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 …

WASHINGTON – Anti-abortion activists chanted “Goodbye, Roe” and “We are the post-Roe generation” Friday outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the ruling that overturned the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. On the opposing side, protesters countered with cries of, “We will aid and abet abortion,” and “We’re not going anywhere.” Paxton Smith, the Lake Highlands High School valedictorian who delivered her 2021 speech …

Police are looking for a 41-year-old man after the slaying of a teenager this week in West Dallas. Officers were called about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 3300 block of Rutz Street, near Dennison Street, where they found 18-year-old Jose Cruz fatally shot. Police said Friday that although detectives initially believed the shooting was a suicide, they determined that the …

A man was found fatally stabbed Thursday evening at a park in Far North Dallas, police said Friday. Officers were called just after 5 p.m. to Valley View Park at 700 Valley View Lane, near Hillcrest Road, and found a man lying on the ground between two cars. He had multiple stab wounds and died there, police said. The Dallas …

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris met with attorneys general from seven Democratic-led states on Thursday and suggested they might be able to lead legal challenges of any new state abortion restrictions that grow out of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling expected to weaken the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Harris has increasingly become a leading White House voice on the issue …

WASHINGTON — Congress is poised to pass the most significant legislation to curb gun violence in nearly 30 years, and red flag laws have been a key point of deliberation — and a key source of hang ups — for the bipartisan Senate group negotiating the legislation. The current bill includes neither a federal red flag law nor a mandate for state …

At least three men were wounded Wednesday in a shooting in southeast Dallas, police say. Police said they found the men just before 4 p.m. in two locations about six miles apart after gunshots were fired in the 1600 block of Key Biscayne Drive, not far from Interstate 20. One man who was shot was near where the shooting happened. …

WASHINGTON — Sharing the story of his own chilling experience with gun violence, Uvalde Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales said he would vote for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which supporters hope will be quickly passed by the Senate. “As a Congressman it’s my duty to pass laws that never infringe on the Constitution while protecting the lives of the innocent,” Gonzales …

Two more cases of monkeypox have been reported in Dallas County, health officials said Wednesday. The cases were in residents who recently traveled to Spain and Mexico, the county’s health department said. Health officials are in contact with the sick individuals and monitoring them for symptoms. The county is also working with the state health department and the federal Centers …

A federal jury on Wednesday awarded a former McKinney resident almost $60,000 in damages after her home was destroyed during a McKinney Police SWAT raid nearly two years ago. The jury ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 after her home suffered extensive damage during a SWAT raid while police pursued a fugitive in a July 2020 standoff at …

A plastics manufacturer will pay Grand Prairie $200,000 to help with expenses related to a massive industrial fire at its plant in 2020. Fire broke out at Poly-America in August 2020, burning for 23 hours before firefighters from Grand Prairie and surrounding cities managed to extinguish it. Grand Prairie’s tab exceeded $235,000, according to city documents, including $130,748 in mutual aid …