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A case of the monkeypox virus has been confirmed at a high school in Keller ISD. The case was confirmed at Central High School in Fort Worth, KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reported, but it’s unclear whether the person with the infection is a student or an employee. The district told the outlet that local health officials determined the risk of spread in …

ROCKVILLE, Md. — President Joe Biden has much to crow about as he starts his push toward the midterms: record job growth, easing gas prices, student loan forgiveness and a flurry of laws tackling gun violence, climate change and drug prices. Yet his support remains sluggish, a big reason he picked deep blue suburban Maryland to start road testing a …

Behind its celebrity-fronted campaign, the war cry of “Don’t Mess with Texas” has a trash-filled past — literally. While Texans may see the phrase plastered on T-shirts, stickers and hats, the true meaning has slowly faded since the 1980s. That’s why a reader asked Curious Texas: “What’s the history of the phrase ‘Don’t Mess With Texas?’” Littering is a huge …

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson hopes that Saturday’s celebration at UNT Dallas becomes an annual tradition. Families, city staff and Dallas police officers gathered at the university’s South Dallas campus for the culmination of the mayor’s Summer of Safety program, which provides free and low-cost programs for youth to keep them engaged when school’s out. This summer, about 200,000 people visited …

Cryptocurrency miners are accelerating their push to expand in Texas far beyond what authorities had initially expected, threatening to send the state’s electricity use skyrocketing. Enough miners have applied to connect to Texas’s power grid to use up to 33 gigawatts of electricity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the system, said in an email Friday. That’s a …

A group of North Texas Methodist Ministers contend Texas abortion laws violate their religious freedom because provisions penalizing those who aid some seeking an abortion could infringe on their ability to counsel their congregations. United Methodist Church ministers Katie Newsome, Phil Dieke, Rachel Baughman and Sheron Patterson sent a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, explaining that the state law prevents …

Hispanics in North Texas sending remittances to their families in Latin America are feeling the impact of inflation on their pockets — both in the U.S. and in their home countries. “Prices are ridiculously higher. I had this idea that just gas was up. But I had never stopped to think about groceries, and everything is way too expensive now,” said Salvador …

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 …

A man was fatally shot Friday afternoon at an Arlington apartment complex, police said. Officers were called about 4 p.m. to the 2100 block of Cypress Club Drive, near East Pioneer Parkway and Sherry Street, and found a man with a gunshot wound lying on the ground. The victim, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the …

A 36-year-old Fort Worth man who admitted to sex trafficking a 13-year-old girl at an Irving hotel room was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in federal prison. Curtis Vance Mathis pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of children in June 2021. He was sentenced to 135 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade. According to court documents, …