On Friday, the Fort Worth community will have a chance to say goodbye to a basketball icon. Legendary high school basketball coach Robert Hughes will be honored in a special celebration of life that will be open to the public. He passed away earlier this month at the age of 96. The public remembrance ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. …

After a drizzly and rather cool Saturday, nicer weather is expected Sunday with more sunshine and highs near 70. High temperatures next week will be in the low to mid 70s. Halloween looks nice with sunshine during the day and highs in the low 70s. Trick-or-treat temperatures will be in the 60s Monday evening. Another chance of rain is in …

Oil companies brought in record profits once again as people worldwide struggled with high gasoline and energy prices. Exxon Mobil broke recods with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.66 billion in net income. The Irving-based company said Friday that it booked $112.07 billion in quarterly revenue, more than double its top line for the same period last …

The Republican candidate for Dallas County District Attorney, Faith Johnson, vowed to pursue the death penalty, if elected, for the man accused of killing two Methodist Dallas Medical Center employees Saturday. “Based on … the reports that’s coming out now with that Methodist hospital shooting, I will seek the death penalty on that case,” Johnson said in a candidate forum Friday hosted by the …

The rain has been quite generous across North Texas. Amounts of one to two inches have been common and it’s not done yet. Additional showers will continue Friday night, but no severe weather is expected. The showers are also likely to stretch into Saturday morning as well, although it should be much lighter by then. Saturday afternoon will be dry …

AUSTIN — With less than two weeks until Election Day, the Libertarian candidate running for attorney general has come out with an unusual suggestion: Voters should consider Democrat Rochelle Garza. In a column published Wednesday in The Amarillo Pioneer, Mark Ash wrote that Republican incumbent Ken Paxton must be ousted from office “in order to save our liberties.” “The stakes are now simply too …

Kern Wildenthal — a longtime Dallas community leader, fundraiser and medical academic — is now the namesake of the Southwestern Medical Foundation’s giving society. The renaming of the giving society, a decision which board members unanimously approved recently, is a way to honor Wildenthal, who they say has worked tirelessly over 50 years to support and ultimately transform the medical …

As North Texas businesses recover from the ongoing pandemic, local leaders are wondering exactly how to support the state and spur its growth. During a roundtable discussion Wednesday, business leaders and members of the North Texas Commission presented their priorities for Texas’ next legislative session. The commission is a public-private partnership group that advocates for issues affecting North Texans. Some members represent …

Brutus, one of the two cheetah brothers the Dallas Zoo welcomed from Ohio last year, has died unexpectedly at the age of 10, the zoo announced “with a heavy heart” Friday. While the official cause of death is unknown, the zoo said initial findings indicated kidney failure, “a common issue in older cats.” The median life expectancy for cheetahs is …

Nayeli Soto saw her life flash before her eyes when her mother’s ex-boyfriend turned a gun on her. Two shots rang out, both striking Soto in the abdomen. In that instant, Soto thought she was going to die. She had just watched in horror as Jorge Saldenos Escobar Flores shot her mother, Karla Castillo. The early hours of July 14 …

A shooting in Fort Worth on Friday morning left a man dead and a woman hospitalized in an apparent murder-suicide attempt. Officers were dispatched about 9:20 a.m. to the 6400 block of Meadowbrook Drive, near Interstate 820. Police said a husband and wife, both in their 50s, had an argument, and the man shot the woman multiple times in her …