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Police Chief Eddie García said Friday that a shooting that wounded three women of Korean descent at a hair salon in northwest Dallas may have been a hate crime — a day after he said police had ruled out hate as a factor. A man fired multiple shots Wednesday inside the Hair World Salon in the 2200 block of Royal Lane before fleeing …

Slightly fewer people are experiencing homelessness in Dallas and Collin counties, but more people are chronically homeless than in years past, the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance reported Friday. The number of people experiencing homelessness in the two counties during the 10-day period of the 2022 annual count was 4,410, officials said at the organization’s State of the Homelessness address. That’s …

Two people were killed and three others were injured in a Deep Ellum shooting early Friday morning, Dallas police said. Two bystanders were caught in the crossfire, police said. About 2 a.m., officers responded to the 2800 block of Elm Street, near North Crowdus Street, where, police allege, 42-year-old Jermaine Lewis and another man approached 31-year-old Quintin Lowe, who was …

A lawyer for American Airlines Group Inc. urged a jury to award the carrier almost $300 million in overcharges and lost profits, arguing that Sabre Holdings Corp. illegally dominated the market for booking airline tickets. “There’s one company in this travel business that doesn’t compete,” Paul Yetter told the jurors at the end of a three-week federal trial in Manhattan. …

The pomp and circumstance of school graduations might have a little less pomp this year. Supply-chain issues, fueled by staffing shortages and pandemic-related shutdowns in China, created a logjam for the nation’s suppliers of commencement regalia, the mortarboard caps and gowns traditionally used by American high school and college graduates. Those conditions have “created downstream effects this graduation season, and …

A fourth woman is suing Dallas developer William Lewald “Bill” Hutchinson, alleging he sexually assaulted her three times over the course of several years. The woman’s allegations were added to a lawsuit initially filed in July by a McLennan County woman who claims that Hutchinson, 63, sexually assaulted her while she was in college in an incident she partially recorded on her …

After essentially offering a concession speech earlier this week, Dallas ISD trustee Karla Garcia told The Dallas Morning News that she plans on pursuing a recount in the District 4 race she appears to have narrowly lost. Dallas County finished its canvass of votes on Friday afternoon, nearly a week after the May 7 municipal election, showing that two Dallas-area school elections’ results remained close. …

WASHINGTON — The Senate easily passed bipartisan legislation earlier this week extending police protection to the family members of Supreme Court justices, but that bill appears stalled amid disagreements over whether to also protect the families of court personnel. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced the bill after the leaking of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the landmark abortion decision Roe vs. …

A member of the “Texas 7″ prison escapees could get a new trial after the state’s highest criminal court hears more evidence of his claim that the judge in his case held antisemitic views. Randy Halprin, who is Jewish, argues that he didn’t receive a fair trial because former state District Judge Vickers Cunningham was prejudiced against him. In October, …

Antong Lucky stepped up to the front door of his rival gang’s apartment. He thought he was on a suicide mission. Inside, he could hear muffled voices, feet shuffling, and the cocking of guns. “The door swung open and these like 70 dudes, man, they had guns pointed at us,” Lucky said “And I remember I had my eyes closed …