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The Supreme Court ruled Friday in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision that established the constitutional right to an abortion and returning regulation to the states. In Texas, a “trigger ban” will go into effect within 30 days of the judgment becoming final, making nearly all abortions illegal. Officers were called to …

A construction worker died in an accident Friday morning in McKinney, Collin County authorities said. Investigators were called about 9:40 a.m. to the work site near FM543 and County Road 202, where a sewer-line trench had caved in. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as 41-year-old Paulin Sanchez. The sheriff’s office and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration …

Clinics ceased abortions and funds paused helping women obtain the procedure in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Friday overturning Roe vs. Wade. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an advisory Friday that abortion providers could be held criminally liable if prosecutors choose to enforce laws banning abortion that are still on the books, but were unenforceable under the 1973 …

Across the street from a federal building whose windows had been boarded up earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered Friday evening in downtown Dallas to express their emotions — outrage, grief, dread — following the overturning of the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling. Congregated in Civic Garden park in triple-digit temperatures and holding signs with messages like “Why …

WASHINGTON – Anti-abortion activists chanted “Goodbye, Roe” and “We are the post-Roe generation” Friday outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the ruling that overturned the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. On the opposing side, protesters countered with cries of, “We will aid and abet abortion,” and “We’re not going anywhere.” Paxton Smith, the Lake Highlands High School valedictorian who delivered her 2021 speech …

Police are looking for a 41-year-old man after the slaying of a teenager this week in West Dallas. Officers were called about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 3300 block of Rutz Street, near Dennison Street, where they found 18-year-old Jose Cruz fatally shot. Police said Friday that although detectives initially believed the shooting was a suicide, they determined that the …

A man was found fatally stabbed Thursday evening at a park in Far North Dallas, police said Friday. Officers were called just after 5 p.m. to Valley View Park at 700 Valley View Lane, near Hillcrest Road, and found a man lying on the ground between two cars. He had multiple stab wounds and died there, police said. The Dallas …

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris met with attorneys general from seven Democratic-led states on Thursday and suggested they might be able to lead legal challenges of any new state abortion restrictions that grow out of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling expected to weaken the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Harris has increasingly become a leading White House voice on the issue …

WASHINGTON — Congress is poised to pass the most significant legislation to curb gun violence in nearly 30 years, and red flag laws have been a key point of deliberation — and a key source of hang ups — for the bipartisan Senate group negotiating the legislation. The current bill includes neither a federal red flag law nor a mandate for state …

At least three men were wounded Wednesday in a shooting in southeast Dallas, police say. Police said they found the men just before 4 p.m. in two locations about six miles apart after gunshots were fired in the 1600 block of Key Biscayne Drive, not far from Interstate 20. One man who was shot was near where the shooting happened. …