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A Silver Alert was issued Thursday afternoon for an 86-year-old man last seen in Granbury. The Hood County Sheriff’s Office said Donald Carver was last seen about noon Wednesday walking in the 400 block of East Road, near Tommie Faye Drive. Carver has been diagnosed with a cognitive impairment and his disappearance is a threat to his safety, police said. …

AUSTIN — Texas is scrambling to come up with nearly a half-billion dollars to pay the growing tab for its decision to post National Guard soldiers at the southern border. As foreshadowed by a top aide to Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this month, Texas will free up general-purpose state revenue that lawmakers previously budgeted for salaries of state workers by tapping …

A woman is in custody after Dallas police say a 66-year-old homeless man who was stabbed last June in east Oak Cliff later died from his injuries. Jasmine Malone, 33, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of murder. It’s unclear whether she has an attorney. Police said officers were called to a commercial area in the 4800 block of Sunnyvale Street, …

Haltom City police are looking for an erratic driver who fled a traffic stop and injured a pedestrian Thursday night. About 8:55 p.m., a patrol officer saw a tan car — possibly a Nissan — run over a curb and weave through traffic near Shipp Drive, police said. When the officer tried to conduct a traffic stop, the driver fled …

AUSTIN – State troopers are banking huge sums of overtime – some more than six figures in a year – under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security push. Since the operation began in March 2021, the Texas Department of Public Safety has paid at least $68 million in overtime to officers sent to the U.S.-Mexico border. The expenses add to the …

AUSTIN — Health care costs for teachers and other school district employees won’t increase next school year, and some might see a one-time decrease in their premiums, GOP state leaders have announced. On Friday, a teacher group lobbyist said the move averts “a pretty whopping increase” that nearly 500,000 educators and their dependents were likely to face in the fiscal …

Tenants at Hillcrest Apartments in Mesquite say they’ve complained for years about the same problems: a lack of AC and heat, frequent water leaks, electrical issues, moldy walls and feces bubbling up from drain. Now, the complex faces various lawsuits — including one from the city of Mesquite. The city’s lawsuit against Hillcrest comes at a pivotal time when North …

A Dallas council member’s ties to a builder threatening to sue the city over losing out on an $11.5 million contract has left some other elected officials questioning if the city’s disclosure laws offer enough transparency. Council member Omar Narvaez didn’t recuse himself Wednesday when he was one of three members pushing for the city attorney’s office to reexamine the …

A group of students at a Garland ISD high school have been suspended after making threats online about harming and killing other students. Garland police said the group of students from Naaman Forest High School have been suspended indefinitely and are not allowed on Garland ISD property, police said. Police said there is no immediate threat to the campus. It’s …

The city of Dallas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision allowing a civil-rights case to proceed against several Dallas police officers involved in the 2016 death of Tony Timpa. The move comes three months after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals paved the way for the case to be heard in front of a jury. Geoff Henley, …