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 …

Hot and windy weather is in store for North Texas today. Afternoon highs in the upper 90s will accompany a strong, gusty south wind over 30 mph. The sky will be mostly cloudy to partly sunny. The humidity will make it feel like 100-102. Some Saharan dust in the upper levels of the atmosphere will make the sky a bit …

Most Dallas residents say they feel safe although nearly 4 in 10 of them say they’ve experienced an uptick in shootings and homicides in their neighborhoods, a new poll found. Respondents to the 500-person survey by Suffolk University/The Dallas Morning News said they think Dallas is a safe city to live, expressed tempered satisfaction with policing and opposed cutting funding to …

A Dallas City Council meeting on whether to keep or fire City Manager T.C. Broadnax has been delayed a week after some council withdrew their support for an expedited review of Dallas’ top administrative official’s job performance. The council deliberation is now set to occur June 23, which was the original planned date for the council to carry out an annual performance …

Former Highland Park resident John Hinckley Jr. was 25 when he purchased two revolvers for $47 each from Rocky’s Pawn Shop in Dallas on Oct. 13, 1980, with no waiting period or verified background check. Months later he used one of the revolvers in the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan that also wounded three others outside the Washington Hilton in …

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate working group had barely announced its framework agreement for addressing gun violence when hardline Second Amendment defenders slammed the proposal. “Here we go again, Republican legislators compromising your rights and getting nothing in return,” tweeted Gun Owners of America, which bills itself as the “only no compromise gun lobby” in Washington. Former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes denounced the …

WASHINGTON — As part of its crackdown on illegal gun trafficking, the Justice Department said Monday it caught a Dallas man who’d illegally bought and sold nearly a hundred weapons, one of which was used in an Arlington murder last fall. Most came from a single Waxahachie dealer that lost its gun seller license last month. And the buyer, Demontre Antwon …

We’ve got a lot of systems failing at City Hall right now — construction permits and affordable housing, to name two. For people like me, who are paid to stay on top of these issues, for quite a while it’s felt that none of these critical city services are improving — nor that sufficient urgency is even being applied to …

Two paramedics who were in the ambulance when a Black transgender woman became unresponsive in authorities’ care last month have had their credentials temporarily suspended pending an investigation. The woman’s family says her treatment by first responders who handcuffed her, used a spit hood and briefly kneeled on her was inhumane and discriminatory. Body-camera footage released Wednesday shows officers and Dallas …

Among the seven Texans who were among the members of the white supremacist Patriot Front group arrested while trying to disrupt a pride event in Idaho, one hhas a pending felony case in Dallas County and another is a founder of the group, according to court and police records and research by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Authorities in Idaho arrested 31 …

WASHINGTON — Trevor Reed, the Marine veteran and Fort Worth native who spent nearly three years in a Russian gulag after his 2019 arrest, filed a petition with the United Nations on Monday in an attempt to hold Russia accountable for the poor treatment he said he received in prison. According to a press release from Reed family spokesman Jonathan …