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Fort Worth City Manager Jay Chapa is appointing James Horton to be interim fire chief while the city searches for a new fire chief. Horton, an assistant chief in the department, will take over as interim chief Aug. 31, the same day Raymond Hill retires. Hill became the interim ch...
A small exotic animal seeking refuge from the heat outside a pizzeria was rescued Thursday afternoon by North Richland Hills police. Officers identified the animal as a kinkajou, a small mammal native to the tropical forests of Central and South America, according to National Geo...
A Cleburne police officer was shot and wounded and a suspect was killed Monday evening after a pursuit that began in Cleburne and ended outside a Sam's Club in Burleson, authorities said. According to the Cleburne Police, officers responded around 6:50 p.m. Monday evening to a re...
Thousands of Republicans are expected to come to Dallas next month for a first-of-its-kind midterm national convention aimed at energizing Republican candidates ahead of the elections, with President Donald Trump and other federal officials expected to attend. The event is schedu...
Garland Police are looking for the driver of a white pickup truck they say is involved in a hit-and-run crash that severely injured a 12-year-old boy riding an electric scooter. Officials said the boy was crossing the street at North Garland Avenue and Apollo Road when the truck ...
Portland Fire (15-22, 6-11 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (22-16, 9-9 Western Conference), Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 7 p.m. CST BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings host the Portland Fire after Paige Bueckers scored 32 points in the Dallas Wings’ 92-70 win against the Seattle Storm. T...
A wildfire that began burning in Palo Pinto County on Monday afternoon is estimated to have burned more than 50,000 acres and is spreading west into Jack County on Tuesday. Danny Watkins, fire chief of Palo Pinto County ESD1, said at about 5 p.m. Monday that they were first notif...
Jury selection begins Monday in the first trial for three men accused of plotting to kill Dallas rapper MO3, whose real name was Melvin Noble, in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme. Kewon White is the first of the three men to stand trial. He is charged with murder and is accused ...
A Royse City police officer has been fired after the department says he violated standards, policies and procedures during an encounter with a woman and her teenage daughter at a neighborhood pool earlier this month. Royse City Police said officers were sent to a disturbance at t...
Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play potheads with telepathic powers in Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut, “The Wrong Girls.” The punk rock attitude and mix of quirky characters, including LaKeith Stanfield as a metalhead with a briefcase full of psychedelic drugs, gave me anti-es...
Burleson police said a chase ended in a shooting at the Sam's Club in the city on Monday evening. Burleson Police said Burleson officers were not involved in the shooting. Fort Worth police said Cleburne led the chase. It's unclear who was shot. NBC 5 has reached out to the Johns...
A brush fire in Palo Pinto County has shut down U.S. Highway 180 Monday afternoon. Palo Pinto County ESD 1 is responding to a brush fire dubbed the Ross Fire on U.S. 180 near Ro Bell Road and Ross Watson Road. The highway has been shut down while first responders work to contain ...
A wildfire in Palo Pinto County has grown to more than 4,000 acres and shut down U.S. Highway 180 Monday afternoon, county and state officials say, as more than 100 firefighters battle the flames in record heat. Danny Watkins, fire chief of Palo Pinto County ESD1, said at about 5...
A wildfire in Palo Pinto County has grown to more than 7,000 acres and shut down U.S. Highway 180 Monday afternoon, county and state officials say, as more than 100 firefighters battle the flames in record heat. Danny Watkins, fire chief of Palo Pinto County ESD1, said at about 5...
A wildfire in Palo Pinto County has grown to more than 25,000 acres and shut down U.S. Highway 180 Monday afternoon, county and state officials say, as more than 100 firefighters battle the flames in record heat. Danny Watkins, fire chief of Palo Pinto County ESD1, said at about ...
As thousands of college students return to class for the fall semester, some are heading into careers where the learning and the inspiration start long before graduation. Students enrolled in Collin College's Emergency Medical Services program are preparing for a career field tha...
A workforce apartment complex in east Fort Worth has received financing to move forward. VIC Partners LLC has obtained a $36.5 million primary line of credit for the construction of Vic Centre, a 268-unit workforce-housing development at 7120 Anderson Blvd. east outside of Loop 8...
Through a boost in the property tax rate, Fort Worth could restore a number of proposed general fund budget cuts, increase a planned employee pay raise and still give owners of average-valued homes a lower city tax bill next year, city staff said Friday. That’s because of soft pr...
When a Kentucky couple visiting Fort Worth suffered a life-threatening emergency outside their downtown hotel, strangers ran to their aid. As the couple prepared to return home, they made it their mission to say 'thank you' to everyone involved. This was the first year Victoria C...
Grand Prairie Fire Department has contained the parking lot fire that set at least 30 vehicles ablaze. GPFD was dispatched to what was initially reported as a grass fire in the 1200 block of E Avenue J. at approximately 3:48 p.m. Upon arrival, crews found at least 30 vehicles on ...
Ariel Richardson can quickly recite her past, if necessary, but she’d much rather focus on her future. She’s now an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with solid career prospects. Richardson earned her certification from the vocational program at Grapevine’s The G...
A Q&A with Fort Worth Home Lending Manager Kristen Kulinczenko. For most Americans, owning a home has long been considered a cornerstone to building and preserving generational wealth. A home purchase often symbolizes more than just securing a place to live – homeownership can he...
The 133 people aboard an American Airlines flight headed to Dallas are OK after a device caught fire in mid-air Friday evening. American Airlines released a statement saying flight 2398 landed safely at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport after reports of smoke from a custome...
Construction is expected to begin at the intersection of Forest Hill and Royal Crest drives in Fort Worth. The $2 million project approved by voters in the city’s 2022 bond program, will include accessible traffic signal improvements, street striping, ADA-compliant crosswalk ramp...
The city of Fort Worth’s stormwater management team is nearing completion of a five-year update to the city’s Floodplain Management Plan. The group held its second and final public meeting Aug. 13 before sending the plan to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for feedback ahe...
D.R. (Tom) Polster Aug. 16, 1941 – Aug. 6, 2026 We are heartbroken to share that Delmer Richard “Tom” Polster, 84, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Aug. 6 in Benbrook, from cardiac arrest while doing what he loved—working in the yard and helping a neighbor. Tom was born o...
Friends, teammates and community members gathered in Wylie for a candlelight vigil honoring Aiden Craig, an 18-year-old Marine recruit who died earlier this month after a medical emergency during Marine Corps recruit training in California. Craig was a 2026 graduate of Wylie High...
Dallas rapper Xavier Landum, known professionally as BigXthaPlug, was arrested on Friday and booked into the Collin County Jail. According to court records, Landum was arrested by the Allen Police Department and charged with driving while intoxicated and possession of less than t...
North Richland Hills Police rescued an exotic pet on Thursday. Officers responded to reports of a "kangaroo or monkey" seeking shelter from the heat outside of business on Rufe Snow Drive and Loop 820, according to NRHPD. When officers arrived, they were able to safely capture an...
Karmelo Anthony murder trial: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Recusal hearing: Day 1Retrial hearing: Day 1 | Day 2 Karmelo Anthony is back in a Collin County courtroom on Friday as a hearing on his bid for a new trial continues. Anthony, who was convicted this summer of murd...
Previous Trial Coverage: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Recusal hearing | Retrial hearing Karmelo Anthony is back in a Collin County courtroom on Friday as a hearing on his bid for a new trial continues. Anthony, who was convicted this summer of murdering 17-year-old Aus...
Karmelo Anthony murder trial: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Recusal hearing: Day 1Retrial hearing: Day 1 | Day 2 Karmelo Anthony is back in a Collin County courtroom on Friday as a hearing on his bid for a new trial continues. Anthony, who was convicted this summer of murd...
Karmelo Anthony murder trial: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Recusal hearing: Day 1Retrial hearing: Day 1 | Day 2 Karmelo Anthony is back in a Collin County courtroom on Friday as a hearing on his bid for a new trial continues. Anthony, who was convicted this summer of murd...
Karmelo Anthony murder trial: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Recusal hearing: Day 1Retrial hearing: Day 1 | Day 2 Karmelo Anthony is back in a Collin County courtroom on Friday as a hearing on his bid for a new trial continues. Anthony, who was convicted this summer of murd...
Arike Ogunbowale scored a season-high 32 points, Jessica Shepard added a career-best 26 and the Dallas Wings beat Indiana 91-85 on Thursday night, ending the Fever's five-game winning streak. Caitlin Clark had 10 points and nine assists and Paige Bueckers finished with 13 points ...
A Dallas ISD police officer who was shot in the leg by a man police said managed to get hold of the officer's weapon has been released from the hospital. The district did not release any additional information about Justin Jones, a 16-year veteran of the district's police force w...
A grass fire scorched a field south of Alliance Airport in Haslet Thursday afternoon. Flames burned along Westport Parkway, near Intermodal Parkway and Interstate 35W. Firefighters shut down some lanes of traffic as they worked to contain the fire. Video from Texas Sky Ranger sho...
Authorities are at the scene of a train derailment in Mansfield where 10 railcars came off the track Thursday afternoon. Mansfield Fire Department responded to a train derailment near Seeton Road and South Holland Road around 3 p.m. The derailment has caused the following traffic...
Karmelo Anthony murder trial: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Recusal hearing: Day 1Retrial hearing: Day 1 | Day 2 The fate of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony is playing out again in a Collin County courtroom. Anthony, who was convicted this summer of murdering 17-year-old ...
Andrew James Metz of Fort Worth, passed away unexpectedly Aug. 8, 2026, at the age of 57 following a tragic accident at his home. Andy was born on Jan. 22, 1969, in Lansing, Michigan. He graduated from J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas, and later attended the Universit...
In response to a short, mass-emailed video of a woman activist allegedly brushed back off a downtown street by a sheriff’s deputy’s slow-moving pickup truck recently, a Fort Worth City Councilmember offered some thoughts. But no prayers. In his late-Tuesday-night email reply to t...
As Fort Worth police continue to investigate a fatal shooting between neighbors, they could end up looking into a history of disputes claimed by both the suspect and others who lived nearby. Two years before the August 9th shooting that left Rudy Jaramillo dead, Fae Collins said ...
Garland Police say a 5-year-old girl died Tuesday after being left in a car. Police said they were called to a home on Redbird Drive at about 8:20 p.m. and arrived to find family members attempting lifesaving measures on a young girl when they arrived. “They observed a child; she...
Indiana Fever (24-12, 11-4 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (20-16, 8-9 Western Conference) Dallas; Thursday, 7 p.m. CST BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever will try to earn its 25th win of the season when the Fever visit the Dallas Wings at the American Airlines Center. This is Dallas...
A West Arlington fire destroyed three small businesses and injured a firefighter Monday, leaving owners trying to figure out what comes next. Arlington fire personnel responded to calls about a commercial structure fire in the 2400 block of West Abram Street around 5:50 p.m. Mond...
Matthew McConaughey plays beekeeper Amziah King, a bluegrass musician who reunites with his estranged foster daughter, Kateri (Angelina LookingGlass), opening the possibility of a family business and a new singer for his band of misfits. But a rival, wealthy ag-baron Dob McCoy (K...
A new movie about Anthony Bourdain opens in theaters next week, and it got us to thinking about all the rockstar chefs we know in Fort Worth, many of whom have upcoming culinary events on the books. After you read Kena’s review of Tony, stick around and see where you can dine wit...
Flock of See-Grills Too many of us are way too accepting of Flock Safety cameras and others like them. Too many of our family, friends, and neighbors abide by the old saying: “If you’re not doing anything wrong, who cares who’s watching you?” And that’s true to an extent. Is it r...
OPENING Bethlehem Kudumba Unit (NR) This Malayalam-language romantic comedy stars Nivin Pauly and Mamitha Baiju as a couple with a significant age difference. Also with Sangeeth Prathap, Dhyan Sreenivasan, Roshan Shanavas, Vinay Forrt, and Suresh Krishna. (Opens Friday at Cinemar...
Matthew Todd Alford, beloved son and brother, passed away on Aug. 16, 2026. A Celebration of Life will take place at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at The Met Church, 11301 N. Riverside Dr., Fort Worth 76244. A private interment will be held for the family at Greenwood Mem...
Take “Friday the 13th” and “Sleepaway Camp” and mash them up with “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” to get an idea of Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-thriller “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) plays indie filmmaker Kris Williams, who’s just been handed the keys...
A debate over Flock cameras is intensifying in Carrollton, where residents are divided over whether the city should continue using the license plate reader technology amid concerns about surveillance, privacy and data security. Residents on both sides of the issue spoke during th...
A friendship that began during a World Cup match quickly grew into a bond over family, food and their shared Colombian heritage. Now, Andrea Peters is remembering her close friend Eliana Bigoni, a 34-year-old mother of two who Plano police say was killed by her estranged husband....
A Lewisville mother is warning other families about the dangers of motorized scooters and bikes after her 12-year-old son suffered a fractured skull and nose, a brain bleed, and other serious injuries in an electric scooter crash in Waxahachie. The family's warning comes as scoot...
The U.S. Attorney's Office held a press conference Tuesday afternoon to announce a new initiative to combat abuse in public schools. The FBI and other state and county leaders were in attendance to share the new plan. Ryan Raybould, United States Attorney for the Northern Distric...
The State Fair of Texas announced its winners for the Big Tex Choice Awards on Tuesday. Four winners took home bragging rights in the following categories: Winner: Best Taste – Savory Burger Chop Tater Tacos Burger Chop Tater Tacos by Tom Grace A fresh burger patty is seared to p...
A family in Parker County who lost a mother and two children to a fire is now getting an outpouring of community support since the tragedy. The fire sparked on Monday night just before 10 p.m. Firefighters fighting the flames on Lake Country Drive found two victims inside the str...
Area lakes are slightly below maximum capacity levels as Fort Worth-Dallas experiences drier than normal conditions, but climate patterns forecast rain later this year is expected to level out waterways. Meanwhile, North Texas reservoirs are a few feet below their conservation le...
At least six businesses were destroyed or damaged and a firefighter was hospitalized when a four-alarm fire ripped through a building in West Arlington on Monday afternoon. More than 80 firefighters from Arlington and nearby Pantego were called to put out the large fire at 2410 W...
A Dallas jury has sentenced Rashonda Lowe to life in prison after a shocking guilty plea on the first day of trial last week. Lowe was charged with murder in the death of Jaime Rokkett, the owner of a cookie shop located inside the Shops at RedBird in Dallas. Lowe entered an open...
