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For the second time in as many months, several dozen protesters packed the Dallas City Council chambers and demanded the governing body pass a resolution supporting a cease-fire in Gaza. Chants of “Free free Palestine” and “Cease-fire now” rang out as people walked out of the Council chambers late Wednesday morning at the end of the public comment portion of the meeting …

The coldest day of the winter season in North Texas is looming ahead this weekend, but those conditions will be preceded by a cold front Thursday evening, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The front Thursday evening could bring showers to parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but there is not a high chance of storms turning severe, said …

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo announced Wednesday afternoon that the annual All Western Parade will go on at 11 a.m. Saturday as planned. However, the parade will follow a modified route because of street closures in downtown Fort Worth resulting from Monday’s explosion at the Sandman Signature Hotel. Officials are still investigating the cause of the explosion at 810 …

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott, thwarted in his efforts to create a school voucherlike program last year, has rebuilt his campaign war chest just in time for a Republican primary in which he promises to be a player. Abbott’s campaign announced Wednesday that he raised over $19 million for his two political accounts in the last six months of 2023. …

Former Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was laid to rest Wednesday in Austin, ending three days of tribute and mourning for the trailblazing public servant who helped change the face of North Texas. Johnson, 89, was buried at Texas State Cemetery, a few blocks east of the Capitol where she once served as a member of the Texas House and Senate before …

Three Dallas strip clubs are asking a federal judge to block the city from shutting them down at 2 a.m. if the businesses stop featuring sex work during that time and mainly operate as restaurants instead. The city disagrees. The owners of XTC Cabaret, Silver City and Tiger Cabaret are suing Dallas, claiming they’re being illegally threatened with sanctions by police after …

A man federal prosecutors believe was one of the largest suppliers of deadly blue fentanyl pills that led to a rash of overdoses and killed Carrollton-Farmers Branch high school students was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison. Like the other dealers already sentenced, Jason Xavier Villanueva, 23, was not long out of high school when he used his …

A local activist has filed a petition to recall Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, citing his political party switch to Republican and missing City Council meetings last year. Davante Peters, a Dallas health store owner who has run for City Council three times, said he has received a little more than 1,000 signatures in favor of ousting the two-term mayor as of Tuesday. Peters said he …

WASHINGTON – The federal government is putting up another $15 million to help fill gaps in North Texas electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The Federal Highway Administration grant to the North Central Texas Council of Governments is to install up to 100 public EV charging ports in the 16-county Dallas-Fort Worth region, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, announced Tuesday. The five-year grant …

This past year was the hottest on record, according to analysis from a European climate agency. 2023′s global average temperature of 14.98 degrees Celsius (58.96 degrees Fahrenheit) beat the previous record-holder, 2016, by 0.17 degrees Celsius, the agency Copernicus announced Tuesday. Last year’s temperatures were also 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial times. That figure is narrowly below …