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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 …

As Gabrielle Kostecki slides open the top of the cage, Rat No. 6 — a known troublemaker — darts out to explore the lab. “You live in a box,” she says. “So I’ll let you have your moment.” Scooping No. 6 into her gloved palm, Kostecki brings it to a box with levers inside. When the rat presses a lever …

GARLAND — With a skateboard attached to his feet, Abraham de la Cruz spun in the air at high speed like a helicopter propeller, only to land on the asphalt without losing his balance. The ramps and pits of the Jon Comer Skatepark in Garland have become the passion of the 21-year-old who likes to defy the laws of gravity …

A beautiful Tuesday is on tap for North Texas. Much of the day will be highlighted by sunshine, warmth, and light winds. Perhaps the best part of today’s forecast will be lower humidity. This will make for more comfortable conditions, despite a high in the lower 90s. The rest of the week looks sunny and very warm with highs in …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday to end a historic screenwriters strike after nearly five months, though no deal is yet in the works for striking actors. The Writers Guild of America announced the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group that represents studios, streaming services and producers in …

WASHINGTON — Democrats angling for Sen. Ted Cruz’s job largely agree that when it comes to gun violence, solutions start with getting him out of office. He “seems to think there’s nothing that we can do to save lives, and that there’s no steps necessary or that we can even consider that can help us prevent public places from becoming …

AUSTIN — Opposing sides in the long-running Texas foster care lawsuit are readying for a showdown, likely by year’s end, as lawyers for the children seek to make the state pay large fines for noncompliance with a federal judge’s orders. The plaintiffs’ lawyers, working closely with court monitors appointed by the judge, are trying to build a case that Gov. Greg …

Deep in the belly of Dallas County’s only public hospital, a pharmacy technician badges in and enters a labyrinth so restricted that few in the hospital have ever seen it. Cameras monitor her movements as she makes her way among towering shelves of plastic bins filled with syringes and needles and vials to another door — a door so plain …

Tony Timpa’s family rested their case Friday in the federal civil case against four Dallas police officers accused in his 2016 death. The civil trial spurred by the Timpa family’s lawsuit against Officers Dustin Dillard, Danny Vasquez, Kevin Mansell and Raymond Dominguez has featured testimony from each of the officers involved, Timpa’s family, use-of-force and medical experts. Others are expected …