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A fiery 18-wheeler crash earlier in the day has shut down the westbound lanes of Interstate 20 at Houston School Road in Lancaster until about 5 p.m.

A spring-fed Fort Worth lake that tested positive for a parasite that causes intestinal problems is reopening on Saturday after the swimming hole passed the overview of the CDC.

With guns drawn, police surround an Irving Auto Zone after a robbery, police say.

Jerry Jones was already sounding excited, smiling and exclaiming as he spoke. Only then did it become clear that he wasn't talking about what everybody else was thinking.

The University of Texas System board of regents has unanimously approved a plan to sell some of the oil and natural gas reserves beneath the system's vast West Texas lands for about $1 billion.

A man who may have been suffering from hallucinations, died at a Dallas hospital after he had a struggle with police who tased him outside his apartment.

Higher electric bills are the norm in a North Texas summer, but some Weatherford residents say they are being gouged and they want answers.

The fall in the price of crude oil is reflected with a drop in the average retail cost of gasoline in Texas this week.

A Garland resident's fight with Time Warner over exposed lines is over as the company buried them, but others in DeSoto, Addison and Plano are battling a similar problem.

The woman shot during a robbery attempt while working at an Alvarado truck stop has died.

The Star Telegram reports that one of two Wautaga teenagers convicted of teaching toddlers to smoke marijuana is going to jail.

Investigators say contractors didn't follow procedure, resulting in the May blast that critically injured three people.

The YMCA has closed all of its Tarrant County pools after a recent outbreak of Crypto.

A Tarrant County couple raising four foster children narrowly escaped eviction on Thursday morning.

Only veteran receiver Terry Glenn and the team's two first-round draft choices remain unsigned by the Dallas Cowboys after three more of their draft picks signed contracts as the team reported to California for training camp.

Hundreds of adoring fans waited outside in warm weather as "Nashville Star" Melissa Lawson warmed up for a hometown concert at Arlington High School.

The city of Allen in Collin County broke ground Thursday on a $52 million events center.

The former chairman of internal medicine at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth pleads guilty to a charge of possession of child pornography.

The Baylor University board of regents has fired President John M. Lilley, citing his rejection of the board's plan to replace him at the end of his contract next year.