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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 …

A Garland man was arrested Tuesday after police said he had an inappropriate relationship with a student while employed as a teacher’s aide at a Mesquite high school. Bryan Garcia faces two counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Mesquite police said the department received …

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Florida estate, saying “government records were likely concealed and removed” from a storage room even after the former president’s representatives had assured officials that they’d thoroughly searched the property. The FBI also seized 33 boxes containing more than …

Twelve people were taken to a hospital Tuesday after carbon monoxide leaked from a gas-powered generator into an Irving home. The Irving Fire Department was called just before 6 a.m. to a home in the 3500 block of Briarcliff Court North, near Finley Road. The carbon monoxide leaked from a generator being kept in the home’s garage, department spokesman Anthony …

FORT WORTH — Most days, 5-year-old Rayshard Scott sprinted door to door, looking for neighbors to play tag or hide-and-seek. On Sunday, Rayshard was playing outside when gunfire shot through his north Fort Worth neighborhood. Rayshard and a 17-year-old boy, Jamarrien Monroe, were killed in the drive-by shooting. An 18-month-old was wounded but is expected to recover. Police have not released a …

Despite some progress from a new violent crime strategy that launched earlier this year, Fort Worth has seen a year-to-date increase in homicides, police said. The Fort Worth Police Department issued a statement Monday evening following multiple incidents in the city over the weekend, including the fatal shooting of two children. Jamarrien Monroe, 17, and Rayshard Scott, 5, have been identified as the …

When a Southlake parent attempted to donate “In God We Trust” signs written in Arabic and decorated with rainbow colors, the school board president informed him that schools already have enough posters displaying the national motto. But under a new law, Texas public schools are required to hang posters emblazoned with “In God We Trust” if someone donates a poster …

Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Sunday that he’s been diagnosed with a bacterial infection, two days after cutting a book signing in San Antonio short because he was feeling ill. O’Rourke said doctors at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio diagnosed him with the infection and treated him with IV antibiotics. “While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at …

EL PASO – A chartered bus carrying migrants is scheduled to leave El Paso for New York on Tuesday, marking the first time that city and county officials have agreed to work with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The move reflects a deepening scramble to better manage increasing migration into Texas and is particularly noteworthy because El Paso largely touts its historic role as …

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a Texas federal court ruling that exempts a group of religious health care providers from the abortion and gender rights requirements of the Affordable Care Act. In an 18-page opinion filed Friday, the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the …