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Multiple people in North Texas on Thursday reported feeling an earthquake that occurred hundreds of miles west of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. About 4:30 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 4.7-magnitude quake near Hermleigh, more than 240 miles west of Dallas. The tremor was initially reported as a 4.3-magnitude quake. The federal agency’s map of areas where residents reported feeling …

AUSTIN — The Democratic response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s state of the state address focused on a myriad of issues ranging from school choice, to power grid reliability and gun restrictions in light of the Robb Elementary School shooting. A premade hodgepodge of smash cuts featuring at least a dozen Democratic members of the state House, Senate and Congress followed …

A man who police suspected of killing a Garland bike store employee was found dead in his Rowlett home Thursday, police said. Garland police started investigating after the victim’s body was found Thursday morning at Don Johle’s Bike World in the 5500 block of Broadway Boulevard. He was identified as James Owen Kencheloe, 40, of Mesquite, an employee of the …

LAS VEGAS — Texas authorities claim Nevada law enforcement failed to inform them when a woman accused of stabbing a man inside a Las Vegas-area hotel room in an apparent act of revenge relocated to Dallas. Nika Nikoubin, 22, has been on house arrest in Texas since at least June 2022 after posting bond and being released from a Las Vegas jail, …

Federal authorities and Carrollton police arrested a man they accuse of being the “main source of supply” of fentanyl in connection with the deaths and hospitalizations of Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD students, officials said in a news conference Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton said authorities on Tuesday arrested Jason Xavier Villanueva, 22, in connection with the case. Villanueva is a former …

A woman who has been accused of a stabbing in Nevada last year has been banned from the University of Texas at Dallas campus, officials said Wednesday. Nika Nikoubin, 22, was arrested in March and accused of stabbing a man at a casino hotel near Las Vegas, The Associated Press reported. She told investigators that she stabbed the man, whom she …

EL PASO — Police in El Paso say one person was killed and three other people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday in a shopping mall. One person has been taken into custody, said Sgt. Robert Gomez, a police spokesman. No immediate information was given about that person. Another person could be involved, Gomez said, and police were looking for …

Police are asking the public’s help to identify a man who is accused of threatening members of a mosque in DeSoto earlier this week. Around 9 p.m. Tuesday, a man walked into a mosque in the 500 block of West Beltline Road and “allegedly threatened to harm congregants and their families,” DeSoto police said in a Wednesday news release Police …

A man died Tuesday morning after being shot outside his home in Arlington. Around 5:15 a.m., officers responded to a home in the 1400 block of Prentice Street and found a 36-year-old man with an apparent gunshot wound inside an SUV, according to police. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was identified by the Tarrant County Medical …

AUSTIN — Lawyers for more than 10,000 children in Texas’ much-criticized system of long-term foster care have used part of their taxpayer-paid fees to hire lobbyists to advocate for increased state funding of foster care. On Wednesday, the unusual move drew sharp rebukes from the House and Senate’s top two child-welfare policy writers. The Republican leaders’ hostile reaction raised doubts …