In Fort Worth, a civil rights icon is finally returning home, an event 85 years in the making. Dr. Opal Lee, affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, saw her new home on Annie Street for the first time on Friday morning. “I only have one word – scrumptious,” she said with a laugh. “I am so happy. I just …

After a chilly start to the day Saturday, the bulk of our weekend will be dry and milder. Highs will be in the 60s on Saturday, and upper 60s to low 70s on Sunday. Mild conditions will continue into early next week with increasing clouds. Our next cold front arrives Tuesday with a drop in temperatures and rain chances likely …

After a chilly start, the bulk of our weekend will be dry and milder. We’ll see an increase in cloud cover this afternoon, but southerly winds will allow highs to reach the low 60s today, and upper 60s to low 70s on Sunday. Mild conditions will continue into early next week with increasing clouds. Our next cold front arrives Monday …

After Navaz Ebrahim’s newlywed older sister and her husband were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was mistakenly shot down by Iranian forces last month, all the Preston Hollow resident wanted to do was bring her parents to Dallas to grieve as a family. But because of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, her parents’ visas were denied Feb. 7 …

The director of Dallas’ Office of Homeless Solutions, tasked with providing services and permanent housing to the city’s growing homeless population, plans to resign, elected officials confirmed Thursday. Monica Hardman gave her notice to city officials this week, City Council members Chad West and Cara Mendelsohn said. Mendelsohn said Hardman would be moving to California for personal reasons. Her departure will …

MESQUITE — Bernie Sanders on Friday said he will win Texas on the strength of a multigenerational movement, and then oust President Donald Trump from the White House. “We’re going to win the state of Texas,” Sanders told several thousand supporters in Mesquite. “We’re going to beat Trump. We’re going to transform this country.” Sanders said Trump had steered the …

A Fort Worth woman is in custody after authorities say she took sexually explicit pictures of a toddler. Hannah Nicole Edwards, 24, faces one federal count of sexual exploitation of children. According to court documents, an undercover officer was using the Kik app when a member of a message group began sending private messages that detailed sexual abuse of two …

A jury will hear testimony next week in the death penalty trial of a man accused of ambushing Richardson police with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, killing one officer. “I wanted to go to war with the police,” Brandon McCall, 28, said from jail in February 2018. McCall is accused of shooting Richardson police Officer David Sherrard and one of his …

Authorities are referring the case of an elderly motorist who fatally struck a Carrollton boy in December to a grand jury to determine whether the driver should face a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Carrollton police also have asked the state to revoke 78-year-old Andrew Hewett’s driver’s license. Hewett, a Dallas resident, was driving a van on South Josey Lane …

A former Princeton ISD employee was arrested in Collin County on Wednesday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Larry Latham(Collin County Sheriff’s Office) Larry Latham, 69, was accused of having sexual contact with an 8-year-old boy, according to a release from the Collin County Sheriff’s Office. Latham worked for the school district from 1979 to 2002, …

Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday charged education and workforce leaders to identify specific strategies to help more students complete college or career programs that lead to high-paying jobs. Abbott wants the Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative — whose members are the commissioners of the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Workforce Commission — to look across …