The mother of a young boy who witnessed a Fort Worth police officer fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the ex-officer, the city and its former police chief and mayor. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court, says the child, Zion Carr, “suffered extreme and severe mental and emotional distress, anxiety, terror and agony” from watching his …

Dallas County reported 21 more COVID-19 deaths and 1,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday. Of the new cases, 816 were confirmed and 184 were probable. The numbers bring the county’s overall case total to 372,656, including 317,774 confirmed and 54,882 probable. The death toll is 4,474. The average number of new daily cases in the county for the last two weeks …

AUSTIN — Each morning, Brenna McCaffrey, a Ph.D. student at City University of New York, checks her TikTok inbox, where people send messages about videos she makes about self-managed abortions. In the past two months, she says, 60% of the dozens of messages have been from people in Texas asking for more resources about how to manage a medication abortion …

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson wants to undo a proposal to place $10 million of police overtime in reserves. And it appears he’s got council support. After the City Council narrowly voted last week to move nearly a third of the money into a reserve fund, the mayor said he is proposing to reverse the decision to transfer $10 million of …

An 80-year-old Kaufman County woman has been arrested on a murder charge after the fatal shooting of her daughter. Sheriff’s deputies were called about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday to a home in the 12000 block of FM1836, in an unincorporated area about 9 miles southeast of Kaufman, where they found 52-year-old Connie Helms dead. She had been shot in the shoulder, KXAS-TV …

Four people were assaulted Wednesday afternoon during a stabbing attack at a shopping mall on Fort Worth’s South Side, police said. Fort Worth police did not specify how many of the four people were stabbed. KXAS-TV (NBC5), citing MedStar Mobile Healthcare, reported that three people were stabbed. Police said officers were dispatched to the LaGran Plaza mall, near Interstate 35W and Seminary …

SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (KTRK) — Will Angell has owned his home on Parkview Road in Surfside for a year now. He drove back from Round Rock on Wednesday to survey the damage after watching Hurricane Nicholas move through the area on his Ring camera’s live feed Monday. “I could see the water coming up when I woke up in the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Nicholas has slowed down over Louisiana and will still impact our weather in Houston Thursday. Moisture wrapping around the tropical depression’s circulation will keep the sky mainly cloudy for most of the day. A few showers could even pop up, especially east of I-45. Where it stays fairly cloudy, temperatures will warm into the mid 80s. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Power continues to be restored in many homes across southeast Texas after Hurricane Nicholas ravaged parts of the area. Just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, CenterPoint Energy’s outage tracker counted more than 42,000 customers remained without power. This was vast improvement from the more than 460,000 customers who were left powerless in the middle of Tuesday. #Houston: Crews …

WILLIS, Texas (KTRK) — A mother in Willis is now pressing charges against a student after her son with cerebral palsy was allegedly pinned down and beaten in the face at school. Courteney Brennan said she got a phone call from Brabham Middle School on Sept. 1, which happened to be the same day as her son’s 13th birthday. “The …