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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas – A sharp Arctic blast is set to arrive by late Friday, raising the risk for dangerous cold, icy roads, and potential power and pipe issues across North and Central Texas heading...

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD trustees have launched a review after an “Islamic Games” weekend surfaced on an organizer schedule for Colleyville Heritage High School, catching board leaders off guard and stirring fast-moving neighborhood debate. The listing raised immediate questions about who signed off on using the...

The fatal shooting happened outside Pink House, a Dallas strip club, in the early hours of New Year's Day.

A huge surge of Arctic weather is headed for Texas this week, renewing concerns of another Texas pool freeze as an extended stretch of unusually cold temperatures settles in toward the weekend. While the cold will be felt statewide, forecasts now indicate that Houston and San Antonio are likely to...

After a decade of falling fortunes, Texas-based women’s clothing chain Francesca’s is clearing out all its racks. The once-mighty retailer is closing all of its stores nationwide, including several locations in Dallas-Fort Worth. Although the company has not made any official pronouncement, Women’s Wear Daily reports...

Dallas County’s Commissioners Court is expected to adopt a resolution formally recognizing that a 19-year-old man executed in 1956 was wrongfully convicted, marking an official acknowledgment of a historical miscarriage of justice.

DALLAS, Texas — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Dallas have apprehended Alberth Jose Simancas-Garcia, a Venezuelan national and known member of the Tren de Aragua gang, who is wanted in Peru for questioning related to a homicide. Simancas-Garcia entered the United States illegally and was taken...

After more than half a century of uncertainty, the oldest missing persons case in Texas has been solved. A decades-old disappearance in Dallas was recently closed when a single photograph linked a missing teenager to an unidentified hit-and-run victim found hundreds of miles away. The discovery brought long-awaited...

Despite strong opposition from residents, the Dallas City Council voted on December 10, 2025, to approve a Specific Use Permit for a 90-foot Verizon cell tower in the historic South Boulevard Park Row district, according to the Dallas Weekly. The tower will be built at 1814 South Boulevard on church-owned...

4910 Joseph Hardin Drive in Dallas, Texas — Courtesy: NAI James E. Hanson. The recent seller of a Fairfield industrial site has acquired a property in Texas as part of a now-completed 1031 like-kind exchange, according to brokers with NAI James E. Hanson. The buyer, Anderson & Vreeland Realty...