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On most weekends, Tyre Nichols would head to the city park, train his camera on the sky and wait for the sun to set. “Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,” he wrote on his website. He preferred landscapes and loved the glow of …

Universal Studios in Frisco is expected to draw less weekday traffic than H-E-B, Stonebriar Centre and Collin College, according to a traffic comparison city officials posted online. The traffic impact analysis shows the current mixed-use zoning would likely draw more than three times the traffic that Universal would on weekdays. The theme park will draw more traffic on Saturday than the other entities, other …

Mild weather will continue Saturday with highs in the 60s. Clouds will overspread North Texas by early Saturday. There will be some showers in East Texas, but the DFW area will remain dry. Sunday will feature a cold front arriving in the morning. The front may produce a few showers, but the majority of the day will be dry. It …

Driving around in his van in southern Dallas on Thursday night, Charlie Leavitt, director of the D-FW nonprofit Metro Relief, rolled down his window when he noticed a man wearing a long, black trench coat walking by himself. With temperatures hovering around the mid-40s, the man appeared slightly warmer than many others in the semi-residential area in the 75215 ZIP …

John F. “Jack” Lubben III, 80, a longtime criminal defense lawyer in Dallas with a memorable deep voice, died Jan. 24 at his home in Austin. He was the grandson of John Lubben, the business partner of The Dallas Morning News founder G. B. Dealey. The News was founded in 1885. Lubben was born in Houston and raised in McAllen. He lived in Dallas …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis authorities released more than an hour of footage Friday of the violent beating of Tyre Nichols in which officers held the Black motorist down and struck him repeatedly as he screamed for his mother. The video emerged one day after the officers, who are all Black, were charged with murder in Nichols’ death. The footage shows …

Moments after an 18-year-old wanted on a capital murder charge shot a Dallas police officer in the foot this week, six officers trying to arrest him returned fire, shooting at him about 55 times, police Chief Eddie García said Friday. Joey Cesar Fraire then collapsed in front of a west Oak Cliff apartment building as blood dripped down his legs, …

MIAMI — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he takes “full responsibility” after classified documents were found at his Indiana home. In his first public comments since the discovery, Pence said he hadn’t been aware that the documents were in his residence but acknowledged his lack of awareness wasn’t an excuse. “Let me be clear: Those classified documents should not have been …

AUSTIN — A federal judge again is threatening to hold Texas in contempt of court for not bringing its system of long-term foster care up to par. At a Dallas hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack said she’s especially upset over bad things happening to the children who are being tended around the clock by Child Protective …

The alleged inappropriate sexual conduct that led to the Wednesday arrest of a president of a North Texas school district’s board of trustees occurred inside the church he was a leader at, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Andrew “Drew” Wilborn, 43, was arrested Wednesday by Dallas police and booked into the Dallas County Jail. He faces one charge of indecency with a …