“May the Fourth be with you,” get ready to hear that a lot this Saturday as the annual celebration for fans of all things Star Wars. To celebrate, Heritage Auctions is taking bids on an extremely rare prototype of a Star Wars action figure of the character Boba Fett which is expected to sell for more than $250,000. The man who created …

U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson received a fond farewell at her final Texas Democratic Convention representing Dallas’ 30th Congressional District. Johnson, who is retiring from the House at the end of her term, received a standing ovation as she took the stage. “I’m retiring from Congress in January, but if the Lord lets me live, I’m not retiring from the Democratic Party,” …

A 24-year-old Dallas man is in custody after police say he had a sexual relationship with a minor and set fire to her garage after an argument. Alexsi Lopez Hernandez is facing charges of arson and sexual assault of a child. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Police say early July 4, Lopez set a fire in the garage …

Beto O’Rourke will recommit to delegates at the Texas Democratic Party convention Friday in Dallas but flirt with independents and Republicans on the outside. The former El Paso congressman and Democratic nominee for governor needs a united front from Democrats to have a chance to upend incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November. A recent poll showed him trailing the governor by …

A company that operates an asphalt shingle plant that residents of a West Dallas neighborhood have sought to shut down for the last two years says it will try to close it by 2029. But residents say they want it gone much sooner. This week marks the first time New Jersey-based roofing manufacturer GAF has expressed any intention to leave the Singleton …

AUSTIN — As Texas Democrats arrive in Dallas this week, don’t look for them to generate national headlines as the Republicans did in Houston last month. Republicans may have declared that President Joe Biden wasn’t legitimately elected, that schools should teach the “Humanity of the Preborn Child” and that U.S. senators should be chosen by legislatures, not voters. But Texas Democrats would rather project …

A North Texas jury awarded a former Southwest Airlines flight attendant $5.3 million after she was fired for sending anti-abortion messages to her union’s president. The jury in the U.S. District Court case found that the Dallas-based airline and the flight attendants’ union, Transport Workers Union Local 556, violated her rights as a worker to advocate against her union. The jury said …

A Lone Oak man is behind bars after he arranged to have sex with an undercover officer posing online as a 13-year-old girl. James Alfred Moad, 51, faces a charge of online solicitation of a minor under 14 years old. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. On June 30, Moad replied to a Craigslist ad posted by the undercover …

NEW YORK — Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. She was 73. The former president posted on his social media app that she died at her …

AUSTIN — The Texas Medical Association wants regulators to step in after hospitals reportedly refused to treat patients with serious pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban. In a letter sent Wednesday to the Texas Medical Board, the association said it received complaints that hospitals, their administrators and their lawyers may be prohibiting physicians from providing medically appropriate …

A Forth Worth police detective was arrested Thursday morning after he was accused of breaking into a house to confront a teenager he suspected of stealing. Detective Bryan Lafaurie faces a burglary charge. He was booked into the Tarrant County Jail with bail set at $15,000 Thursday morning. He will be stripped of police powers and placed on restrictive duty …