A North Texas town just made a national list for its storied history. USA TODAY’s 10BEST list for the Best Historic Small Towns of 2025 was recently released. The 10 towns on the list were nominated by a panel of experts that includes travel writers, newspaper editors and USA TODAY editors, and were then voted on by USA TODAY readers.

Elliston Berry, 16, and her mother Anna McAdams of Aledo, stood next to President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas who led the bipartisan effort to pass the bill along with U.

Texas is the “battiest” state, home to 32 of the country’s 47 bat species — and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nowhere may prove that better than the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A recent acoustic survey found the Botanic Garden hosts up to five distinct bat species, more than any other site surveyed in Tarrant and Parker counties.

The suspect hit several vehicles and a woman who was standing outside her car and tried to run away from the crash scene, the Texas Highway Patrol said.

The girl's father, identified as Michael Cain, 35, is suspected of providing the girl with alcoholic drinks and drinking them with her hours before her death.

All modes of severe weather are possible; however, due to the environmental factors, there is a significant threat for large hail and tornadoes. This means that storms have the potential of developing hailstones that could get up to 2" in diameter or larger along with strong tornadoes.

Public schools across North Texas are confronting tight budgets. Their bleak financial outlook — combined with declining enrollment — drove some area district leaders to close campuses.

Navy veteran DeeDee Dickson is wheelchair-bound and says the number of hours she can have home health care have been reduced because of VA cuts.

Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly clerk, received the death penalty in 2013.

Pop star Katy Perry performed a rescheduled show at the American Airlines Center in Dallas Thursday, May 22 after the Dallas Stars bumped her from her original tour date of Wednesday, May 21 due to Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs.