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When was your first menstrual period? When was your most recent? How many periods have you had in the past year? These are among the questions Texas student-athletes are asked on forms when they register to play a sport in middle or high school The menstrual period questions have led to controversy in at least one other state in light …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — In an effort to empower Latino voices at the polls, songwriter and activist, Lin-Manuel Miranda, decided to make a trip to Houston on Tuesday to chat with students about the upcoming midterm election. Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign said they expect as many as 10.6 million people to vote this midterm, but Miranda is worried about whether those …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As a part of highway I-45’s expansion project, the demolition of prime living locations in East Downtown soon-to-be underway are forcing many people to vacate their residences. The Texas Department of Transportation has demolished one of three buildings that make up the Lofts at the Ballpark apartment complex near Minute Maid Park and PNC Stadium. “People were …

When Mihir Gokhale was a child and his parents took him to Mumbai, he vividly remembers beggars asking his grandmother for food scraps. That memory led to the Allen student’s interest in tackling food insecurity on an international scale, and his work has now earned him a scholarship from Rustic Pathways, a nonprofit organization that empowers students to positively impact lives …

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz says the White House has snubbed a U.S. attorney pick backed by Texas’ GOP senators and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas, the senior Texas Democrat in Congress, and is urging the president to reconsider. Damien Diggs, a career prosecutor in the Dallas-based Northern District of Texas, would be the first Black lawyer to lead …

To help with anticipated traffic when a new H-E-B store opens, the Allen City Council on Oct. 11 approved a partnership agreement with grocery store chain to expand the intersection of Exchange Parkway and Greenville Avenue. The city said in a news release that future projected growth in the area prompted it to propose the cost-sharing partnership with H-E-B for additional …

Dallas County tenants appearing in court with legal representation during eviction proceedings significantly increases their chances of staying in their homes, according to a new report from the Child Poverty Action Lab. A study commissioned by the Dallas non-profit showed that when tenants didn’t appear for their eviction hearing, landlords won their cases by default 84% of the time; also, when …

Gary Cheatwood, almost 84, has spent nearly half his life worried about a yet-to-be-built human-made lake that would destroy everything important to him. His family’s century-old home bulldozed. Virgin timber they’ve watched grow demolished. His elders’ graves washed up. The threat of the 66,000-acre Marvin Nichols Reservoir has loomed for decades. He and other Northeast Texans have been fighting the …

It finally feels like Fall in North Texas and this cooler weather will stick around through Wednesday. Overnight lows will be quite chilly with many falling off into the 40s, Tuesday morning. The coldest morning appears to be Wednesday morning. Most of DFW will hold around 40, but many outlying spots will drop into the middle 30s. This means the …

WASHINGTON — Trevor Reed, the Fort Worth native and Marine veteran who was imprisoned in Russia for almost three years, has thrown his support behind freshman Rep. August Pfluger, R-San Angelo, in a new video ad for the congressman, who’s running for reelection Nov. 8. The new 30-second campaign ad, released Sunday, features Reed as he talks about what U.S. officials …