Bronx-born pop sensation Jennifer Lopez has decided to cancel her ‘This is Me….Live’ tour, citing a need for time off to be with her children, family, and close friends, according to representatives for Live Nation. Speculation about a possible split between Lopez and her husband Ben Affleck has been swirling for weeks, particularly after Lopez attended the 2024 Met Gala …

Police are investigating after a man was found fatally shot behind a shed on a vacant property early Sunday. Shortly after 4 a.m., officers were dispatched to respond to a shooting in the 800 block of Wixom Lane. Officers found a man who had been shot behind a shed on the property, police said. The man, whose identity is being …

Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Sunday that he’s been diagnosed with a bacterial infection, two days after cutting a book signing in San Antonio short because he was feeling ill. O’Rourke said doctors at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio diagnosed him with the infection and treated him with IV antibiotics. “While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at …

Dallas police made an arrest Thursday in a shooting that left one person dead and another injured in Deep Ellum last weekend. Roman Martin Pargas Jr., 23, faces a murder charge in the slaying of Ricky Burns, 26. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Just before 3 a.m. Sunday, Burns was in the 2600 block of Elm Street when …

HOUSTON — A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — early Sunday after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded …

A video of a woman going on a racist rant against a group of South Asian women went viral this week, leading to the arrest of the 58-year-old woman at the center of the clip. Esmeralda Upton faces misdemeanor charges of assault and making a terroristic threat. Plano police were called about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday to a parking lot outside a restaurant …

A case of the monkeypox virus has been confirmed at a high school in Keller ISD. The case was confirmed at Central High School in Fort Worth, KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reported, but it’s unclear whether the person with the infection is a student or an employee. The district told the outlet that local health officials determined the risk of spread in …

ROCKVILLE, Md. — President Joe Biden has much to crow about as he starts his push toward the midterms: record job growth, easing gas prices, student loan forgiveness and a flurry of laws tackling gun violence, climate change and drug prices. Yet his support remains sluggish, a big reason he picked deep blue suburban Maryland to start road testing a …

Behind its celebrity-fronted campaign, the war cry of “Don’t Mess with Texas” has a trash-filled past — literally. While Texans may see the phrase plastered on T-shirts, stickers and hats, the true meaning has slowly faded since the 1980s. That’s why a reader asked Curious Texas: “What’s the history of the phrase ‘Don’t Mess With Texas?’” Littering is a huge …

Cryptocurrency miners are accelerating their push to expand in Texas far beyond what authorities had initially expected, threatening to send the state’s electricity use skyrocketing. Enough miners have applied to connect to Texas’s power grid to use up to 33 gigawatts of electricity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the system, said in an email Friday. That’s a …

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson hopes that Saturday’s celebration at UNT Dallas becomes an annual tradition. Families, city staff and Dallas police officers gathered at the university’s South Dallas campus for the culmination of the mayor’s Summer of Safety program, which provides free and low-cost programs for youth to keep them engaged when school’s out. This summer, about 200,000 people visited …