A sunny and mild pattern is in place across North Texas for the next several days. While the typical February cold remains bottled up well to the north, highs will be in the 60s for several days. By Friday, highs should climb into the 70s. A weekend cool-down is expected for Saturday, but it won’t be anything dramatic by February standards. Highs will generally be in the 50s. Next week, however, temperatures will warm back into the 60s. The dry pattern will continue into next week with only a slight chance of showers by mid-week. Latest Forecast TONIGHT: Clear. Low:…
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A 15-year-old boy was critically wounded in a shooting in Garland on Tuesday afternoon. Officers were called about 1 p.m. to the scene of a shooting in the 300 block of East Vista Drive, near South First Street, and found the teenager with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital and had life-threatening injuries, police said. A relative told police that the boy was on the front porch with a friend when the family heard a gunshot. When the family found the boy wounded, his friend had already left, police said. Officers found the friend, also 15, a…
WASHINGTON — Several Republican-controlled states have backed away from vows to adopt a Texas-style abortion ban in recent weeks as they await a major abortion ruling from the Supreme Court. GOP lawmakers in South Dakota and Idaho have blocked legislation modeled after Texas’ Senate Bill 8. In Florida, lawmakers opting for a 15-week ban instead of Texas’ far more restrictive six-week cutoff. In Arkansas, the GOP-dominated legislature voted against extending a special session to consider a bill that went even further than the one in Texas, banning almost all abortions, not just those after six weeks. The Texas law bans abortions…
Cassandra Ware waited nervously Tuesday afternoon to pick up her 7-year-old son from his bus stop. He was mauled last month by a neighbor’s dog on his short walk home in Parker County, she said. It was Conner Landers’ first full day back in class, and Ware said he was excited. But she was anxious. “I’ve been terrified to let him out of my sight,” she told on Tuesday. “I’ve been having panic attacks today.” A 49-year-old woman was also released Tuesday on bond after authorities say her dog — a boxer and bullmastiff mixed-breed — attacked Conner on Jan. 21. The…
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt blow after blow to the U.S. health care system with four major COVID-19 surges. And hospitals are going on two years of navigating equipment shortages, increased patient volumes and worker burnout with little to no reprieve. While the latest omicron-fueled wave appears to be subsiding, the potential for another COVID-19 surge is ever present. In North Texas, hospitals only had a matter of weeks to recover from the delta surge before the omicron variant was first detected in the area. As part of an ongoing conversation with COVID-19 experts, The Dallas Morning News spoke with…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — If you’re planning on applying for a mail-in ballot for March’s Primary Election, you have until Feb. 18 to do so. New voting requirements mean local officials are rejecting more applications than usual in 2022. In Harris County, about 30% of mail-in ballot applications sent in this year have been rejected. “Right now, we are seeing about an 11% new rejection rate specific only to the new voting laws, those ID requirements, which brings our percentage up to 30% rejection rate on mail ballot applications,” explained Leah Shah, with Harris County Elections. “To put that into…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 9-year-old was shot in the head in what police are calling a road rage incident in southwest Houston. The shooting happened Tuesday night in the 7300 block of Fondren, near the Southwest Freeway. Police said someone in a truck fired shots at a family in a minivan. The driver of the van was able to pull over at a Shell gas station on Fondren. From there, paramedics took the child to Texas Children’s Hospital. The child’s condition was not immediately known.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 13-year-old boy is expected to survive after he was shot three times in southwest Houston, police said. The shooting happened Tuesday at 4:20 p.m. in the 7500 block of Bissonnet. Police said the suspect(s) pulled up into the parking lot of a grocery store, walked up and fired multiple shots into the vehicle the teen was in. The store is right across the street from Sharpstown High School and near Sugar Grove Academy Middle School. Apparently, students gather in the parking lot after school to get picked up or before they walk home. Police said…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An 11-year-old boy was shot and killed outside his northeast Harris County apartment complex while getting his jacket from a car. Now, the young victim’s family opened up to Chauncy Glover in an exclusive interview. “I don’t know how to feel man. I can’t describe it, and you just try to be strong because I know he would want me to be strong,” said Darius Dugas’ father, Darius Dugas Sr. “He was an awesome kid. I can’t ever remember a time when I gave him a whooping … It’s hard to make sense of it.” Darius…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Bourbon Street Sports Bar in Katy is under investigation for possibly overserving a customer, who is now charged with intoxication manslaughter. Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened on Sunday at about 2:20 a.m. Ilianna Yasmine Zepeda ran a red light at the intersection of Westgreen and Franz Road when she hit another car, deputies say. The impact of the crash killed 24-year-old, Renzo Olano-Flores, when Zepeda crashed into his vehicle. Zepeda got out of her car and ran from the scene, but was later brought back by her sister, according…
