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Mild weather is expected through Wednesday with temperatures running 15 to 20 degrees above normal. Given the warm weather, the fire danger will remain elevated through Wednesday thanks to dry, dormant vegetation and occasionally gusty winds. be careful not to do anything that creates sparks. Changes will arrive on Wednesday as our next cold front pushes in with a chance …

AUSTIN — Greg Abbott’s tenure as Texas governor has been highlighted by crises. Since he took office in 2015, he’s had to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, the 2021 winter storm that killed 246 people, several mass shootings, including the Uvalde massacre, and other emergencies complicated by political polarization. “Right now his legacy is going to be that he’s a tested governor,” said state …

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety is opening an application process to potentially add more medical cannabis dispensaries, the agency announced in a news release Monday. Only three dispensaries have been licensed in Texas in the past three years. The application process to add more dispensaries under the Compassionate Use Program opened Monday and will run until April …

Professor Ashfaque Hussain Pirzada passed away from cardiac arrest. By: Raja Zahid A Khanzada Dallas: Elder brother of  Dallas well know entrepreneur and leader of Dallas sindhi community Imtiaz Pirzada and Imran Pirzada & Renowned Pakistani educator Ashfaque Hussain Pirzada Who’s was Professor at Mehran University Of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan passed away from cardiac arrest at Kuala …

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden, in a Sunday sermon at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, used the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic pulpit to build bridges with Black voters as he gears up for a reelection bid. Alluding to his failure to deliver on a key campaign promise – to restore voting rights protections erased by the Supreme Court in 2013 – …

As trash and complaints continue to pile up following the botched rollout of a new city pickup schedule, one Dallas City Council member has decided to take matters into his own hands by hiring a private service to haul garbage away from his constituents most in need. Chad West, who represents District 1 in Oak Cliff, said he has personally …

An 18-year-old was arrested Saturday afternoon in connection with a string of armed robberies in and around Fort Worth, including one where the robber fatally shot a dog. Donovin Copeland was booked into the Fort Worth jail Saturday on an aggravated assault charge out of Fort Worth; charges of assault, auto theft and criminal mischief out of White Settlement; and …

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials are investigating a close call at a New York airport Friday night between a plane that was crossing a runway and another that was preparing for takeoff. “(Expletive)! Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance! Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance!” an air controller said in an audio recording of Air Traffic Control communications when he noticed the …

Burglars stole millions of dollars in jewelry over the weekend from a store inside a Mesquite mall, according to a manager of the business. Paul Hash, a manager at American Jewelers, said employees learned of the burglary when the business opened Saturday morning. He said he thinks burglars got into the store by first breaking through the wall of a …

With Nova, the clouded leopard, reunited with her sister at the Dallas Zoo, police are also now investigating a second tampered enclosure on the grounds — home to a small troop of spectacled langur monkeys. On Saturday, zoo staff uncovered a cut on the langurs’ exhibit, similar in appearance to that of the clouded leopards’ habitat. Authorities believe the tampering …