually transmitted infections. The HIV nonprofit launched the Nice Package program in 2020 with funding from the Texas Department of State Health Services to provide free monthly condom deliveries …

If you’re old enough to remember one of America’s greatest sports columnists, Blackie Sherrod, you probably remember when he’d tie several short story ideas together and called it “scattershooting.” In honor of Blackie, who retired from and died in 2016 at age 96, here’s The Watchdog’s version of scattershooting. What’s your property tax bill? Did you know you can now look …

Thousands of Dallas students come to school from homes that speak languages other than English, but a nationwide shortage of bilingual educators has DISD relying on international teachers. Dallas ISD sponsors the largest number of H-1B, or specialty-occupation, visas among public school districts in the United States, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data. In the 2022 fiscal year, …

RAWALPINDI: Four union councils of the garrison city have stopped screening citizens for hepatitis B and C for want of kits with the Punjab’s health facilities. The screening of citizens was launched by Local Hepatitis Elimination and Prevention (LHEAP) programme launched in Rawalpindi district by District Health Authority in collaboration with Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination. The aim of this …