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Educators, education leaders and advocates met Wednesday to discuss ways to rethink the design of what a school is and learn from campuses that are already implementing innovative approaches. Transcend, a national education advocacy nonprofit, hosted the Texas Innovation Summit in Dallas to foster conversations on how to improve students’ experiences. “The [school model] that’s been around for hundreds of …

Take note, amateur astronomers: The final supermoon of 2023 will rise over Texas on Friday. September’s full moon, known as the harvest moon, rises the Friday evening and will appear bigger and brighter than usual. It should reach peak illumination shortly before 5 a.m. Here’s what you need to know: What is a supermoon? A supermoon occurs when the moon’s …

Authorities are looking for the driver involved in a fatal auto-pedestrian crash last week in McKinney, police said. On Friday evening, officers were dispatched to the intersection of the Sam Rayburn Tollway frontage road and Alma Road, near Grand Ranch Parkway, where someone reported a collision between a vehicle and pedestrian, police said. The crash is believed to have occurred about …

A man was found dead Monday afternoon inside of an apartment in north Oak Cliff, police said. About 4:15 p.m., officers were called to the 200 block of South Lancaster Avenue, near the intersection of South Marsalis Avenue and East 11th Street, police said. Responding officers found the body of a man, identified by police as 51-year-old Paul Wright, according to …

Longer lines at airports, missed paychecks, shuttered national parks and delayed economic data — those are some of the potential impacts of a looming federal government shutdown. Barring a breakthrough, federal funding will lapse at midnight on Sept. 30. Not all services would abruptly stop. Medicare payments and efforts to safeguard nuclear weapons would be unaffected. You’d likely still get …

A skunk found last week in Grapevine tested positive for rabies — the second wild animal to test positive for the virus in the city within a month. Grapevine police said that an “ill-appearing” skunk was found Thursday in a residential area near Dove Road and Tumbleweed Trial, off of State Highway 114 in the northwestern part of the city. …

AUSTIN — Officials in the comptroller’s office told Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday that he should sue the state accountant if he wants about $50,000 in back pay. Paxton was suspended without pay for nearly four months while the articles of impeachment were pending. He was reinstated after the Texas Senate acquitted him of all charges on Sept. …

Residents in at least two Collin County cities found racism-filled flyers in their neighborhoods over the weekend. Todd Rice, a spokesman for the town of Prosper, said residents of La Cima subdivision alerted police about “hateful and divisive” materials they found Saturday. “The Town of Prosper detests the abhorrent content of these materials, and the Prosper Police Department will continue …

Authorities are asking for the public’s help finding a motorist that hit a pedestrian in South Dallas over the weekend. Shortly after 9:30 p.m. Saturday, officers were called to the scene of a hit-and-run in the 3300 block of South Malcolm X Boulevard. Investigators learned that a maroon SUV struck into a man who was crossing the street, according to …

Whether four Dallas police officers are responsible for the death of a man in their custody is now in the hands of an eight-person civil jury. Jurors must decide if Officer Dustin Dillard used excessive force and violated Tony Timpa’s constitutional rights when he knelt on his back for about 14 minutes on Aug. 10, 2016, after responding to the …