Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa has been named as the 2020 Urban Educator of the Year by the Council of the Great City Schools. Hinojosa, 64, was presented the award this week in a virtual ceremony during the Council’s 64th annual fall conference. He was the lone finalist for the honor, also known as the Green-Garner Award. “Michael Hinojosa has …

Dallas County health officials confirmed 462 coronavirus cases, all of which were considered new, and 20 additional deaths Friday — the most deaths reported on a single day since late August. The cases are part of a “new and escalating wave” of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said at a news conference Friday. At the …

Congressional District 32 incumbent Rep. Colin Allred and Republican challenger Genevieve Collins clashed on Friday over heath care, taxes and who’s best qualified to lead their northern and eastern Dallas County district. During a debate for Sunday’s edition of Lone Star Politics, the political show produced by The Dallas Morning News and KXAS-TV (NBC5), Collins accused Allred of supporting a tax increase during a pandemic …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up President Donald Trump’s policy, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the census count that will be used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. Never in U.S. history have immigrants been excluded from the population count that determines how House seats, …

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 …

The weekend will feature intervals of clouds and sun, and a bit of a warm up with breezy south winds. High temperatures will be in the mid 70s Saturday, increasing into the mid 80s on Sunday. The next cold front arrives Sunday night into Monday. A stray shower or storm is possible in Northeast Texas, but no severe weather is …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Glynnda Steinford, a 65-year-old mother and grandmother, say she has always been in good health and stayed active. Steinford said when she felt a bump on her arm, she didn’t think much of it. “I started hitting my arm in the same place, which at first, I thought what was wrong with me. Then it would …

Construction on the Elysian Viaduct bridge north of downtown Houston will close I-10 in both directions Oct. 16-19, the Texas Department of Transportation has announced. The closure starts at 8 p.m. Oct. 16, affecting the eastbound lanes of I-10 between Shepherd Drive and I-69 and the westbound lanes between I-69 and I-45.   Crews will be making repairs to the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A suspect accused of shooting a Houston firefighter with a pellet gun has been arrested, according to police. Firefighters were responding to a fire at a storage unit just before noon on Friday in the 12400 block of Fondren Road when one of them was shot in the back with a pellet gun, HFD said. The …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Lemuel “DJ” Bruce was one of six Houston Fire Department arson investigators serving surveillance in a Heights area neighborhood early Friday morning before he was shot and killed while following the suspected gunman, sources close to the investigation told ABC13. On Friday, Houston police confirmed the identity of the shooting suspect as 30-year-old Joshua Delacerda. Houston …