SMU Football Gameday: What to expect this year

UP Texas News 9/5 9:20A

SMU football gameday is always an exciting time in University Park, and this season promises to be even more electrifying as the Mustangs enter their second year in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

Sci-Fi sculptures made of food cans take over NorthPark for CANstruction Dallas

NBC DFW 9/3 4:28A Alanna Quillen

There s spring cleaning and fall refresh, and if you re about to clean the closet, a group in Fort Worth wants to do something good with your fancy clothes. Bring dresses. Bring tuxedos. Bring them on hangers. And in return, we re hosting an event...

Dallas photographer's exhibition kicks off the new season at Meadows Museum, SMU

NBC DFW 8/23 6:25A Kimberly Richard

Family friends of a man shot and killed during an apparent carjacking are speaking out. Dallas police said the shooting happened in Northwest Dallas while the victim was on a FaceTime call. The victim was identified as 34-year-old Juan Hernandez...

Erik Menendez denied parole after decades in prison

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 8/21 7:36P Chelsea Hylton

After a nearly 10-hour hearing, California officials denied Erik Menendez parole on Thursday after he spent decades behind bars for killing his parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez , in 1989. The...

Are incentives to retain Texas teachers working? Job turnover remains high

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 8/18 10:04A Andrea Lucia

Job turnover among teachers in Texas remains high after hitting a record in 2023, when more than 13% left their jobs. In 2022, after 11.5% of teachers left, Gov. Greg Abbott commissioned a task force to find solutions to the growing shortage of...

TEA releases 2024-25 school ratings. See the best/worst districts and charters here

NBC DFW 8/15 8:45A Frank Heinz

The Texas Education Agency released school accountability ratings for the 2024-2025 school year on Friday, with some of the largest school districts in North Texas grading between A and C. The Dallas,...

Doctors warn heat illness can strike student athletes, band members in any weather

NBC DFW 8/13 4:35A Alanna Quillen

As high school football and marching band season ramp up across Texas, doctors are urging parents to take extra precautions to protect kids from heat-related illnesses — even when it’s not triple-digit hot. “Heat stroke is a more serious illness....

Dallas family blames sheriff's office for overdose death of 21-year-old jail inmate

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 7/29 4:58A Marvin Hurst

Quinnetta Brinkley's family knew she was coming home from the Dallas County Jail in July. No one thought they would reunite at a funeral home after investigators alleged she was murdered after another woman smuggled fentanyl into the jail. Opal...

Man dies of fentanyl overdose in Tarrant County Jail, mother's lawsuit dismissed

NBC DFW 7/22 7:00A NBCDFW Staff

Nearly three years after a man died in the Tarrant County Jail from a fentanyl overdose, a federal lawsuit against the county and a jail commissary company has been dismissed. Trelynn Wormley, 23,...

Rashee Rice pleads guilty, will spend time in jail after high-speed hit-and-run

NBC DFW 7/17 9:35A Frank Heinz and NBCDFW Staff

NFL wide receiver Rashee Rice will spend time behind bars after pleading guilty Thursday to two felony charges related to a high-speed hit-and-run crash that injured at least four people on a Dallas...

Civil rights protests Thursday in DFW, across US, 5 years after John Lewis's death

NBC DFW 7/17 7:34A NBCDFW Staff

NFL wide receiver Rashee Rice will spend time behind bars after pleading guilty Thursday to two felony charges related to a high-speed hit-and-run crash that injured at least four people on a Dallas...

Kansas City Chiefs' Rashee Rice sentenced to 30 days in jail, 5 years probation for multi-car crash...

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 7/17 7:25A Julia Falcon

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years of probation for a Dallas car crash. According to a statement from the Dallas County District Attorney's Office, Rice pleaded guilty on Thursday to...

Texas lawmakers hope Doctor Act can help growing physician shortage in the state

NBC DFW 7/17 4:59A Alanna Quillen

NFL wide receiver Rashee Rice will spend time behind bars after pleading guilty Thursday to two felony charges related to a high-speed hit-and-run crash that injured at least four people on a Dallas...

Traffic Advisories - Week of July 14

UP Texas News 7/15 11:20A

Road closures in the City of University Park during the week of July 14.