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A lawyer who helped make payments on behalf of Jerry Jones to a woman who claims he is her biological father says that millions of dollars were paid to her and her mother and alleges that she demanded an additional $20 million from Jones several years ago. According to a lawsuit filed March 3, Jones had his friend and lawyer …

A tornado briefly touched down in Rockwall County early Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth confirmed. The tornado, categorized as an EF-1, touched down for two minutes around 4:35 am in McLendon-Chisholm. Winds reached a maximum of 100 mph, and the storm tracked for less than half a mile before lifting, the weather service said. At least eight …

AUSTIN — A federal judge on Wednesday asked for a federal criminal probe of possible child pornography production and distribution at a Bastrop County facility for young sex-trafficking victims. U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack also blasted the administration of Gov. Greg Abbott for allegedly downplaying the severity of misconduct by employees of the facility, The Refuge for DMST, or …

A lawsuit alleging priests at Jesuit College Preparatory School Dallas sexually abused students there in the late 1970s and early 1980s has been settled. In a letter sent Wednesday to the local Jesuit community, school president Mike Earsing said he believed the accounts told by nine Dallas-area men who brought a lawsuit against the school, the Catholic Diocese of Dallas …

WASHINGTON — The practice of expelling migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in the name of COVID-19 protection could end in late May. The Biden administration has drafted a plan to end pandemic-related border restrictions known as Title 42 by May 23, according to multiple news outlets. Those restrictions have been used more than 1.7 million times for expulsions since the …

An East Texas man is in custody after police say his son’s body was found in his home nearly four years after his death. Officers in New Boston, about 20 miles west of Texarkana, were called Tuesday evening to David McMichael’s home in the 1200 block of South Merrill Street for a welfare check. Police did not say why the …

During the winter, Carolina Paz struggled to cover the costs of feeding her family. Even though money was tight, she decided to not ask for any federal aid, thinking it could have an effect on her migration process. Originally from Honduras, Paz arrived in the United States a little over a year ago seeking asylum. She fled her country due to violence …

North Texas pharmacies and health departments are gearing up to give additional COVID-19 vaccine boosters to eligible patients following a decision by U.S. regulators to offer more protection to populations most vulnerable to severe coronavirus infections. Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration approved a fourth dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to people who are age 50 …

In the past five years, transgender Texans have weathered debate over barring them from bathrooms, an ongoing epidemic of violence and murder and, now, orders from the state to investigate their family members for abuse when youth receive certain treatments for gender dysphoria. For such a small community — just about 125,000 adult Texans identified as transgender according to a study released by the Williams Institute …

In July 1984, the Rev. Edmundo Rodriguez received a familiar phone call about one of his priests. A family in Louisiana reported to their church that the Rev. Don Dickerson had made sexual advances toward their 12-year-old son. This was the sixth allegation against Dickerson of sexual misconduct with young boys and Shreveport was the third city the Society of …