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Rain chances will be returning to North Texas for the upcoming week. Widespread and long lasting rain is not expected, but each day through Thursday will have at least a chance of spotty to scattered showers and storms. Rain amounts for the week in DFW will be around a half inch with some spots getting as much as an inch. …

Three minors were shot during a drive-by shooting in Fort Worth Sunday afternoon, leaving a 17-year-old and a 5-year-old dead, according to police. The third victim, an 18-month-old toddler, survived the shooting, which took place in the 8500 block of Steel Dust Drive, off Old Decatur Road, Fort Worth police Chief Neil Noakes said. Several people called 911 to report …

Police are investigating after a man was found fatally shot behind a shed on a vacant property early Sunday. Shortly after 4 a.m., officers were dispatched to respond to a shooting in the 800 block of Wixom Lane. Officers found a man who had been shot behind a shed on the property, police said. The man, whose identity is being …

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 …

Police are investigating after a 26-year-old man was found fatally shot inside an apartment in the Kessler Stevens neighborhood of Dallas. Shortly before 5:30 a.m., officers were dispatched to respond to a shooting at the 1400 block of Winding Brook Circle, near the intersection of Fort Worth Avenue and North Plymouth Road. Officers found Jacquan Hudson inside an apartment near …

Dallas police made an arrest Thursday in a shooting that left one person dead and another injured in Deep Ellum last weekend. Roman Martin Pargas Jr., 23, faces a murder charge in the slaying of Ricky Burns, 26. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Just before 3 a.m. Sunday, Burns was in the 2600 block of Elm Street when …

HOUSTON — A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — early Sunday after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded …

A video of a woman going on a racist rant against a group of South Asian women went viral this week, leading to the arrest of the 58-year-old woman at the center of the clip. Esmeralda Upton faces misdemeanor charges of assault and making a terroristic threat. Plano police were called about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday to a parking lot outside a restaurant …