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DALLAS — The city of Dallas has filed a lawsuit against a former firefighter in order to recover more than $127,000 in overpayments, documents show. According to the lawsuit, the former firefighter, Ivan Gonzales, earned a total of $127,441.34 between June 2023 and February 2025. Gonzales was hired by...

The City of DeSoto officially marked the opening of its new Aquatic and Recreation Center at McCowan Park with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, drawing a large crowd and signaling the completion of one of the city’s most significant recreational investments. A walkthrough of the facility highlights a space designed to...

NORDSTROM is closing a two-story store at the end of the month. The retailer confirmed the closure of its only location in Delaware on April 30. Nordstrom is closing the location at the Christiana Mall, near Newark, after 15 years. In a company statement, Nordstrom said it was closing the...

A Bootlegger’s Deadly Dispute (Image Credits: Unsplash) Goree State Farm, Texas — In the shadow of the Texas prison system during the Great Depression, a young Black woman’s voice captivated listeners across the South. Hattie Ellis, a Dallas bootlegger convicted of murder, transformed her incarceration into a stage for blues and popular tunes. Her performances ... Read more

Week two of Tanner Horner’s trial shifts focus to whether he should receive the death penalty, with jurors weighing evidence of his actions, mental state, and future danger.

Source: Tyler Thomas / Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty. A 662-acre spread about 40 minutes south of Dallas is for sale, and it is not exactly subtle. Pearl Ranch in Maypearl has hit the market at $16.9 million, mixing working-ranch infrastructure with resort-style touches, lakes and a splashy sunflower field that doubles as a built-in backdrop for events and photo shoots...

Ben Lamm, the Dallas-based CEO of Colossal Biosciences, walked into a tech crowd this week with a jaw-dropping number and a bold fix. He said invasive species represent a $5.4 trillion global problem and argued that gene drives could be the way to beat them, repurposing the same genome-editing tools used in medicine to knock down feral pests without mass culling...

A late morning shooting on a busy Dallas thoroughfare left a man dead yesterday, adding fresh anxiety to a Lake Highlands corridor already known for recent violence. Officers were called to the 8000 block of Forest Lane in northeast Dallas around 10:40 a.m., where they found a man with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released...

There's much to do in Dallas to keep any visitor to the city occupied and happy. From excellent hole-in-the-wall burger joints like Twisted Root Burger Co. to newly-established outdoor recreation spaces like Palo Pinto Mountains State Park located just outside of the metropolitan area brimming with scenic landscapes and trails, the Pegasus City, as it's sometimes affectionately called, has tons...

By about 9 p.m. yesterday, parts of Lakewood and other East Dallas neighborhoods were vibrating to a concert they never bought tickets for. Residents say pounding bass rolled in from Fair Park, rattling walls and furniture and, in some cases, feeling like it was coming right out of the floor. The low-end thump reportedly lasted until around 11 p.m., setting off a wave...