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Supporters of Frisco trustee Marvin Lowe showed in force Monday night at the district’s school board meeting, voicing support for Lowe after allegations recently surfaced that Lowe harassed a transgender student last September during a state educational conference in San Antonio. Trustees had an action item on the agenda regarding Lowe and whether any disciplinary action was needed regarding the …

In November, the research company OpenAI released a bot called ChatGPT. The bot has since gone viral, and has been used to write code, poetry and even an architectural review of Perot Museum of Nature and Science. ChatGPT composes everything from one-word responses to entire essays. But how does it actually work, and could its written responses replace human creations and ideas? …

A man who was shot by officers in Garland is in critical condition in a hospital and is accused of leading authorities on a chase Monday afternoon before opening fire on them, according to police. Officers tried to stop a white car about 5:30 p.m. Monday near the intersection of South Jupiter Road and Russwin Drive, the Garland Police Department …

Months after NASA showcased that it had the technology to navigate a spacecraft moving more than 14,000 miles per hour into hitting an asteroid, a new study suggests that similar methods could be used to protect the earth. In late-September, NASA conducted its Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a mission that rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos — a small asteroid that …

Dallas’ vibrant real estate market brought Ofir Bugana to the metroplex, where possibilities seemed as endless as the suburban sprawl. Bugana is a realtor and investor who has sold to clients purchasing homes in Plano, where residents in the Plano Texas Neighborhood Coalition are fighting to prohibit short-term rentals in single-family neighborhoods. Of the over 100 transactions Bugana has closed, she said …

A man is in critical condition after he was shot by a someone whose home in east Oak Cliff was targeted in a drive-by shooting, police said. Shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched to a shooting in the 2400 block of Maryland Avenue, according to Dallas police. Officers found a gunshot victim in the area and that person …

Authorities are investigating a fatal auto-pedestrian crash involving multiple vehicles over the weekend in Carrollton, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, emergency crews were dispatched to a crash on Sam Rayburn Tollway, near the Hebron Parkway exit, according to a Sunday news release. A 30-year-old woman from Dallas, whom the department identified as Quinyonna Janell Richard, …

Temperatures will continue to stay warm as we kick off the week. Highs on Monday and Tuesday afternoons will soar into the lower-80s. An unsettled pattern will return to North Texas by midweek with multiple showers and thunderstorm chances. Temperatures will trend much cooler, with highs back in the upper50s to lower-60s and lows in the upper-30s to lower-40s by …

Texas’ fight against environmental, social and corporate governance policies may soon expand to another front: insurance companies. The state’s anti-ESG push has focused on financial firms so far, requiring state pensions to divest from asset managers that “boycott” fossil fuels and excluding banks from underwriting bond sales over their gun safety rules. The Texas laws took effect in 2021, and …

AUSTIN — Texas still has a shortage of foster care beds — ones that are licensed and don’t put children and Child Protective Services workers at risk of harm, even death. Each night in January, an average of four dozen kids were “children without placements,” according to the Department of Family and Protective Services. Through the month’s 31 days, 171 …