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Authorities say a Dallas police officer is hospitalized and will face a charge of driving while intoxicated after a crash in Arlington early Thursday. Arlington police said Sgt. Michael Patino, 48, was driving south in the 6900 block of Russel Curry Road about 12:45 a.m. Thursday when his pickup left the road and crashed into a tree. Patino suffered serious …

HOUSTON — Even with the specter of a Nov. 8 general election with more moderate voters, Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is strident in his support of the rash of conservative legislation approved by lawmakers last year and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. He said lawmakers were told that legislation approved last year, including strict anti-abortion laws, a law …

A former Dallas County Sheriff’s Department employee has admitted embezzling more than $250,000 from the department’s jail inmate property fund over the course of three years. Umeka Treymane Myers, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday to one federal count of theft from a program receiving federal funds. Her attorney, Camille Knight, declined to comment. Myers was arrested in April 2021 on a state charge …

Musician and producer Pharrell Williams, who wrote the 2013 blockbuster song “Happy,” made a few college students — including one from North Texas — gleeful Friday by promising to pay off their student loans. Channing Hill reacts to learning that her student loans have been paid off.(Derrick Johnson) Channing Hill of Bedford was among the five students and recent graduates …

A Fort Worth police officer was hospitalized Friday night after a driver suspected of being intoxicated struck a patrol vehicle. The officer was helping a stranded motorist in a southbound traffic lane on the Lake Worth Bridge, near Northwest Loop 820 and Cahoba Drive, about 8 p.m. Police said the officer was behind the disabled vehicle in a patrol car …

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. on Saturday opened COVID-19 vaccines to infants, toddlers and preschoolers. The shots will become available next week, expanding the nation’s vaccination campaign to children as young as 6 months. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the vaccines for the littlest children, and the final signoff came hours later from Dr. …

The road to becoming the “grandmother of Juneteenth” took then-89-year-old Opal Lee from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., a 1,400-mile call on lawmakers to recognize a day she had honored her entire life, one that her family and Black Americans like them had honored for generations. The trek was a series of 2.5-mile marches in recognition of the enslaved Black …

An easterly wave is moving into North Texas from the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. It has resulted in isolated showers and thunderstorms across North Texas. But the emphasis is on “isolated.” No more than 20% of North Texas will actually see any rain at all. Count yourself lucky if you get any rain. Sunday looks partly cloudy and …

Opal Lee (center) greets walkers before the 2022 Opal’s Walk for Freedom on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in Fort Worth. Lee, often referred to as the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ lead her annual two and a half miles walk, representing the number of years after the Emancipation Proclamation before enslaved people in Texas learned they were free.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff …

Authorities are asking for the public’s help finding a 17-year-old boy with an intellectual disability who was last seen Friday night in Grand Prairie. Authorities are searching for 17-year-old Chadrick Avery.(Texas Department of Public Safet) The Texas Department of Public Safety issued an Endangered Missing Persons Alert on Saturday evening for Chadrick Avery. Avery was last seen walking about 11 …