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A white Dallas police officer is on administrative leave as the department investigates allegations that he made and tried to sell a challenge coin the Black Police Association decried as racist. Chief Eddie García said at a news conference Wednesday that the officer’s design for the South Central Patrol Division coin stained the department. He apologized to the community. Police have …

EAGLE PASS — On a sweltering August night, 16 vehicles idled beside a forlorn stretch of Texas Highway 131 in Maverick County. Located on the Mexico border, more than two hours southwest of San Antonio, Maverick is poor and rural. Census figures show nearly 90% of its 58,000 people speak Spanish at home, one of the highest percentages in the …

A COVID-19 pandemic-related health order known as Title 42 has created a revolving door at the southwest border for some migrants. Migrants from countries like Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras generally face a quick expulsion. Others from countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua get a fighting chance in the nation’s clogged immigration courts. It wasn’t supposed to work this way in March 2020 when the …

An unsettled weather pattern will bring a good chance of rain through Thursday. Scattered showers and a few thunderstorms will be possible over the next few days. Severe weather is not expected, but there could be a few brief downpours and occasional lightning. Rain totals won’t be overly impressive, generally around 0.25″ to 0.50,” with some isolated higher totals over …

A man accused of fatally shooting someone at his north Oak Cliff apartment was arrested after Dallas police say he crashed his Tesla, carjacked someone at gunpoint, assaulted a trucker and tried to take a security officer’s gun, according to court records. Ryan Glover, 27, was booked into the Dallas County jail Sunday morning on charges of murder, aggravated robbery, …

An executive with a Frisco hospice company has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded Medicare out of millions of dollars. Slade Brown, 52, pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. He was sentenced Aug. 25. Starling Marshall McCallum, an attorney listed for Brown in court records, did …

DENTON — A relative of a Texas Ranger Hall of Famer told a Denton County jury Tuesday the pitcher sexually assaulted him as a child — which he disclosed to family as a teen — and left him with emotional trauma. John Wetteland, 56, is charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The relative alleges Wetteland forced him …

A man is behind bars in the fatal shooting of a man in Lake Highlands last year. Jarrod Darrion Pledger, 25, faces a murder charge in the slaying of Miguel Angel Villela Cruz, 32. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. The evening of Nov. 19, officers were called to a shooting in the 9600 block of Wickersham Road and found Villela …

A Dallas officer who shot a Black Lives Matter protester with pepper balls more than two years ago has been cleared by police without a public explanation. The police chief and city officials would not comment on the investigation into Sgt. Roger Rudloff or release the final report, saying it would interfere with litigation stemming from the shooting. Police closed the administrative …

Cook Children’s Health Care System is urging parents to test their children for COVID-19 at home amid overwhelming demand for testing in its emergency departments. The system’s emergency departments and urgent-care centers are experiencing high volumes of children who have been exposed to COVID-19 but are not showing any symptoms. On Monday, Cook’s Children emergency department staff saw more than …