The Trophy Club
government
Congregation members of a North Texas church have voted against reinstating their former senior pastor, months after he stepped down for secretly employing his son, a lifetime registered sex offender, on the church and school campus....
News
A 9-year-old from Flower Mound is making waves in the tennis world, winning a major regional tournament and advancing to nationals. Emilia Ancelin of Flower Mound won the 10U division of the Little Mo Texas/South Regional Tennis Championship at the end of May. Next, she will trav...
parks
A Rhode Island apothecary created a series of 20 fragrances nearly three centuries ago. One of them became George Washington’s signature scent. Cologne Number Six, the personal fragrance of the first president of the United States, smells like citrus, lavender, and rosemary, w...
safety
A neighbor fatally shot a man wielding a machete who was allegedly arguing with a woman and dragging her down a Fort Worth street. Police say no arrests have been made....
safety
The Chicago rapper known as Twista has pleaded guilty to five counts of willfully failing to pay his income taxes and faces up to five years in prison. The IRS Criminal Investigations division, the crime-fighting arm of the IRS, says Twista, whose legal name is Carl Mitchell, ...
business
WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot. The app said it has started allowing users to reserve unique usernames, which can be used to contact WhatsApp user...
safety
A nun was released from immigration custody after she was arrested while walking to Mass in her habit in South Texas. Sister Leticia Ugboaja, aka “Sister Letty,” was walking to Our Lady of Sorrows Church in McAllen, just a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, on Sunday when ...
News
A cause of death has been revealed for 35-year-old former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her roles in “Lilo & Stitch” and “The Ring.” The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner indicated Chase’s cause of death was acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with chronic polys...
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Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders says he feels like his old — and younger — self again a year after undergoing surgery to remove his cancerous bladder. “I consider myself cancer-free,” thanks to robotic surgery that also reconstructed his bladder using part of his intestine, Sander...
safety
A woman’s screams for help led to a deadly confrontation with a man carrying a machete in Fort Worth late Sunday night. Fort Worth Police said officers were called to the 2900 block of Ross Avenue at about 10:20 p.m. for a man with a weapon. When officers arrived, they fo...
safety
A Texas fire official is dead after he was hit by a truck while directing traffic after a rodeo. It happened in Mabank, about an hour southeast of Dallas....
safety
Fort Worth city leaders unveiled the Hank Nava Jr. Memorial Highway sign on Monday, honoring the life, service, and legacy of the police officer’s impact on the community and law enforcement. Fort Worth police officer Henry “Hank” Nava Jr. was shot and killed in 2005 while ser...
News
The wife of a Venezuelan soccer star died while protecting their 1-year-old daughter during the twin earthquakes that devastated the South American country last week. Héctor Bello, a defender for Venezuela’s professional soccer team Marítimo de La Guaira, announced on Instagra...
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Nearly one million bottles of common heart and kidney prescription medication have been voluntarily recalled due to “presence of a foreign substance,” according to a Food and Drug enforcement report. The recall was issued by California drugmaker Amgen June 4, the report said. ...
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A JetBlue pilot reported hitting a drone as the flight made its approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City Monday, aviation officials say. The pilot reported the incident at an altitude of about 3,000 feet while the flight was on its final approach to ...
safety
While heat alerts grip more than 20 states from the Plains through the Midwest and Great Lakes, North Texas is carving out its own distinct brand of summer swelter this week....
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A mix of rescue teams and civilians on Sunday peered at a mountain of rubble almost indistinguishable from the other ruins lining swathes of the northern Venezuelan coast following two devastating earthquakes. In the days since Wednesday’s 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, search teams and ...
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The procedure, the surgeon explained, was relatively low risk. It was sensitive — any procedure that goes through the nose and toward the brain is bound to be — but it was also fairly straightforward. Just a biopsy. Perry Lynch, a 59-year-old Texan, turned out to be the except...
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Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis have been indicted in the latest round of charges in the government’s gambling investigation, authorities said Monday. When he was playing for the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024, Beasley agreed to tailor his performance based on betting t...
safety
Three women were arrested Thursday afternoon for a deadly stabbing near the Val Verde Regional Medical Center. Police say they were called around 2 p.m. after a woman was reportedly stabbed multiple times. The woman who was stabbed was taken to San Antonio for emergency treat...
parks
Sparks will fly across North Texas this Fourth of July, and NBC 5 has compiled a great list of celebrations for you and your family to enjoy. Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, marks the day in 1776 when America officially declared its independence from British ru...
News
The Dallas Mavericks introduced new head coach Dusty May, who is taking over for Jason Kidd. The Mavericks and Kidd mutually agreed to part ways after five seasons together that included a run to the NBA Finals. May won a national championship in his second season at Michi...
News
People have been talking about “THE wedding” well before he ever proposed. So will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tie the knot at Madison Square Garden? The speculation is hitting a fever pitch. Last week, NBC News reported that a source said the venue was preparing fo...
safety
The Supreme Court struck down a federal law that restricts the president’s ability to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission, expanding presidential control over independent federal agencies. The court’s conservative majority voted 6-3 to uphold President Donald Trump’s ...
safety
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for removing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from office, ruling she can stay on the job while her challenge to the firing plays out in court. In a 5-4 vote, the high court said Trump does not have...
government
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states should be allowed to count ballots that are mailed on time but arrive after Election Day. In a 5-4 decision, the high court rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit...
News
Former NFL star Chris Johnson revealed Monday that he was diagnosed with ALS last year. In an interview with “Good Morning America,” the 40-year-old Johnson said he has no family history of the disease. “That’s one of the reasons this disease can be so shocking,” Johnson sa...
safety
Officials are investigating after the body of a baby was found inside a porta-potty bathroom at the popular Electric Forest festival in Michigan over the weekend. Michigan State Police posted about the incident at 1:18 p.m. Sunday, confirming that the body of the infant was fo...
News
The Dallas Wings have lost back-to-back games for just the second time this season, and it again involved the Minnesota Lynx. Dallas struggled offensively in the first half, only scoring 29 points and committing eight turnovers. Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd scored a combine...
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Former Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson is one name football fans won’t be seeing at the team’s new stadium. The new facility cost $2.1 billion and took three years to build, from groundbreaking to last week’s ribbon-cutting. Highmark Stadium honors the Bills’ past with...
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We now know the 9 teams playing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches in Texas this week, with two more games left in Dallas in July. Monday, the knockout rounds continue with Brazil vs. Japan at noon CST in Houston. Brazil, a 5-time tournament champion, kicks off its knockout...
business
Comcast announced Monday that it plans to split into two publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky. The move will separate Comcast’s media and entertainment assets from its broadband and wireless business. The company’s stock surged more than 22% in pre-ma...
News
With temperatures rising during the summer months, it’s important to know how to stay safe and steer clear of heat-related illnesses like heat stroke. Heat stroke can be dangerous and is among the most serious heat-related illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
News
Every few minutes, the mortuary owner’s phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? W...
government
There are tension headaches, migraine headaches, sinus headaches and then there are summer headaches. While they aren’t technically a diagnosable type of headache, experts encourage their patients to take summer headaches seriously. These headaches, says Dr. Jen Caudle, board ...
News
Search crews have recovered the body of a man who disappeared beneath the surface of Benbrook Lake after jumping into the water to rescue a child over the weekend, state authorities confirmed Monday morning....
safety
Mabank Fire Marshal Charlie Woodard was struck and killed by a vehicle while directing traffic outside a local rodeo on Saturday night, sparking an investigation into the fatal incident....
News
Those who were looking forward to witnessing one of comedy’s biggest nights of the year on Sunday will get their chance late next month as the presentation of the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor returns to Netflix....
safety
The fast-moving flames of a wildfire burning near the Colorado-Utah border claimed the lives of three firefighters and injured two others who had huddled inside emergency shelters to escape the blaze....
safety
One man was killed and another was left in critical condition following a shooting Saturday afternoon in the Cedar Crest area of Dallas, police said.
safety
A skydiving plane crashed in northeastern France Sunday, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said.
News
North Texas faces intense heat, gusty winds, and a massive plume of Saharan dust bringing hazy skies and vibrant sunsets early this week.
safety
One of the most important things a parent can do is help a child understand this simple truth: You were created on purpose and for a purpose. Children are not accidents. They are not random combinations of personality traits, talents, emotions and weaknesses. Every child is inten...
business
I’ll be honest, I’ve been pretty frustrated lately. Not even about the turmoil in Austin or Washington, the economy or any of the other thousand soundbites floating in the media — rather, in the past few months, I’ve had the usual growing pains of a new business, a recent cancer ...
News
Comedian Bill Maher was the guest of honor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night. But President Donald Trump‘s presence wasn’t far away. Just moments after Maher began to accept the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Matt Friend, a leading impersonator of the pre...
safety
A North Texas family is making a desperate plea for justice after a man was killed in an alleged drunken driving hit-and-run crash. According to Irving Police, 31-year-old Tony Vasquez was hit by a driver while he was riding a scooter on June 19 at Cantrell Street and Cibola ...
safety
Blistering heat and strong winds Sunday stoked wildfires across the West after three firefighters were killed a day earlier in Colorado while battling a blaze along the state’s border with Utah. The National Weather Service said wildfire conditions “remain critical” across the...
safety
The Mabank community is mourning the loss of Fire Chief Charles Woodard, who was killed while directing traffic outside the Mabank Rodeo Grounds. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Woodard was directing traffic Friday night when he stepped into the westbound l...
News
Pinch-runner Jarred Kelenic scored the tiebreaking run by racing home from second base on a wild pitch in the ninth inning, and the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Sunday to complete a four-game sweep. Josh Jung hit a two-out double off Louis Varland (3-3) in t...
safety
Dallas police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a deadly shooting that left one man dead and another critically injured. Officers responded around 2 p.m. Saturday to the 3900 block of Linfield Road, where they found two men who had been shot multiple times. ...
News
President Donald Trump on Sunday surveyed several of his construction projects around the nation’s capital, suggesting afterward that his redevelopment of the East Potomac Golf Links would enable it to host a premier tournament. “When completed, this Course will have the abili...
safety
A 15-year-old boy drowned Saturday afternoon in Lake Jacksonville after trying to rescue a 5-year-old child who had drifted into deep water, police said....
News
Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela on Sunday, four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira. The government reported 1,450 dead from the quakes Sunday afternoon as it face...
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When Guillermo Ochoa stepped onto the pitch in the 78th minute of Mexico’s match with Czechia on Wednesday night, the stadium let out a roar that seemed to reverberate across the country and beyond. Clad in a purple jersey and shorts, a misty-eyed Ochoa made the sign of the c...
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France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect...
schools
One year after President Donald Trump signed his core domestic policy package into law, student loan borrowers are bracing for a major overhaul of the federal lending system that will begin this week. Many were already struggling when the Biden administration attempted to enac...
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Druski will make history as the youngest host of the BET Awards on Sunday, where Lauryn Hill and Teyana Taylor will be honored along with stars such as Cardi B, Doechii and Queen Latifah who are expected to take the stage. Druski will surpass Kevin Hart, who previously held th...
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Amy Neville describes Kristin Bride as her “soulmate.” But the day that forged their bond — June 23, 2020 — was the worst of each of their lives. Both Bride and Neville lost their teen sons that day. Their kids lived a thousand miles apart and never met, but they both died fro...
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NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost t...
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The shingles vaccine may significantly help protect older adults against dementia, a growing body of evidence shows. Exactly how is unclear. The nervous system, however, likely holds clues. Shingles, a condition triggered by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus in...
