Surveillance footage from outside a downtown Dallas bar shows a man assaulting an innocent bystander with a long stick out of nowhere, then punching another man in the face before making his escape. It happened outside City Tavern on Elm Street just before 2 a.m. on Saturday. Dallas police are searching for the suspect. NBC 5 spoke with the first …

A Collin County fifth-grade teacher was killed Sunday night in a murder-suicide, according to the Josephine Police Department. Officers responded to a report of gunfire at a home in the 700 block of Mallard Street about 8:10 p.m. and discovered the bodies of 41-year-old Lacie Moore and her husband, 37-year-old Brian Moore. Police said Tuesday that Lacie Moore was the …

Warm and dry weather will be the rule across North Texas for the next several days. Humidity levels will remain rather low through Thursday, so even though it will be warm, it won’t be uncomfortable. Highs will be in the low 90s with lows in the upper 60s. The weekend will be hotter and noticeably more humid. The heat index …

Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit …

The morning of Andre Emmett’s fatal shooting, officers couldn’t find shell casings or a trail of blood to explain the man they found on all fours, bleeding out on an Old East Dallas street. Had he been dumped on the side of the road? Was he shot in a car and pushed out? In tearful testimony Tuesday, his mother, Regina Oliver, …

Dallas police and criminologists say the city’s violent-crime plan is working and point to the 11.5% drop in the total number of “street-level” violent crimes in the 12 months after its conception in May 2021. Mike Smith and Rob Tillyer, University of Texas at San Antonio criminologists who helped develop the crime plan, told the Dallas City Council’s public safety …

Not everyone has to like it, but a crash that cropped up Monday afternoon involving a truck that was carrying corn and other canned vegetables caused traffic delays on U.S. Highway 75 in Richardson. Shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, the Dallas office of the Texas Department of Transportation tweeted that the north and southbound HOV lanes of the highway near …

Earlier this year, when Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson named Lynn McBee as his workforce czar, he said that boosting workforce development efforts in the city was a “top mayoral priority.” On Monday, a partnership was announced to help with that. Dallas startup UpSmith and American Residential Services are leading efforts to create “high-purpose, high-pay, high-dignity career opportunities” across Texas for …

A professor sued Texas A&M University, alleging that a faculty fellowship program aimed at boosting diversity discriminates against white and Asian men. “These discriminatory, illegal, and anti-meritocratic practices have been egged on by woke ideologues who populate the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion offices at public and private universities,” the lawsuit reads. Richard Lowery, who teaches finance at the University …

A stolen car crashed into a South Dallas pizza restaurant Monday, leaving several injured, a business in turmoil and a young mother without transportation. For two women, it was a day they would not soon forget. Dorothy Jones, owner of the popular Black Jack Pizza, was enjoying herself on Monday morning, doing the things she usually does on her day …

A former Azle ISD student is in custody and is accused of sending threatening messages over social media and text messages, according to the school district. Authorities were notified of the threats Sunday and investigated the threats, according to the Azle Police Department. Around 5 p.m. Monday, the suspect, whose name has not been released by authorities, was taken into …