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 …

Seven homes at a construction site in McKinney were destroyed or badly damaged in a fire Saturday evening. The cause of the fire at the construction site on Marigold Drive, north of U.S. Highway 380, is under investigation, said Merit Ossian, a McKinney Fire Department spokeswoman. Some of the homes were burned to the ground, Ossian said. The fire spread …

Thirteen-year-old Sia Sankaran of Dallas is raising money and collecting book donations to create 800 “grief kits” for Uvalde children who were affected by the mass shooting that took the lives of 19 students and two teachers last month. The kits will be distributed to students from pre-K to eighth grade on Thursday. The kits will include stories, journals and …

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade has sounded the bell for a new round in the fight over abortion rights that will be staged in ballot boxes instead of courtrooms. The November midterm elections provide the first test of how the nation will respond to Friday’s ruling, and activists on both sides are rallying supporters. In Texas and across the nation, …

Frederick Frazier, the Republican candidate for Texas House District 61, has been charged with two counts of impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony, after an investigation over accusations of sign-stealing during his campaign. Frederick Frazier(Richardson Police Department) A Collin County grand jury handed up its indictment of Frazier, a Dallas police officer, on Thursday. Frazier turned himself in to …

Frederick Frazier, the Republican candidate for Texas House District 61, has been charged with two counts of impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony, after an investigation over accusations of sign-stealing during his campaign. Frederick Frazier(Richardson Police Department) A Collin County grand jury handed up its indictment of Frazier, a Dallas police officer, on Thursday. Frazier turned himself in to …

Starbucks fired a worker at its Mockingbird Station store last week in what employees say is a reaction against their efforts to unionize. The coffee giant says it was just following its policies. “We expect further retaliation as our election draws closer, and the company can expect a commensurate response from us,” the store’s union Twitter page tweeted the day of the …

The Supreme Court ruled Friday in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision that established the constitutional right to an abortion and returning regulation to the states. In Texas, a “trigger ban” will go into effect within 30 days of the judgment becoming final, making nearly all abortions illegal. Officers were called to …

A construction worker died in an accident Friday morning in McKinney, Collin County authorities said. Investigators were called about 9:40 a.m. to the work site near FM543 and County Road 202, where a sewer-line trench had caved in. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as 41-year-old Paulin Sanchez. The sheriff’s office and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration …

Clinics ceased abortions and funds paused helping women obtain the procedure in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Friday overturning Roe vs. Wade. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an advisory Friday that abortion providers could be held criminally liable if prosecutors choose to enforce laws banning abortion that are still on the books, but were unenforceable under the 1973 …

Across the street from a federal building whose windows had been boarded up earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered Friday evening in downtown Dallas to express their emotions — outrage, grief, dread — following the overturning of the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling. Congregated in Civic Garden park in triple-digit temperatures and holding signs with messages like “Why …