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A 25-year-old man who had a medical emergency in the Dallas County jail before he fell unresponsive in late July died from the toxic effects of cocaine, the medical examiner’s office said Tuesday. Luis Angel Perez’s death was ruled an accident, the medical examiner’s office told The Dallas Morning News. The written autopsy report wasn’t immediately available. Perez was arrested by Dallas …

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court was told Tuesday that there is no basis in federal law for a Trump administration ban on bump stocks — devices that enable a shooter to fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons with a single trigger pull. The ban was instituted after a sniper using bump stock-equipped weapons massacred dozens in Las Vegas in 2017. Gun rights advocates are challenging it …

SANTA TERESA, New Mexico – As a political rift between Texas and Mexico grows, this tiny port of entry in New Mexico is reaping the benefits, doubling the size of trade and aiming for much more. Trucks with manufactured products entering the U.S. through this port, which is less than 10 miles from the Texas state line, have increased two-fold …

Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking approval for federal funds to help the Dallas region recover from last month’s historic flooding. On Tuesday, Abbott formally requested a disaster declaration from the U.S. Small Business Administration, which would make some affected residents and businesses eligible for loans through the agency’s disaster grant programs The governor directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management …

Yatziry Jaramillo stood between two men lying wounded on the asphalt of a grocery parking lot. One was her father, who’d shot himself in the head. The other was the Mesquite police officer he shot. Officer Richard Houston II responded after an argument between her parents, and her father fired three shots into the cop. Camera footage from Houston’s patrol car …

A Collin County fifth-grade teacher was killed Sunday night in a murder-suicide, according to the Josephine Police Department. Officers responded to a report of gunfire at a home in the 700 block of Mallard Street about 8:10 p.m. and discovered the bodies of 41-year-old Lacie Moore and her husband, 37-year-old Brian Moore. Police said Tuesday that Lacie Moore was the …

Warm and dry weather will be the rule across North Texas for the next several days. Humidity levels will remain rather low through Thursday, so even though it will be warm, it won’t be uncomfortable. Highs will be in the low 90s with lows in the upper 60s. The weekend will be hotter and noticeably more humid. The heat index …

Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit …

The morning of Andre Emmett’s fatal shooting, officers couldn’t find shell casings or a trail of blood to explain the man they found on all fours, bleeding out on an Old East Dallas street. Had he been dumped on the side of the road? Was he shot in a car and pushed out? In tearful testimony Tuesday, his mother, Regina Oliver, …

Dallas police and criminologists say the city’s violent-crime plan is working and point to the 11.5% drop in the total number of “street-level” violent crimes in the 12 months after its conception in May 2021. Mike Smith and Rob Tillyer, University of Texas at San Antonio criminologists who helped develop the crime plan, told the Dallas City Council’s public safety …