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Tornadoes raked the Dallas area Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported.

About 200 homes were destroyed and 650 were damaged by violent tornadoes in northern Texas, an American Red Cross spokeswoman said Wednesday, a day after the storms tore through one of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.

Some flights to and from Amarillo were canceled after multiple tornadoes slashed through the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Tornadoes did heavy damage in Kennedale, Arlington and southern Dallas County, including Lancaster, which has declared a State...

Police say a missing 11-year-old Dallas boy slowly starved to death after his parents locked him in his bedroom, feeding him just bread and water. Police received a call on Friday from the grandfather of Johnathan Ramsey, who was concerned about...

Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler’s Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticulously documenting an often forgotten Nazi crime — the massive pillaging of artwork and other cultural...

A one-year-old girl whose throat had been slashed Monday was revived from a medically-induced coma on Tuesday, and doctors are optimistic about her recovery.

A woman was taken into custody and her one-year-old child was transported to Children’s Medical Center of Dallas after police received a 911 call about a baby who was cut on the neck, police said. Police said the call came in just after...

At least five high-ranking executives with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity have resigned in the aftermath of the organization’s decision to eliminate its funding for Planned Parenthood.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is Dallas Seavey’s to lose at this point. Seavey had an hour advantage over the nearest musher as he set out Tuesday morning on the last 77-mile stretch of the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska. The...

A Tarrant County man for the first time is talking about a story that made national headlines. One minute he’s golfing and the next he’s near death. Clay Carpenter has run four marathons and considers himself an avid skier. But he said the...