A woman was in custody after a bomb threat at a McKinney bank Tuesday afternoon. McKinney police said just before 2 p.m. that they were investigating a bomb threat in the parking lot of the Valliance Bank in the 5900 block of South Lake Forest Drive, near the Sam Rayburn Tollway. Police cautioned people to avoid the area. The Plano …

Dallas County reported eight more COVID-19 deaths and 361 new coronavirus cases Friday. The latest victims were three Mesquite residents, a woman in her 50s and a man and a woman in their 70s; two Balch Springs men, in their 40s and 60s; a Cedar Hill woman in her 90s; a Dallas man in his 90s; and an Irving man …

Saturday begins cloudy with areas of fog, followed by increasing rain and storm chances. An unsettled weather pattern is going to continue through tonight across much of North Texas. Expect showers from time to time, but several dry hours as well. In DFW, up to an inch of additional rain is possible through tonight. The steadiest and heaviest rain will …

More than a year after she was killed, the Army confirmed Friday that Vanessa Guillén was sexually harassed by a supervisor, but not by the soldier who the Army believes killed her.While Guillén’s family maintained that she was being harassed at work, the Army previously said it found no evidence of that claim. The 271-page report released Friday found those claims to …

A 22-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of a man he mistakenly believed to have killed his younger brother, DeSoto police say. Norman Christopher Collier was booked into the Dallas County jail on a charge of capital murder after he shot a man in the head Sunday at a memorial ceremony for Collier’s younger brother, …

Fort Worth police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing elderly man. Ralph Worley, 93, was last seen about 8 a.m. Friday in the 1300 block of Bomber Road, near Lake Worth. Worley is described as a white man who is 5-9 and about 180 pounds, with white hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a …

Grand Prairie police say they broke up a half-million-dollar cockfighting operation this week and rescued nearly 300 animals in the process. Officers executed a search warrant Tuesday at a property in the 1400 block of Corral Road, near Mike Moseley Elementary School, and found hundreds of roosters, hens and chicks that were reportedly being bred to fight. Officials seized gaffs …

More than 150 Texans died because of February’s winter storm, according to the latest data from the Texas Department of State Health Services. In its latest update, the state health agency said that 151 fatalities have officially been linked to the brutal storm, which knocked out power, heat and water to millions of Texans. That tally has grown by 40 since …

A young girl died after being mauled by a family dog in South Fort Worth on Friday afternoon, police said. Officers were called just after 5 p.m. to a home in the 1400 block of Oak Grove Road, near Interstate 20 and Campus Drive, where the attack had been reported in the backyard. According to a police incident report, a …

On the eve of Saturday’s Dallas City Council elections, the police and fire chiefs decried the use of their images in campaign materials from at least two candidates. Police Chief Eddie García and Fire-Rescue Chief Dominique Artis said use of their photos on political mailers from council members Adam Bazaldua and Omar Narvaez could wrongly imply endorsements by uniformed employees. …