Irving continues to have one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in Dallas County. The city has recorded 297 COVID-19 related deaths, including seven in the past week. Since the pandemic began, the city has recorded 35,262 cases, an increase of 641 over the past week, according to the Dallas County Health Department. In Dallas County, only Dallas itself and …

Fort Worth police are still looking for the person who fatally shot a DoorDash delivery driver earlier this month. Around 8 p.m. Sept. 11, officers were dispatched to a shooting at the intersection of Altamesa Boulevard and Kingswood Drive in southwest Fort Worth, police said. The victim, 24-year-old Hamzah Faraj, had been shot in the head and was taken to …

AUSTIN — After outcries from tea party activists in his party, Gov. Greg Abbott has added a new subject to the agenda of the year’s third special legislative season: increasing penalties for illegal voting back to where they were before he signed an “election integrity” bill earlier this month. Although “Texas has made tremendous progress in upholding the integrity of …

When Sara Hatcher got her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January, she was so excited that she used her phone to record the moment the needle pricked her arm. “I documented it, and I posted it everywhere,” said Hatcher, a 22-year-old Dallas resident. “I was very thrilled, and I was very proud to be the first person …

The man found guilty of beating Muhlaysia Booker in 2019 now stands accused of fatally shooting a woman in east Oak Cliff this month. Edward Dominic Thomas, 31, was booked into the Dallas County jail Tuesday afternoon on a murder charge in the slaying of LaShanda Wilson. He does not have an attorney listed in court records. Dallas police were called …

Eleven Grand Prairie residents died in the past week from COVID-19, according to the city and public health department. The total number of COVID-19 cases in Grand Prairie has reached 28,994 since the pandemic began last year, an increase of 794 over last week. Grand Prairie has recorded a total of 308 deaths COVID-related deaths since the pandemic began, according …

Poor policies, processes, planning and oversight led to a Dallas IT employee deleting more than 8 million police department files, a city review released Thursday has found. About 4.1 million photos, videos, audio, case notes and other items — or 7.5 terabytes of files — kept in a police storage archive have been permanently erased. Another 4.6 million files — …

Dallas’ IT department lacked adequate policies and procedures as well as planning and oversight, resulting in a mass deletion of police department files this year, a report released Thursday. Here’s five things to know about the findings: How did it happen? A city IT employee, who was fired in August, was supposed to move archived police files from online storage to …

The number of Arlington residents hospitalized for COVID-19 dropped for the first time in several weeks. As of Sept. 27, 144 people were hospitalized with the virus, down from 179 one week ago, according to the city’s dashboard. In the past week, the city has recorded 19 deaths from COVID-19. Since the pandemic began, it has reported 807 total deaths from …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Whenever her blood pressure starts rising, Vivian Franco can feel her body shaking and sweating and her head starts to hurt. She knows the symptoms well, but even when they keep lingering on, Franco said she doesn’t call the hospital or go to her doctor. She just waits it out. “I don’t have the money to …