polic Arlington police have taken a man into custody in connection with a violent convenience-store robbery and say they recovered evidence that may link him to a second robbery that left a man dead and his wife seriously injured. Osagie Ayanru, 18, faces a charge of aggravated robbery after an incident earlier this week at a 7-Eleven in the 1900 block …

The facades of the Dallas Police Headquarters and the Dallas Police Association were vandalized with red painted handprints after a small demonstration on Thursday. A message written in chalk at the Dallas Police Association referred to the “blood” on police hands. A chalk outline of a body featured the name Botham Shem Jean, the 26-year-old accountant who was shot and killed …

Garland police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing teenager. Soleil Elizabeth Keith, 15, was last seen about midnight Thursday at her home in the 5000 block of Wiltshire Court, near J.J. Lemmon Road. Police believe she left on her own. Soleil is described as white, 5-8 and about 205 pounds, with short brown hair and blue eyes. …

AUSTIN — State officials announced Friday that they will help nursing homes tap $3.5 million in federal funds to buy equipment that would allow more visitors during the coronavirus pandemic. Starting Monday, certified nursing homes in Texas can apply for up to $3,000 each toward purchasing plexiglass barriers for expanded indoor visits and tents to accommodate more safe gatherings outdoors, …

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced early Friday on Twitter that he has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and he will spend several days at Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment and evaluation. The 25th Amendment provides some answers about how presidential power could be transferred, either temporarily or more permanently. Trump has not invoked the amendment in this case. …

AUSTIN — Jeff Mateer, the top lawyer working under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is leaving government service to rejoin a prominent Plano-based conservative nonprofit law firm helping to nominate judges to federal courts. The First Liberty Institute hired Mateer and Hannah Clayson Smith, an attorney at Schaerr Jaffe, to work on judicial selection and “defending religious liberty across America,” Executive General …

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Democrat Joe Biden offered sympathy to President Donald Trump over his coronavirus diagnosis on Friday while casting the moment as a reminder of the worldwide health crisis that has hit the United States particularly hard. Shortly after the White House announced Trump would spend “a few days” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Biden …

Dallas County officials reported 508 more confirmed coronavirus cases in their update Friday, which included numbers for two days after a software upgrade prevented the county from releasing data Thursday. Two new COVID-19 deaths were also reported. The victims were a Dallas woman and a Garland woman, both in their 70s. County Judge Clay Jenkins said the health department’s new …

  WASHINGTON — Stricken by COVID-19, a feverish and fatigued President Donald Trump was flown to a military hospital Friday night where he is being given Remdesivir therapy after being injected with an experimental drug combination in treatment at the White House. In a day of whipsaw events, the president, who has spent months downplaying the threat of the virus, …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …