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Patricia Owens’ face grew red and her lips pursed as she pointed to the man accused of killing her two daughters. Their own father. “That devil there,” Owens said of Yaser Said, the man she divorced while he was on the run after the murders. Owens took the stand in a Dallas County courtroom Thursday, the third day of Said’s …

Beth Hegarty sat in a meeting at her daughters’ school when she heard gunshots. Her second-grade, triplet daughters were in Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, 2012, when 20 first-graders and six adults were killed in the country’s deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school. Hegarty’s children were “completely traumatized.” She never put her kids on the bus again. Her …

Michael Susens is 25, a strong and serious-looking young man who likes model trains and video games. He has his own YouTube channel and hopes someday to make a living reviewing and playing video games. Meanwhile, he is eager to let people know who else he is. “I have Asperger’s syndrome,” he said at a recent community open house for …

At the University of Texas at Dallas, you will find over a dozen thriving beehives with more than half a million bees. Every semester, the university offers two courses dedicated to honeybees. The campus hosts so-called pollinator events, where students learn about and appreciate these insects and animals that help fertilize plants. And the university offers sales of honey that …

Police allege 24-year-old Breana Johnson pumped gasoline into her vehicle where 25-year-old Ricky Doyle was sitting July 18 and then “intentionally ignited it.” Police said Doyle was severely burned, and they were notified of his death Tuesday Johnson was initially arrested on a charge of aggravated assault, which police said Wednesday will be upgraded to murder. She does not have …

Scientists successfully revived vital organs from deceased pigs with a technology that shows promise for organ transplantation and further blurs the line between life and death. The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, challenges the assumption that tissue death is swift and irreversible, as the scientists were able to restore the function of several organs an hour after the pigs’ …

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 …