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After near-record highs over the weekend, conditions will continue on the warm side today, but not quite as hot. Today’s highs will be in the mid 80s areawide with plentiful sunshine. A moderate south wind will continue to keep wildfire conditions in the elevated category. The forecast looks dry today and Tuesday before a chance of thunderstorms arrives late Tuesday …

A body was found in the water at White Rock Lake in Dallas on Friday afternoon. Someone on the trail around the lake spotted the body face-down in the water near the spillway about 4:30 p.m. and called 911, authorities said. Dallas Fire-Rescue used a boat to retrieve the body from the water. The Dallas County medical examiner’s office has …

Dallas police are asking for the public’s help finding the gunman they say was involved in a fatal east Oak Cliff shooting on Christmas Eve. Officers were called about 1 a.m. Dec. 24 to the 2000 block of South Beckley Avenue, near Illinois Avenue, where they found the victim lying in a parking lot and several bullet casings near the back …

A motorist is in custody after fleeing a fatal crash in west Oak Cliff on Friday afternoon, Dallas police say. Police said a black Lexus SUV was speeding east in the 3400 block of West Illinois Avenue about 5:30 p.m. when its driver lost control and collided with a gray Oldsmobile minivan. The collision caused the minivan to strike a …

Sunshine and very low humidity caused temperatures to climb to 86 at DFW Airport Saturday afternoon. And to the southwest, Stephenville, Comanche and Hamilton all reached the 90s. We will probably see 90 in DFW on Sunday. The main concern is that the sunshine and very warm temperatures will combine with very low humidity and increasing south winds to cause …

A Dallas man who sold a 19-year-old woman as a sex slave to a South Carolina man for $5,000 pleaded guilty this week to a federal charge of sex trafficking. Alfonso Orozco Juarez, 36, entered the plea Thursday as part of a plea agreement. He had also faced a charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. His attorney, Ezekiel Tyson, …

Dallas police are investigating after a man was found fatally stabbed and beaten along a Trinity River levee on Saturday. Police were called just before 10 a.m. to the 1200 block of Rock Island Street, off of Riverfront Boulevard just south of downtown Dallas. Officers found the man, who appeared to be in his 50s but has not been identified, …

Thomas King-Randall had been waiting for two hours to drop his daughters off at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in Midland, Texas. It was 10:30 p.m. on a school night in August, and it was her turn to care for the two girls. The ex-girlfriend showed up drunk and was arguing with her new boyfriend in his truck, police later wrote in …

A thick fog shrouded enemy territory in Vietnam. Reports of wounded American soldiers, lying fewer than 200 feet from enemy soldiers, poured in. Two helicopters, trying to rescue the soldiers, had already been shot down. Others tried, unable to penetrate the fog. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, who once described himself a reluctant soldier, volunteered for the mission. As …

For the eighth year in a row, Allen’s public library was honored with a rare accolade. The Texas Municipal Library Directors Association recognized the library with the 2021 Achievement of Library Excellence Award for offering “unique library services and programs” during the pandemic when parts of the building were closed to the public. In 2021, the award was bestowed to …