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. …

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the results of the 2020 election that included voter fraud claims he knew to be false, a federal judge said in a ruling Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter in an 18-page opinion ordered that four emails between Trump and attorney John Eastman be given to the House committee investigating the …

As high pressure moves east, our warmup is underway across North Texas. By Thursday afternoon, temperatures will be back in the upper 70s to lower-80s. For Friday into the weekend, highs will rise into the mid to upper-80s. Also, a breezy to windy southerly wind will increase the wildfire danger across the area. A chance of showers and thunderstorms returns …

AUSTIN — Texas will get its first new land commissioner in eight years in January. Former Commissioner George P. Bush’s run for Texas attorney general left the seat vacant. Bush — the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush — had served as commissioner since 2015. The Nov. 8 vote pits Democrat Jay Kleberg against …

If Interstate 345 were to be demolished, Dallas would likely have to pay for it. The cost to taxpayers to get rid of the highway that runs between Deep Ellum and downtown isn’t immediately clear and would have to be studied, assistant city manager Majed Al-Ghafry told members of the Dallas City Council on Wednesday. But a proposal to tear …

A man convicted of murdering a Muslim man during a racism-fueled mass shooting at a Dallas tire shop in 2015 now faces federal hate crime charges. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that a grand jury indicted Anthony Paz Torres, 37, on one count of hate crime resulting in death and four counts of hate crime involving attempt to kill. He also was …

Dallas County Elections Administrator Michael Scarpello stood in the county’s central vote count room, gesturing toward a tangle of wires extending from a panel of computers. The wires, he explained, remain exposed to remove any shadow of a doubt that the computers, which will tally the votes on Election Day, are not connected to the internet — a common misconception from …

WASHINGTON — In 24 of the 38 Texas U.S. House districts, the Republican congressional nominee contends President Joe Biden actually lost to Donald Trump in 2020, and four others have cast doubt on the election’s validity. Most of those GOP nominees appear to have a clear path to victory, including 18 incumbents. If all of them win, over 21 million …

Workers put together mail ballots, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 at Dallas County Election Center in Dallas.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer) A paper ballot scanner, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 at Dallas County Election Center in Dallas.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer) Rows of vote tabulators, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 at Dallas County Election Center in Dallas.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer) Rows of …

Police in Southlake shot a man who authorities said pointed a gun at the officers Monday afternoon and is believed to be involved in a fatal shooting in North Richland Hills earlier in the day. Around 12:30 p.m. officers were dispatched to the 1600 block of Weyland Drive in North Richland Hills in response to a shooting in a parking …

Police are seeking help finding a driver who fatally struck a man in Far North Dallas late Thursday. Officers were dispatched about 11:50 p.m. to the 19000 block of Marsh Lane, near Rosemeade Parkway, where they say the man, whose identity was not released, was hit by a white Ford pickup. Dallas police said the man was fatally struck by …