Dallas Police responded to a disturbance call at 5850 Beltline Road around 6:45 p.m. on Friday. According to their preliminary investigation, a man had committed aggravated assault involving family violence with a knife. Upon arrival, officers found a woman inside a tent and a man holding a knife beside the tent in a wooded area behind an apartment complex. Despite …

Dallas police are investigating a fatal shooting of a man in the Casa Linda neighborhood early Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place shortly after noon in the 11700 block of Rupley Lane, near Jupiter and Garland roads, where responding officers found the unidentified man dead of an apparent gunshot wound. A witness told police that he was called by a …

As a mayor in Guatemala, Erik Salvador Suniga Rodriguez was well protected in his native country, even as he sent multiple tons of cocaine into the U.S., federal prosecutors say. Now, Suniga Rodriguez sits in a jail cell in the Eastern District of Texas, awaiting trial in Plano on charges that he conspired to distribute the drugs. U.S. Attorney Joseph …

CEDAR HILL — When Tammy Kirk wanted to get dressed up, her daughter was her go-to. LaTiffiney Rodgers knew how to do her mother’s hair and doll her up with makeup, even applying her false eyelashes. It wasn’t about the makeup. It was about their moments together. Tammy Kirk, mother of LaTiffiney Rodgers, who was fatally shot and her sons …

Bernie Sanders will hold a Valentine’s Day rally Friday at the Mesquite Arena, his first Dallas County visit since he launched his 2020 primary campaign for president. Doors for the Vermont senator’s event will open at 6 p.m. He has no other Texas stops scheduled, but will make two stops in North Carolina earlier in the day. Sanders has shot …

 Revised to include comment from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz after earlier updates included comment from Democratic contenders vying to take on Sen. John Cornyn in the general election. WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to dismiss two key impeachment witnesses from posts within his administration in the days after the president was acquitted …

WASHINGTON — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby told senators on Tuesday that states passing laws allowing college athletes to make endorsement money will destabilize the NCAA. He asked the Senate to step in and create uniform restrictions. “I fear that if we adopt a process that permits per se ‘play for pay’ or any proxy for ‘pay for play’ we …

AUSTIN — Texas passed some of the most comprehensive legislation confronting college sexual misconduct and hazing in 2019, but legislators and advocates acknowledged at a Tuesday state panel that the new laws don’t provide a perfect solution. Some lawmakers raised questions about the impact of Texas’ new measures against sexual misconduct, and advocates said a new law targeting hazing on …

NASHUA, N.H. — Sen. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, a performance that anointed the democratic socialist as the front-runner while Democrats also conferred decisive stamps of approval on two moderates, Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. For Joe Biden, the two-term vice president, a weak finish put his campaign on death watch, a stunning setback …

LEWISVILLE — Michelle Beckley, a Carrollton bird shop owner, shocked many when she ousted a Republican state representative in historically conservative Denton County last election. Now, the freshman Democrat is fighting to protect her seat amid challenges from the left and right in a swing district her party will need to hold if it wants to seize control of the …

Mesquite police arrested a pastor from a Baptist church in Coppell on Monday on a charge of sexually assaulting a child. Jason Thomas(Mesquite Police Department) Authorities said they learned last month of the accusation against 40-year-old Jason Thomas, an associate minister of worship at Valley Ranch Baptist Church. Police said the alleged abuse involved a girl younger than 14 but …