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A pleasant spring weather pattern will continue for the coming days. Sunshine with highs in the 70s is expected Wednesday. The wind will be light, making for a very nice outdoor combination. Thursday will be dry and pleasant with plenty of sunshine and high temperatures in the upper 70s to around 80. Our next disturbance will arrive late week with …

courtesy by Geo News Members of Congress and elected representatives attend Fort Bend’s annual Iftar dinner held at Sugarland in partnership with community organizations. By: Raja Zahid A Khanzada Houston, TX:  America’s Most Diverse Fort Bend County’s Third Annual Iftar Dinner was held on a grand scale this year at  Sugarland Houston texas . Event was Organized by PABPA(  (Pakistani …

The vehicle number plate P7 was sold for a staggering Dh55 million at the ‘Most Noble Numbers’ auction in Dubai on Saturday night setting a new record. The winning bid was placed at the end of a fiercely fought bid battle among guests at the Four Seasons resort in Jumeirah. “Sixteen years ago, a world record was set in Abu …

The Texas Department of Public Safety last week sent out its second round of letters to notify victims of a scam that targeted thousands of Asian Americans in the state. In February, the department announced at least 3,000 people were affected by the scam, in which fraudsters used data culled from the dark web to order driver’s licenses in Texans’ names. That …

Before he learned he’d be the only name listed in the mayoral race on the May 6 ballot, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson spent nearly $116,000 on his reelection campaign in the first 1½ months of 2023, the most recent campaign finance reports show. The first-term incumbent reported spending most of the cash ahead of the Feb. 17 filing deadline — …

At a rate of more than one killing per day, March marked one of Dallas’ deadliest months in years. The city recorded 34 murders — a single-month death toll not seen in Dallas since October 2020, which reached 35, according to police. Data kept by shows a single week in March accounted for half of the tally, including the death of …

A man is facing multiple manslaughter charges after he sideswiped a car Sunday on Interstate 20 in Grand Prairie, causing a secondary crash, police said. Shortly before 5:30 p.m., a Chrysler eastbound in the 500 block of I-20 lost control and struck a Mercedes passenger vehicle, police said. The Mercedes was “pushed toward the right shoulder” of the highway and crashed …

AUSTIN — Amid a surging fentanyl crisis, the Texas House advanced a bipartisan bill that would decriminalize testing strips that detect the powerful opiate. The legislation is among several bills that seeks to address the rise in fentanyl overdoses. Currently, the testing strips are considered drug paraphernalia in Texas. “Overdose deaths continue to skyrocket as fentanyl comes across the southern border, and …

A fellow Dallas trails fanatic shared a shocking crime statistic as we recently left a Mountain Creek neighborhood meeting: Eight murders occurred last year on or very near the city’s steadily expanding hike-and-bike network. That number couldn’t possibly be right. No way would public safety reporters miss a trend like that. It must be the stuff of Nextdoor exaggeration or social …

Two people died Monday evening after a shooting at a home in Murphy, a city in Collin County, city officials confirmed. A third person who was injured is believed to be responsible for the shooting, Murphy City Manager Mike Castor said. Castor did not provide information related to the three people. It is unclear if the shooter, whose name authorities have …