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The severe storms that moved through North Texas Sunday carried with it strong winds and hail in some areas, with power outages reported in many parts of Dallas and Fort Worth. A video obtained by showed the moment when townhomes that were under construction in Old East Dallas collapsed during Sunday’s storm. PHOTOS: Severe Storms Knocked Down Several Townhomes Under …

REGINA, Saskatchewan — A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched for two suspects. The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of …

Jacqueline Farias has spent the last five years as a barista at Merit Coffee in Highland Park while working her way through Texas Woman’s University. It’s not unusual for 400 customers to pass through during a shift. That’s a lot of pouring, sweeping and wiping. Her psychology degree helps her cope with “adults throwing tantrums” but hasn’t opened doors to …

DENTON — The judge declared a mistrial Friday in the sexual abuse trial of former Texas Rangers pitcher John Wetteland after a Denton County jury said they were deadlocked. A relative accused Wetteland of forcing him to perform a sex act on him three times between 2004 and 2006, beginning when the child was 4 years old. The jury of …

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will provide abortions to veterans and their beneficiaries in certain cases, including in Texas and other states that ban or restrict the procedure, the department announced Friday. The VA said it plans to provide abortion counseling and abortions at federal health facilities nationwide as medically necessary or in cases of rape or incest. Previously, the …

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that although the state’s abortion ban makes no exception for rape or incest, victims of these crimes can take emergency contraception and call the police. “We want to support those victims, but also those victims can access health care immediately, as well as to report it,” Abbott said during a segment that will …

A McKinney church was vandalized with racist slurs and swastikas for the second time in less than two months. The vandalism has left the congregation at Stonebridge United Methodist Church apprehensive as police investigate who is responsible for the graffiti. On Sunday, an employee found a racist slur spray painted on the church’s exterior, near a dozen swastikas with the …

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 …

EAGLE PASS — Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border searched for more victims Saturday after at least nine migrants died while trying to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande, a dangerous border-crossing attempt in an area where the river level had risen by more than 2 feet in a single day. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials …

A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in Deep Ellum early Saturday. About 1:15 a.m., Dallas officers were flagged down near the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard and Commerce Street, where they found a 20-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Dallas Fire-Rescue took the man to a hospital, where he died. His identity was not released. Police said the …