Grand Prairie police are investigating a single-car crash that left two men dead Friday night. The driver of an Acura sedan ran off the road about 9:40 p.m. Friday in the 3700 block of East Main Street, near East Jefferson Street, and crashed into a drainage ditch, police said. Grand Prairie firefighters extricated two men from the car and took them to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Their identities have not been released. Police are investigating why the car ran off the road.
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Cedar Hill police are investigating after a motorist died after crashing into a salon Saturday morning. The crash occurred about just before 9 a.m. at the Great Clips in the 400 block of FM1382, near Belt Line Road. When officers arrived, they found that a car had driven through the building and the driver was unresponsive. The driver, who has not been identified, was later pronounced dead, police said. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 972-293-5181, ext. 2127.
An 18-year-old man was arrested last weekend after police say he tried to pull over a Dallas police officer driving an unmarked car on North Central Expressway. Alexis Estrada Lopez faces one felony count of impersonating a public servant. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, a Dallas officer was driving north in the 8600 block of North Central Expressway, near Northwest Highway, when a vehicle drove up behind him and turned on red and blue emergency strobe lights from inside the car, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Thinking it was an…
Saturday was a cloudy, damp and drizzly day across North Texas. But the highest concentration of significant rain showers all stayed across Central and East Texas. A cold front will sweep through the area Sunday morning with a chilly and gusty north wind. It won’t get much above 50 around lunchtime, and temperatures will actually drop during the afternoon. This next week will start out cool and dry. But there will be another chance at some rain by late Thursday and Thursday night into Friday morning. The rain will be welcome, but enough to put much of a dent in…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. But despite high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before these kits are available to be shipped, White House officials said. Does the government have the tests? Not yet. This week marked the close of an initial bidding period for test manufacturers to apply to the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services for contracts to make the tests. The first contract, worth $51.6 million,…
Five juveniles were taken into custody Saturday night after a fight broke out at The Parks Mall at Arlington. Police said the fight broke out among about 20 to 30 young people at the mall in the 3800 block of South Cooper Street. No injuries were reported. The department said in a tweet that authorities were aware of rumors on social media that said shots had been fired inside the mall, but that they determined there had been no gunfire. The juveniles taken into custody were not identified because of their ages. We want to provide the public w/ factual…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two people were killed in a head-on, wrong-way crash on the Westpark Tollway eastbound before Fondren on Saturday morning. According to Kevin Hubbard with Harris County Constable Precinct 5, authorities received a call at about 4:49 a.m. about a wrong-way driver in a Chevy Equinox going westbound in the eastbound lanes. A few minutes after that, officials received two more calls. Authorities says the Chevy driver slammed into a private ambulance, who was not transporting any patients. One person in each vehicle died, but the damage is so bad, Hubbard says investigators don’t yet know if…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A grandmother was killed and a father and his two young daughters are in the hospital following a house fire in northwest Harris County. Firefighters were called to the home on Trementina Drive near Gavin Place Lane around 5 a.m. Friday. Officials tell crews arrived and found a family in the front yard, but sadly, the grandmother had already passed away. According to Rachel Neutzler with the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office, the family said they found the grandmother on the front lawn. Officials say the father was taken to the hospital with cuts to…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — If you’re looking for a job, some of the top positions in the Houston area pay more than $70,000, and don’t require years of training to get into. More traffic on Houston’s freeways isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It also signals the area’s growth and the creation of more jobs. If you were impacted by the pandemic, or looking for a change, there are openings. “Houston is a growth region,” Workforce Solutions spokesperson Michelle Castrow said. “We continue to add people. We continue to add jobs. There is tremendous opportunity.” Workforce Solutions compiled the list of…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police say a woman was followed to a shopping center in southwest Houston where she was held at gunpoint by three men and robbed of everything she had on her, including her cell phone, jewelry, identification, and her purse. “They have everything on me. I’m scared,” said Melissa Rodriguez. Houston police said Rodriguez walked into a store the morning of Nov. 27, 2021 in the 6800 block of South Gessner. Rodriguez said she shopped for a while, and as she was leaving, three men with Cuban accents approached her. As the men demanded her belongings, police…
