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    Four-day Sister Cities International (SCI) Conference held in Houston, By: Amir Makhani Houston:More than 700 elected municipal officials representative, business leaders, diplomats and students gathered in Houston from July 16-19 to participate in the  Sister Cities International (SCI) Conference and Sister Cities International Youth Leadership Summit celebrating the organization’s 62nd anniversary. Participants engaged in a Parade of Flags, …

Jurors in the Tarrant County capital murder trial of a popular rapper on Wednesday heard from the victim’s roommate who testified he was set up by his own girlfriend. The artist, Taymor McIntyre, is better known as Tay-K 47. He’s charged with participating in a robbery and murder during a home invasion in Mansfield three years ago. The house belonged …

The U.S. is preparing to send 500 troops to Saudi Arabia in response to rising tensions with Iran, CNN reported, citing unidentified defense officials. They will be based at the Prince Sultan air base and are part of the additional 1,000 troops the Pentagon announced last month it was sending to the Middle East, CNN said. The U.S. chose the …

Dozens of Dallas police officers on Friday received letters notifying them they’re under internal investigations for their social-media posts. The announcement comes about a month after researchers with The Plain View Project published a database of years of public Facebook posts from eight departments that the database’s creators said “could undermine public trust and confidence in police.” The posts included …

DALLAS (AP) — A former Dallas Cowboys player previously convicted in a drunken driving crash that killed a teammate is now wanted for violating his probation. The Dallas County Sheriff’s office says a warrant was issued for the arrest of Josh Brent after the former defensive lineman was charged with assaulting a police officer. Brent was arrested Sunday in the …

Two men were arrested early Tuesday after leading police on a pursuit following a carjacking in northwest Houston, according to police. One of the suspects, Horace Marquese Harris, 20, was reportedly out on bond for a capital murder charge in Harris County, police said. The other suspect, later identified as Marqui Lamon Davis, had two previous robbery convictions, police said. …

A man was shot and killed in Conroe Saturday in connection with an on-going business feud with a storage facility owner. James Robert Hixson, 69, allegedly tried to use his golf cart to run over the wife of Lawrence Mahon, the storage facility owner. He then charged at Mahon, according to police interviews Mahon, who has an an open carry …

The United States Marshal Service is hunting for a convicted murderer who cut off his ankle monitor and skipped out on the final day of his murder trial. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said Friday morning that the defendant, 25-year-old Rene Adrian Carillo, was found guilty of fatally shooting Jean Carlo Casiano-Torres outside Dallas’ Club XTC in October 2017 …

A homeless man has been arrested for breaking into cars in several Fort Worth neighborhoods and stealing money and at least two guns. Eric Christian, 19, is held on $5,000 bond. He admitted to breaking into at least 30 vehicles in the Ryan Place, Berkeley Place and Mistletoe Heights neighborhoods. “He said he would be out all night doing this …

A 15-year-old Ohio boy is dead, shot by a woman he was allegedly trying to rob, Cincinnati police said Thursday. Now, another 15-year-old who helped rob the victim is facing a murder charge The alleged robbery happened Saturday in the 3600 block of Reading Road in Cincinnati’s Avondale neighborhood. According to police, Jordan Lara, 15, and another 15-year-old tried to …