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Tenants in the city of Dallas who face retaliation from their landlords after reporting a code violation can now document it through the 311 nonemergency system. But those who don’t speak English might have a more challenging time trying to report their problem. The service won’t be available online in Spanish until the end of the year at the earliest. The Office …

AUSTIN — The defendant’s wife wants a say in his fate. One juror employed the woman with whom the defendant allegedly had an affair. Another could be called as a witness. And the defendant could owe the judge as much as $125,000. In any normal trial, such parties would face near automatic exclusion from participating in a trial. But in Texas …

AUSTIN — The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton kicks off this morning. The historic proceedings, the first for a statewide elected official in Texas since 1917, will be held at the Texas Senate in the state Capitol. The chamber is rearranged to resemble a courtroom, with a witness stand and tables for the prosecution and defense. The Texas House, including a majority of …

I go to a neighborhood dinner party with people who aren’t in this game. They know what I do, so first they want to talk to me about Narcos or Breaking Bad. Eventually they say, “Hey, about that fentanyl stuff, I guess that’s pretty bad, right?” When I ask questions to figure out how much they know, I can tell their sense of …

McKinney’s historic red-brick Cotton Mill with glass paneled windows sits on the east side of Highway 5 about a mile from downtown. Soon, plans for redevelopment at the site could bring one five-story multifamily building and three seven-story multifamily buildings to the fields south of the mill bordered by Anderson and Burrus streets. The multifamily buildings would add 1,135 units …

Dallas officials say they will disclose more information regarding the ransomware attack in a report to City Council members this week. But they provided a few new details in an interview with The Dallas Morning News last week, the first time City Manager T.C. Broadnax agreed to a sit-down talk about how hackers were able to access the personal information of at least 30,000 people. The …

It’s the summer that just won’t end. Aside from a few weekend thunderstorms, so far the transition from August into September has been rather uneventful. In fact, as far as temperatures are concerned, it would appear we’re going backwards. More triple digits are in store the next several days. A Heat Advisory is in effect today. By the end of …

KIRKUK: A curfew was lifted in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday after protests turned violent and led to the deaths of four people. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani imposed the curfew on Saturday evening after rival protests — between Kurdish residents on one side and Turkmen and Arabs on the other — descended into deadly unrest despite …

Dallas police continued searching Sunday for a teen reported last seen in Lake Ray Hubbard days ago. Officers first responded to the lake about 10:40 p.m. Friday, police said. Witnesses said the teen was last seen in the water. Police said that as of noon Sunday they were still searching for the teen. No other information was immediately available.

A slow-moving upper-level low pressure system has brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to North Texas, and they will continue through Sunday evening. Some of the stronger storms may produce wind gusts of 40-50 mph, but they will be hit or miss, and much of the region will remain dry. But after the third hottest and fourth driest summer on record, …