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AUSTIN — Senators met behind closed doors in the state Capitol on Tuesday, a week before Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial is scheduled to start. They did not vote on any pending motions Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s spokesman Steven Aranyi confirmed to including a request from Paxton to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him. Two senators told The News that …

Allen police found four people dead Monday morning in what investigators say was an apparent murder-suicide. Officers were called about 8:45 a.m. to a home in the 1200 block of Aberdeen Drive, near East Exchange Parkway and North Allen Heights Drive, to perform a welfare check. Police said a resident of the house had been locked out for about two …

AUSTIN — A veteran Dallas County judge will assist Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick when he presides over next week’s impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton. Patrick announced Monday that Lana Myers, a former trial and appeals court judge, will help him as “legal counsel for the presiding officer.” It was Patrick’s second stab at filling the temporary position that …

One person died and another was rescued Tuesday afternoon as emergency crews responded to a drowning call at Lake Lewisville. A little before 3 p.m., the Frisco Fire Department responded to a call of a man drowning in the 7700 block of Snug Harbor Circle in Hackberry, the city said in a news release. When fire crews arrived on scene, they rescued …

Scorching temperatures and a relentless drought have revealed an unexpected find on the bottom of an East Texas river: a tangle of wrecked ships from World War I. A man who was jet skiing Aug. 18 bumped into the wreckage in the Neches River. Bill Milner, who grew up on the river, spent about three hours investigating the wreckage and snapping photos before contacting …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and other authorities not to allow any unauthorised and illegal charged parking in the city. A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, also sought a detailed compliance report and warned that in case of any violation of traffic laws, an appropriate action would be taken. …

A federal judge has denied a request to temporarily block Dallas from issuing citations to people standing or walking on road medians. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown issued a ruling Friday saying she agreed with a July recommendation from U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver to deny a preliminary injunction of the median ban. The injunction, if it had been approved, would have …

The Carroll ISD community is in mourning after a seventh-grade student died Friday evening, according to an email from the district. Julio Oliveira, who attended Carroll Middle School, had a “medical emergency” on campus Thursday morning during football practice, Shatina Lewis, the principal of Carroll, said in an email to parents and staff Saturday. “Losing a student is a devastating …

A shift in the heat dome allowed a summertime cold front to move through North Texas on Sunday. This will keep temperatures well below the levels that we have experienced for much of the summer. High temperatures will remain in the 90s for much of the week ahead with morning temperatures in the 70s. Temperatures will once again heat up …

EL PASO — A Texas National Guard soldier on duty in El Paso shot across the Rio Grande and wounded a man on the Mexican side of the river on Saturday evening, according to a senior Mexican official. The wounded man was from the southern state of Veracruz and was standing on the river banks of Ciudad Juárez, according to …