About 20 volunteers, mostly students from southern Oak Cliff high schools, led a door-to-door canvassing effort recently to push the COVID-19 vaccine in the neighborhood. It is among the areas of Dallas County with the lowest vaccination rates. The visits are an opportunity to answer questions about the vaccines and to encourage people to get the shots, say Dallas County …

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will put tiny Van Horn, Texas, on the international map next month when he’s scheduled to go into space from a launch site near there. Bezos’ Blue Origin aerospace company’s rocket launch site is in a secluded desert area near Van Horn, a tiny town of about 1,800 people located about 120 miles southeast of El …

WASHINGTON — Amnesty International issued a scathing report Friday asserting that nearly 10,000 Mexican children have been expelled soon after crossing the border since President Joe Biden took office — despite his vow to end harsh Trump-era treatment of young migrants, and a legal duty to make sure they don’t face danger if they’re sent back. Biden has halted deportation …

A new digital tool could help bring more supermarkets to southern Dallas to combat food insecurity. The tool helps identify low-income communities where supermarkets are needed. It was developed by local researcher Edward Rincón in collaboration with Chetan Tewawi, an associate professor at the University of North Texas. “Unlike a traditional location-allocation study that identifies suitable locations for new facility …

A man convicted of breaking into a Lake Highlands apartment in 2019 to sexually assault three children has been sentenced to 85 years in prison. A Dallas County jury found 36-year-old Oscar King guilty of three felony charges on Thursday: one count of sexual assault of a child and two counts of burglary of a habitation with the intent to …

The Texas Supreme Court rejected a long-shot request to give former Dallas City Council candidate Donald Parish Jr. a chance at a new election. Parish, a pastor, came in third in last month’s election to represent South Dallas’ District 7, short by just 28 votes to advance to the runoff election, in which the candidate in second place, Kevin Felder, lost …

A man died after a shooting was reported near downtown Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon, but police were not yet sure how he died. Police were called about 2:30 p.m. to the 700 block of North Hampton Street, where a 911 caller said that a man had been shot outside an apartment. Officers found the man in a breezeway, and …

A 4-year-old child was shot in the foot in a shooting at a southeast Dallas apartment that left multiple people wounded Friday afternoon, police said. Officers responded about 4:30 p.m. to the 300 block of North Jim Miller Road, where the shooting was reported. The child was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said. Multiple other people had injuries …

An Allen man who had tens of thousands of images of child pornography has been convicted of three federal charges. Clay Melton Denton, 56, was found guilty Friday of possession, distribution and receipt of child pornography at the end of a five-day trial in Sherman. The jury deliberated for less than an hour, court records show. Undercover officers in both …