Carroll High School and Carroll Senior High School will remain closed on Wednesday due to a reported threat. Carroll ISD officials stated that the school district received an anonymous report of a potential threat on Tuesday evening. According to Southlake police, the report referenced a message found on a bathroom stall door, mentioning the STARR test and a possible school …

An Excessive Heat Warning is in effect for the Dallas-Fort Worth area through Sunday night. High temperatures will reach from 102 to 106 with a heat index reaching 112. This is dangerous heat. Use caution and stay hydrated. Make sure you check on your elderly loved ones and neighbors. Also, make sure your pets are protected from the heat. There is the …

The year was 2000 and Verónica Cruz was incensed by abortion restrictions for rape victims in her conservative central Mexican state of Guanajuato. In defiance, Cruz formed Las Libres, the Free Ones, to provide safe abortions to those in need. That pioneering work of Cruz, now 50, has morphed into a binational network of agencies to help women and girls who want …

A one-mile stretch of roadway in the heart of Detroit could become the proving ground for a technology that promises to zap away electric vehicle owners’ fears of running out of juice. The experiment will test how to turn a road into a big wireless charging platform for EVs driving on it. The inductive charging concept is similar to how many Americans …

A new Dallas police program called the “officer wellness initiative” seeks to confront trauma officers experience on the job and improve overall mental health — which officers say is long overdue. The change was launched in part from what the department learned officers needed after five police offices were killed July 7, 2016, in an ambush at the end of what had …

Amid beach balls, books, glittery pineapples and graph paper, about a dozen rising fourth-graders spent much of their summer together on the second floor of Bush Elementary. Phyllis Pleasant reminded her class not to laugh at others’ mistakes as they read through a book out loud, analyzing the vocabulary and characters. “What do we do?” she asked. “We try to …

AUSTIN — Texas Republicans have led the charge to pass laws to restrict abortion for nearly a quarter-century, but until recently, federal courts let the procedure continue, striking down laws that impinged too much on what was for 49 years a constitutional right. Legislation on the subject appeased social conservatives, who constitute an important part of the GOP base. There wasn’t …

A Heat Advisory has been issued for all of North Texas from through Friday (and likely for the weekend). High temperatures will range from 102 to 105 with an afternoon heat index of 105 to 110. This is dangerous heat. Use caution and stay hydrated. Make sure you check on your elderly loved ones and neighbors. Also, make sure your pets are …

A new Dallas police program called the “officer wellness initiative” seeks to confront trauma officers experience on the job and improve overall mental health — which officers say is long overdue. The change was launched in part from what the department learned officers needed after five police offices were killed July 7, 2016, in an ambush at the end of what had …

WASHINGTON — The new federal law passed in response to a series of mass shootings includes provisions to better incorporate juvenile records into the federal background check system, but states vary greatly in the way they approach access to guns and the background checks themselves. As states navigate the new law, they will face pressure from critics who view gun-related scrutinizing of …

In March 2022, BioLabs cut the ribbon on its 37,000-square-foot facility at Pegasus Park. Its goal was to provide biotech and life sciences companies with the tools they need to relocate to the Dallas-Fort Worth area — and stay here. That goal appears to be coming to fruition for one of its first tenants. Just two months ago, drug discovery …