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After 16 hurt in 'Epic Easter' concert shooting, Dallas chief says city needs better permit laws

FORT WORTH, Texas — The chief of Dallas police emphasized the need for better oversight of event permits during a news conference Monday about a shooting at a permit-less weekend concert that left one dead and 16 injured.

Tribune News Service · Apr 4, 2022

Defense team for 'affluenza' teen's mom files appeal to dismiss money laundering charge

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Tarrant County mother, who reportedly "invested" $30,000 for her son to travel to Mexico while he was on probation for a fatal drunken driving crash that killed four people, is appealing a money laundering charge filed against her.

Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022

Family of Texas veteran held prisoner in Russia meets with Biden at White House

FORT WORTH, Texas — A spokesperson for the family of Fort Worth native Marine veteran Trevor Reed confirmed President Joe Biden met with Reed's parents Wednesday about efforts to free their son from wrongful imprisonment in Russia.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022

Texas governor signs disaster declaration for 16 counties ripped apart by tornadoes, storms

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a disaster declaration for 16 counties where severe storms swept through Monday, tearing open schools and leveling homes.

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022

‘Plenty of damage’: Severe storms leave wake of destruction from Dallas-Fort Worth to Red River

DALLAS — Officials in Jacksboro, Texas, surveyed the damage Tuesday after a suspected tornado Monday afternoon ripped through the city, tearing open schools and leveling homes.

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022

Texas' Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties under tornado warning; damage reported in Jack, Montague counties

DALLAS — Severe storms tore across much of North Texas Monday evening, with a tornado damaging a high school in Jack County, emergency crews launching a search-and-rescue effort in Montague County and The National Weather Service issuing several tornado watches and warnings from Fort Worth to Austin.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Cynthia M. Allen: One silver lining in the cloud of pandemic schooling: support for school choice is soaring

FORT WORTH, Texas — If you’ve paid any attention to the very public, very divisive debates over school administration, policy, curricula and academic outcomes — in Fort Worth, Southlake and several other parts of the country — you know that we have yet to experience all of the aftershocks from…

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Evacuations underway as swift wildfire burns in 2 North Texas counties

FORT WORTH, Texas — Separate wildfires swept through grass in three North Texas counties on Sunday, and authorities ordered people in their path to evacuate.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

‘It looks a little bit like a bomb site’: At least 50 homes lost in Texas wildfire

FORT WORTH, Texas — West Texas families are going back to their homes in Carbon, after having evacuated because of the Eastland Complex wildfire, to find rubble and ash where their houses used to be.

Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2022

Mac Engel: From COVID to North Carolina, how Baylor got the short end of another March Madness

FORT WORTH, Texas — Writer's Note: Blaming the officiating crew for an outcome a game is a lazy, tired path and ... sometimes the path of least resistance is the correct one.

Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2022