BAJAUR: Unknown motorcyclists shot dead an Awami National Party local leader and injured two others, including his son, in an attack on his car in Bajaur tribal district here on Monday. Party workers and Rescue 1122 officials said the incident occurred at about 5pm in Haji Lawang area, some eight kilometres from the district headquarters, Khar. They said Malik Abdul …

The Carroll Dragons will kick off the 2021-2022 season in a big way in August. The team, which lost to Austin Westlake in the state 6A championship game last season, will face Highland Park High School at AT&T Stadium on August 26. The 2021-22 schedule also includes: Sept. 2 vs. Rockwall Heath Sept. 10 vs. Prosper Sept. 17 vs. Arlington Martin Sept. …

Plano’s Mayor Summer Internship program kicked off Friday, June 18, with a community service day at the North Texas Food Bank. About 80 high school interns, newly-elected Plano Mayor John Muns and other volunteers spent several hours sorting and packing food boxes for North Texas families in need. The food bank has seen increased demand over the past year due …

Dallas County is expected to give its last COVID-19 vaccine shot at Fair Park on July 17, county officials said Monday. The mass vaccination site at the sprawling fairgrounds in South Dallas first opened in January with the goal of bringing the medicine closer to Dallas’ historically underserved communities. As of Monday, the site had given more than 460,000 first and second doses at …

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, is reviving his 2020 bill that would let Americans sue China for coronavirus-related medical and economic damages. Crenshaw first introduced the measure with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., a few months into the pandemic. It died after failing to get a committee hearing. Under U.S. law, individuals are barred from suing a foreign government without special permission from Congress. Crenshaw’s revived bill filed …

Dallas County reported two more COVID-19 deaths and 106 new coronavirus cases Monday as concerns increase that a new variant of the virus could become the dominant strain in North Texas. The latest victims were a Dallas man in his 80s and a DeSoto woman in her 70s. Both had underlying high-risk health conditions. County Judge Clay Jenkins said in …

Saying Texas needs an attorney general free of personal legal entanglements, former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman formally announced Monday that she’s joining the 2022 Republican primary race to unseat incumbent Ken Paxton. Guzman, who served as the state’s first Hispanic female justice, joins Land Commissioner George P. Bush in what’s expected to be a bruising, high-dollar GOP primary. …

WASHINGTON — If you just can’t get enough of Donald Trump, you can pay as little as $106 to hear him reminisce about the presidency in December at American Airlines Center in Dallas — one of four stops on a “History Tour” that month with conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly. That’s in the nosebleed sections. Tickets top out at $7,506 for …

A Dallas man drowned on Father’s Day in a southeast Oklahoma lake while trying to rescue his son, authorities say. Carlo Lomas Sr., 47, swam into the Broken Bow Lake in McCurtain County about 1:15 p.m. Sunday when he saw his 18-year-old son, Carlo Lomas Jr., struggling in the water, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Both men went beneath …

A 20-year-old woman remembered as a loving mother to her three children was fatally shot Monday in South Dallas, and police say a suspect in her slaying is believed to be with two boys — her nephews — at the center of an Amber Alert. Officers were dispatched about 9:15 a.m. to an apartment in the 4700 block of Meadow …