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A North Texas school district’s new superintendent died unexpectedly Friday after a medical emergency. Northwest Independent School District called David Hicks, 55, a beloved leader and said in a written statement that he “made an immediate impact on the staff and students.” Hicks began his role at Northwest ISD in May after serving six years as Sherman Independent School District’s …

A 63-year-old man was found fatally shot in southeast Dallas early Saturday, police say. Officers were called just before 3 a.m. to the 200 block of Greenhaven Drive, near Antoinette Street, where they found Granville Davis lying in the backyard of a home with multiple gunshot wounds. Dallas Fire-Rescue took Davis to a hospital, where he died, police said. The …

CHICAGO — Sitting under a tree on the grass next to a hotel in a southwest suburb of Chicago, several migrant families from Venezuela were talking, still wondering why they had been relocated so far from the city in which they arrived. “I’m grateful, but we feel stuck here,” Matilde Menendez said in Spanish. Her family — one daughter and …

A Fort Worth man who claimed to work for Murder the Media News has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, pleaded guilty to a count of obstruction of an official proceeding, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The charge carries a maximum prison sentence …

Homes in Paloma Creek North in Denton County were evacuated Saturday afternoon following a bomb threat. About 3 p.m., the Little Elm Police Department said their officers, along with the Denton Police Department’s bomb squad, were dispatched to the threat in the 1400 block of Morning Dove Drive, near Partridge Drive. Police said houses in the immediate area were evacuated, …

Saturday topped out at 90 degrees at DFW, but with low humidity, not too uncomfortable. Temperatures should drop Sunday, as a cold front moves through North Texas. It should be great weather for Cowboys tailgating Sunday with lower humidity and a high only in the mid 80s. Early next week will feature pleasant mornings Monday and Tuesday with low temperatures …

Bad Bunny brought his buzzy “World’s Hottest Tour” to AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Friday night. For the musical party, Conejo Malo used beach scenery and screens with images to transport the thousands of attendees who packed the venue to a summer paradise in the Caribbean for a few hours. Accompanied by palm trees, a red and white cooler, a …

OMAHA, Neb. — Major freight railroads, in a bid to apply pressure on unions and Congress, say a strike that could come after a key deadline passes next week would cost the economy more than $2 billion a day and disrupt deliveries of all kinds of goods and passenger traffic nationwide. The Association of American Railroads trade group on Thursday …

EL PASO — U.S. Border Patrol agents are releasing a rising number of migrants onto the streets here to ease overcrowding at a processing center. Since Sept. 1, the daily average of encounters with migrants has swelled from 900 to more than 1,100 per day, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Carlos Rivera said. These numbers are in line with pre-pandemic volumes, …

Dallas may not be able to make a significant dent in catching up on long-neglected maintenance needs of some of its most visited Fair Park venues unless voters approve a hotel occupancy tax increase in November, prominent supporters of the election proposition said Friday. The 2% increase in the amount of taxes the city charges on room rentals is estimated to bring …