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Showers likely later tonight and Tuesday


January 28, 2020

Tuesday offers our next chance of rain as the next storm system moves through the area. This system will generate showers across North Texas, with the highest concentration just east of DFW. However, even for the metroplex, the chance of rain will be high especially early in the day. The showers will end by Tuesday night. Another chance of rain …

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Morning showers, then dry before redeveloping showers and storms this afternoon


January 28, 2020

Widespread showers are in place this early Tuesday morning. The rain will make for a wet commute. However, after the initial batch of rain moves through, much of the midday hours will be dry. Redeveloping showers (and a few storms) are likely this afternoon. Some brief downpours are possible for the drive home. Finally, this evening will bring an end …

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Trump impeachment team spotlights Bidens’ alleged corruption as Bolton bombshell hangs over trial


January 28, 2020

WASHINGTON — Shrugging aside bombshell revelations from the former national security adviser as irrelevant to the impeachment trial, and an effort to sell books, President Donald Trump’s team and its Senate allies focused Monday on Joe Biden and his son, arguing that the Bidens’ corruption justified all of Trump’s actions with Ukraine. Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, like …

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Trump impeachment bombshell, church shooter trains armed parishioners, special election today


January 28, 2020

Good morning! Here are the top political headlines from Austin, Washington, the campaign trail and Dallas. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, click here. Points from Austin 1. Jack Wilson stood before 600 churchgoers Sunday for a different kind of service, one that emphasized the need to train armed parishioners in case they ever confront an attacker like Wilson did at his …

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‘We have failed you’: UT President Greg Fenves addresses questions about faculty sexual misconduct


January 28, 2020

AUSTIN – Acknowledging emotional outcries from students, University of Texas at Austin President Greg Fenves said Monday night the university needs to do more to address sexual misconduct. “By the fact that you are here and that you are telling us your stories, yes, we have failed you,” Fenves said nearly an hour into an open dialogue event with students. …

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Suspect arrested after fatal shooting during domestic incident in Richardson


January 28, 2020

Authorities have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of an Oklahoma City man in Richardson last week. Howard Lamone Handy Jr.(Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) Howard Lamone Handy Jr., 21, of Mesquite was booked into the Dallas County jail Friday night on a murder charge in connection with the slaying of 22-year-old Deontay Coston early Jan. 21. Coston had gone to the …

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Suspects in southeast Oak Cliff slaying are ‘persons of interest’ in other homicides, Dallas police say


January 28, 2020

Two teenagers who face capital murder charges in connection with a fatal shooting early this month have been named as persons of interest in two other homicides, Dallas police say. Investigators had identified Kam’Ron Leeks, 17, and Darrion Allen, 19, as suspects in the Jan. 2 robbery and fatal shooting of Anthony Lee Moss, 47, in the Singing Hills neighborhood of southeast …

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Man, woman face capital murder charges after fatal South Dallas shooting


January 28, 2020

A man and a woman are in custody after the fatal shooting of a man in South Dallas earlier this month. Brent Trevon Burr, 23, of Dallas and Carina Anaya Villa, 22, of Irving each face a charge of capital murder in connection with the death of Sylvester Veal on Jan. 16, police said Monday. Veal, 33, was found shot to death just …

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1 wounded in shooting at Far North Dallas convenience store, police say


January 28, 2020

One person was wounded in a shooting after a dispute Monday night at a Far North Dallas convenience store, police said. The shooting occurred just before 10 p.m. in the parking lot of a Valero Corner Store in the 5500 block of Alpha Road and involved two people who got into an argument, police said. The suspect shot the victim …

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