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WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott has again extended emergency pandemic SNAP benefits to Texans who need them, a move that will provide more than $305.5 million to Texas households for the month of August in addition to the more than $7.6 billion in benefits previously allotted to Texans since April 2020. But Texans are still struggling to access the benefits they need, …

Dallas is on the verge of having a citywide plan to address racial inequities, but City Council members wonder where the money will come from to implement the strategy in the years ahead. The racial equity plan could be approved by the council as early as Aug. 24 and would be a first for Dallas, which is still trying to …

Breathy cries for help flooded a Dallas County courtroom Wednesday morning as jurors’ eyes widened and their brows furrowed. “Help. My dad shot me. … I’m dying. I’m dying. I’m dying,” a girl’s voice uttered in a recorded 911 call played by prosecutors. It was the second day of testimony in the capital murder trial of a father accused of killing his teenage …

At least two of five Dallas County commissioners have threatened to slash district judge salaries during the upcoming budget cycle if the criminal court case backlog is not sharply reduced. Commissioners J.J. Koch and John Wiley Price want to vote in the coming weeks on the possibility of withholding the county’s portion of district judges’ salaries over the number of …

A Heat Advisory is in effect for most of North Texas through 8 p.m. today. Air temperatures could go as high as 105 with a heat index reaching 107 in spots again this afternoon. In addition, south winds will gust over 20 mph at times leading to a continued elevated fire threat. Rain chances will remain absent from the forecast through the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two men have been charged with capital murder after two high-profile cases left three people dead earlier this week. The suspects, 18-year-old Evan Scott Redmond and 19-year-old Camren Keith Johnson, were charged in the deadly shooting of two men following a carjacking and police chase on Monday and the death of a 19-year-old who was found inside …

A man accused of killing a woman in Far East Dallas on Sunday picked her up with the intent of paying her for sex and cut her multiple times in a motel room before dropping her off at a nearby street corner, police allege in an arrest-warrant affidavit. Andre Woods Jr., 22, faces a murder charge. An attorney listed for …

Amina Said was so close to getting away from the man she feared. The 18-year-old senior at Lewisville High School fled the state, got an apartment and planned to start a new life. But her mother forced Amina to return to her father Jan. 1, 2008, her then-boyfriend Edgar Ruiz testified Tuesday in a Dallas County courtroom at her father’s capital murder …

The U.S. Postal Service approved a request to change the ZIP code for the residents of the Estates at Rockhill, a Frisco neighborhood with a Little Elm ZIP code, according to a letter sent by the Postal Service last month. Residents of the Estates at Rockhill said they contacted the Postal Service to ask for a ZIP code change after years …

An 18-year-old woman is behind bars after police say she played a part in a fatal shooting during a catalytic converter theft in northwest Dallas last year. Isabel Campbell was arrested Wednesday on a charge of capital murder in the slaying of 22-year-old Sergio Maas. It’s unclear whether she has an attorney. The morning of Dec. 1, officers responded to a …