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EL PASO – Disinformation about “open border” policies is helping spur a massive wave of Central American migrants to take the perilous journey north to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a poll by America’s Voice, a national advocacy group pushing for immigration reform. The poll, obtained by The Dallas Morning News, indicates many Central American residents are encouraged to travel up …

Dallas police are investigating a 46-year-old woman’s death as a homicide a day after officers found her dead in an apartment downtown. Officers responded a little after 1 p.m. Monday to the 1400 block of Elm Street where they found Jenean Chapman dead. On Tuesday, police said in a news release the Dallas County medical examiner’s office ruled Chapman’s death …

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has decided to launch a ‘crackdown’ against spurious medicines.  Sources said the National Task Force has finalsied homework for the countrywide crackdown against the sale of fake medicines. Provincial DRAP offices have been issued directives for the crackdown. It emerged that raids would be conducted in the medicines markets of Karachi, Hyderabad, …

Allen native Patrick Crusius, the shooter who killed 23 in a 2019 attack targeting Hispanic people at a Walmart in El Paso, has agreed to pay over $5 million to victims and their families. The Associated Press reports Crusius, 25, will pay $5,557,005.55 in restitution according to a court motion granted and signed by U.S. Federal District Judge David C. Guaderrama. Crusius pleaded …

AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants back pay for the nearly four months he was sidelined by impeachment. Paxton’s first assistant deputy attorney general sent a letter to Comptroller Glenn Hegar demanding back pay for his boss, who the Texas Senate cleared of all articles of impeachment on Sept. 16. The acquittal paved the way for Paxton’s reinstatement. “[T]his office is …

Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in North Dallas is planning a $60 million expansion and renovation project, the church announced in a press release today. The church has launched a capital campaign to fund the project and said it has already raised 89% of its goal through member donations. Renovations will be made to the main sanctuary and …

Sen. John Cornyn wears a gray rubber bracelet under the cuff of his dress shirt. It is inscribed with angel wings and the adage, “One Pill Can Kill.” It was given to him by Ryan Vaughn, whose daughter Sienna died from fentanyl poisoning this year. He met Vaughn at a news conference this spring at R.L. Turner High School, where students have overdosed and …

As Tony Timpa falls silent about 11 minutes and 30 seconds into a Dallas police officer’s body-camera video, Dallas County’s chief medical examiner spoke with finality when a federal civil jury watched, again, the moment Timpa grunted one last time. “He’s dying right there,” Jeffrey Barnard told the eight-person panel in a downtown Dallas courtroom. Barnard was the first person called …

Authorities are asking the public’s help to identify the suspect vehicle of a fatal auto-pedestrian crash in Denton over the weekend, police said. Shortly before 10:30 p.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched to a crash near the intersection of West University Drive and the Interstate 35 service road, according to police. Multiple people told officers a man had been struck by a vehicle …

Plano and Plano ISD said they want to make sure the city’s housing authority is doing what it is legally required to do with its public facility corporations (PFCs) – create affordable housing for residents who need it. That’s why city officials and the school district requested records from the Plano Housing Authority to see if the PFC properties at …