HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An Aldine ISD primary school teacher wants her students to stay safe while they protect themselves from COVID-19 and jam while doing it. The teacher, who goes by April Praise on Twitter, created an entire song to let her students know it’s cool to wear a mask. “All the cool kids wear a mask. All the …

Two streets in Southlake Town Square were temporarily closed Wednesday afternoon after a car hit a light pole and overturned. According to Officer Brad Uptmore, the Southlake Police Department’s public information officer, the cause of the accident was not what you might think. “Looks like the driver was at a stop sign and was attempting to show off to a …

Ceasar Ronavaz is home again after being discharged from Medical City McKinney on Tuesday, but there were moments during his bout with COVID-19 when he wasn’t certain that would be the case. A gesture of kindness from Celeste Giannelli, Ronavaz’s ICU nurse, was critical for his spirit, according to a news release and materials shared by Medical City McKinney. In what …

WASHINGTON — For the last week, TV viewers in Texas have heard a startling claim that the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate wants to legalize prostitution. She doesn’t. But Sen. John Cornyn has spent over $700,000 pushing that message statewide as part of his ongoing effort to scare suburban voters and others away from MJ Hegar. “She wants cap and …

As the McKinney High School Chamber Orchestra played the final note of Dovrak’s Slavonic-Dance No. 1, the audience applauded and then produced a noise perhaps never before heard at the end of a classical music performance: they honked their horns. It was an unexpected but perhaps natural conclusion to last week’s concert in which the school’s four orchestras performed using …

The City of Allen is asking its residents to help search for Cece — an escaped 53-pound, 205-million-year-old Coelophysis in partnership with Billings Productions, widely known as “The Dinosaur Company.” While Coelophysis were known to be meat-eaters millions of years ago, Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey told guests in a press conference on Sept. 28 that Cece is not dangerous, …

Dallas County bars are still closed as coronavirus cases climb again, but officials in the counties of Denton, Collin and Tarrant recently gave approval for bars to reopen at 50% capacity on Oct. 14, per Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement on Oct. 8. Many of the bars in these three counties, however, as well as in Dallas, had already legally reopened in past …

Dallas County reported 454 more confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday, including 443 which the county considers new and 11 from previous months. One new COVID-19 death was also reported. Labs either report coronavirus cases directly to the county health department or to the state health department, which then relays the information to individual counties. Of cases reported Wednesday, Dallas County health …

Arlington police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted on a capital murder charge in the 2019 death of a 2-year-old boy. Quentin Walker, 29, was arrested in Fort Worth, police said. He is accused in the death of Kasheton Ross. The toddler died July 18, 2019, of blunt force trauma to his head, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s …

A cold front will move through North Texas Thursday with a drop in temperatures and a gusty north wind. Much of the day will be mostly cloudy, helping to keep temperatures in the 60s and 70s. For DFW, the front will arrive around 8 am with temperatures holding steady in the low 70s, or falling into the upper 60s. Patchy …