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Hundreds of passengers were forced to remain on a plane for almost seven hours after it diverted to a remote airport due to a passenger medical emergency. The story was reported by outlets including Australia’s ABC News. The Jetstar flight from Bangkok to Melbourne landed in Alice Springs, in Australia’s Northern Territory, at about 7.20 a.m. on Sunday. An electrical problem …

A Dallas County grand jury declined on Friday to indict a Dallas police homicide detective accused of tampering with a murder investigation into a fellow officer. The grand jury considered two felony charges of tampering with records and one misdemeanor case of perjury against Esteban Montenegro, whose investigation led to the 2021 termination and arrest of former Dallas police Officer Bryan Riser on suspicion …

John Cranfill, who spent more than three decades at The Dallas Morning News in a variety of roles and helped usher the paper into the digital era, died Feb. 15. He was 78. John Elgin Cranfill was born in Waco on Dec. 17, 1944, and attended La Vega High School and Baylor University before earning his master’s degree from the University of …

A father is accused of shooting and wounding his 13-year-old son at their Lake Highlands home on Wednesday, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Randy Edwards, 53, was booked into the Dallas County jail at about 10:40 p.m. Thursday on a charge of aggravated assault of a family member, according to jail records. Edwards did not have an attorney listed in …

A Black educator — who left his job in the Grapevine-Colleyville school district amid a “critical race theory” backlash — is suing the district and one of its school board members. The lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges that trustee Tammy Nakamura defamed former principal James Whitfield by calling educators like him “poison” and making other public comments, violating the terms of …

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, President George W. Bush exhorted Congress to fund a new effort to address HIV in Africa. The disease was a scourge afflicting one-third of adults in the hardest-hit countries. “Seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many,” he said. Some $100 billion later, PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives …

GLEN ROSE — A few hours before a public hearing on whether to renew the operating licenses of Comanche Peak nuclear power plant, I drove out for the first time to see the twin domes that are supposed to protect us in case of a radiation release. Unit 1 came online in 1990 and Unit 2 came on in 1993. …

Police are searching for a driver who they say struck a woman, killing her, and then fled the scene Monday night in Pleasant Grove. Officers responded about 8:35 p.m. Monday to the intersection of Budtime Lane and North Masters Drive. They found the woman — identified as 50-year-old Lajuanda Graves — in the center median, police said. She died at …

From the moment a clouded leopard escaped its enclosure at the Dallas Zoo on Jan. 13, fleeing through a fence that zoo officials said was intentionally cut, the city’s 135-year-old sanctuary for wild and endangered animals has fallen prey to intense scrutiny. On the same day, police said the enclosure housing langur monkeys had also been tampered with, though none …

A $20 million donation to Southern Methodist University aims to bolster the engineering school. The funds will support research, provide financial assistance to doctoral students and pay for undergraduate scholarships, as well as endow the school’s dean position. The huge gift, announced Friday, comes from Dallas philanthropists Mary and Richard Templeton. “SMU provides the kind of robust education and research …