Poor weather on Wednesday continued to hamper the search and rescue mission for climbers Mohammad Ali Sadpara, Jon Snorri and Juan Pablo Mohr who were last seen near the K2 Bottleneck on Friday morning. The Inter-Services Public Relations said the search team is on standby and will carry on with the mission once the weather shows improvement. “Mostly dry, extremely …

Capital police resorted to tear gas shelling near the Pakistan Secretariat on Wednesday as they tried to push back government employees who were protesting for a pay rise. Several employees were arrested and those stuck in the Secretariat Block broke the door to escape. Protests were being held at several different point of the city, including Shahrah-i-Dastoor, outside Secretariat Block …

The suspect in a fatal Christmas shooting at a West Dallas car wash is now in custody. Roman Ramirez, 23, was booked into the Dallas County jail on Monday and faces a murder charge in the death of Jose Loera. Officers were called just after 9 p.m. Dec. 25 to John’s Car Wash in the 4600 of Bernal Drive, where Loera, …

Thursday afternoon’s vaccine mega hub at Texas Motor Speedway has been canceled due to the likelihood of inclement weather, Texas Motor Speedway officials said Tuesday. Denton County and TMS have been in contact with the National Weather Service since Monday. With a forecast predicting freezing temperatures and a chance of freezing rain and sleet in the early-morning hours, organizers made …

3 One suspect is in custody and another remains at large after a December slaying near Fair Park. Edward Ray Sims, 35, was arrested on a murder charge Monday in connection with the death of 32-year-old Taboric Lee. Police found Lee suffering from a gunshot wound the afternoon of Dec. 14 in the 1600 block of Caldwell Street, near Haskell and …

A Fort Worth police officer was terminated because of “racially insensitive and inappropriate” posts on the officer’s social media, the police department announced Tuesday. Officer Chadwick Hughes was fired for violating the department’s general orders related to social media use, the department said. Another officer found the posts on Jan. 30, police said, leading to an immediate internal-affairs investigation of …

When Margaret Thompson drove her 88-year-old mother to get her second COVID-19 shot at Dallas County’s Fair Park vaccine site, she expected to be in and out fairly quickly. For the first shot, they were at the South Dallas hub barely half an hour, “including the 15-minute wait time,” Thompson said. On Tuesday, they arrived around 1:30 p.m. but were still waiting …

Dallas County on Tuesday reported 1,303 new coronavirus cases and 30 more deaths from COVID-19. Among the victims were a pregnant Dallas woman in her 20s and an Irving woman in her 30s who had recovered from a case of COVID-19 six months ago but became reinfected. Meanwhile, a Fort Worth boy younger than 10 was among 36 newly reported …

AUSTIN — State leaders and the judge presiding in a Texas foster care lawsuit said Tuesday they’re distressed by a new report in which court-appointed monitors said they found chaos, self-harm and child-on-child sexual activity running rampant in recent months at a private treatment facility in Galveston County. A residential treatment center operated by Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Care in …

Dallas police are investigating after a man was fatally shot in east Oak Cliff. Officers were called about 12:30 p.m. Monday to the 2300 block of South Denley Drive, near East Illinois Avenue and South Lancaster Road, where a man had been shot in the leg. That man, whom police have not identified, died from his injuries Tuesday. Police did …