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A winter weather advisory is in effect until midnight for areas to the north and west of DFW. A slushy snow accumulation of up to three inches is possible, mostly on the grass. A few elevated roads could become slick (or slushy) Tuesday evening in the advisory area. For DFW, rain my change over to a brief period of wet …

AUSTIN — House Democrats on Tuesday filed a bill that would provide Texas teachers with a $15,000, across-the-board pay raise. House Bill 1548, the measure introduced by Austin Democratic Rep. James Talarico, would give school districts enough money to grant $1,500-a-month salary bumps for teachers, librarians, counselors and school nurses. Other school employees would get a 25% pay increase. Texas …

AUSTIN — Democratic state Sen. Roland Gutierrez on Tuesday announced he filed one bill to compensate victims of school violence by taxing bullet sales and another to end cops’ qualified immunity in response to the state’s worst mass school shooting in Uvalde. Backed by families wearing shirts and pins with photos of the loved ones they lost in the massacre, …

Two brothers were arrested in a weekend shooting in Garland that killed one person and hospitalized another. Christopher Sagrero 17, and Jose Sagrero 19, each face a murder charge, according to Garland police. The brothers were initially booked into the Dallas County jail on one count each of aggravated assault, but the charges were elevated once the victim died, said Lt. Richard Maldonado, …

WASHINGTON – Mocking Joe Biden as “Mr. Magoo,” Sen. Ted Cruz demanded the FBI scour the president’s old Senate records after more classified documents surfaced at his home in Delaware. It’s a huge trove: Biden donated 33 pallets holding 1,875 boxes to the University of Delaware in June 2012. The collection from his 36 year Senate career includes 415 gigabytes of electronic …

PASADENA, Texas — A powerful storm system took aim at the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado emergency for that area, warning that a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado” was on the ground Tuesday afternoon and was headed toward Baytown, about 25 miles …

The 16-year-old girl found dead last week in central Oak Cliff was dating the man police believe shot her multiple times before wrapping her in a blanket and dumping her body in a creek, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Arturo Flores, 22, was booked into the Dallas County jail early Saturday on a murder charge in the death of Venus …

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a week removed from his inauguration to a third term, already intends to run for a fourth. Patrick, 72, said as much during a forum in Austin with the conservative news outlet The Texan. While being interviewed, Patrick said he would “absolutely” run for a fourth term. Patrick cruised to reelection in 2022, beating …

WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans in Congress demanded that President Joe Biden find a way to reimburse the state for its border security efforts, and that he meet to discuss the crisis, as Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Tuesday to block Biden’s new asylum policy. Texas has spent $4 billion under Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s policy of deploying the …

Some North Texas cities saw snowfall Tuesday evening, but most of the region’s precipitation throughout the day came in the form of rain or sleet. The precipitation was expected to stop around midnight, according to meteorologists at National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The cold rain began to turn into snow Tuesday night in areas north and west of Dallas, …