Local News
While Southlake Police Chief Steve Mylett stopped short of connecting the plain-sight shooting death to a Mexican drug cartel, he did confirm that investigators believe the murder was a targeted affair conducted by professional killers.
The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
A Dallas Cowboys player accused of intoxication manslaughter in the death of a teammate will appear before a judge Friday morning in a hearing to determine if he should remain out on bond.
The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend in 2008.
Naim Rasool Muhammad, the Dallas man convicted of killing two of his children, was sentenced to death Thursday. On May 15, Muhammad was found guilty of drowning two of his three children in Aug. 2011.
Temperatures rose, and sun beat down on soldiers and civilians who've been taking turns walking for 24 days. They're coming from West Point, N.Y. to Dallas, trying to bring attention to the meaning of Memorial Day.
Did you see a mysterious craft in the skies above North Texas overnight? Well, we're here to solve that mystery for you.
Police said a deadly shooting incident Wednesday evening at Southlake Town Square was "not random." A 43-year-old man was shot shortly before 7 p.m. in the 100 block of Grand Avenue as shocked shoppers looked on.
National News
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as well as photos of gun and what looks to be a potted marijuana plant....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida....
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursday by replacing the supervisor who oversaw agents involved in targeting tea party groups....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anthony Weiner set out to reintroduce himself to voters Thursday as he embarked on a mayoral bid after leaving Congress in a sexting scandal. He found a much more supportive reception in his first campaign stop than he did from the state's top Democrat, who bluntly criticized his candidacy a day earlier....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated a terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists....
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children....
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters. They were just part of life in a particularly deadly stretch of Tornado Alley....
