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Dallas police are asking for the public’s help finding a 78-year-old man last seen Thursday morning in the Lake Highlands area. Samuel Heard was last seen around 10:30 a.m. walking in the 10000 block of Shoreview Road, just north of White Rock Lake. He may be in need of help, police said. Heard is described as a Black man who …

Even after the man suspected of killing a prominent Dallas lawyer nearly six years ago moved to Florida months after the slaying, Dallas police continued to gather and evaluate evidence and found numerous clues that appeared to link him to the crime, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit obtained Thursday. Among the evidence that Dallas police detailed in the warrant for …

Dallas city officials say they have resolved a four-year contract dispute with Dallas County over use of the jail but won’t publicly disclose specifics of the new deal. The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved restarting payments to the county to book and hold people at the Lew Sterrett jail after withholding funds for a year until the contract was updated. According …

They knew what the waiting was like, but they didn’t know what to expect this time. They’d been here before, at the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts Building, waiting in a room in the district attorney’s office. That time, in November, hours crawled by as they waited for a verdict which never came. This time, they knew they must wait — …

A second man is in custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a man outside a west Oak Cliff convenience store earlier this month. Gabriel Granado, 21, was arrested Thursday on a murder charge in the slaying of 35-year-old David Garcia, police said. Dallas police previously said Garcia was 38. Granado did not appear in jail records Thursday evening. …

The family members of more than a dozen people who died in 737 Max crashes are pushing a North Texas federal judge to reopen the case against Boeing because the deal with the federal government doesn’t hold the airplane maker accountable. Lawyers for victims’ family members are scheduled to be in federal court in Fort Worth on Tuesday to ask …

WASHINGTON — Critics of the Fort Worth-made F-35 joint strike fighter seized on a fresh report this week highlighting delays and deficiencies that continue to dog America’s most expensive weapons program. That report feeds into renewed criticism that comes as the Pentagon proposes at least temporarily paring back its annual order of the planes, a move that faces resistance from Texans …

CRANE COUNTY — It was half an hour past sunset in the sand hills of the Permian Basin — still too light for the stars to come out, but dark enough that deep indigo horizon to the east showed many of the night’s first illuminations — the orange glow of about a dozen flaring natural gas pipes. Sarah Stogner sat …

On the sunset of 33 years as senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, George Mason says though church life in America can often be “hard and tumultuous,” he’s feeling “gratitude” as his tenure ends. “It’s practice for dying, when you let go of a career and transition in a sense. I don’t mean to be overly dramatic, but we are …

A warm and windy pattern is well established across North Texas. This will ensure another day with a breezy south wind and high in the 80s. There’s a slight chance for an isolated thunderstorm this evening up toward the Red River, but DFW will stay dry. Warm and windy weather can be expected with highs in the 80s this weekend. …