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For the second time in five days – and also the second time in Walmart’s five decades – workers at multiple U.S. Walmart stores are on strike. This morning, workers walked off the job at stores in Dallas, Texas; Miami, Florida; Seattle, Washington; Laurel, Maryland; and Northern, Central, and Southern California. No end date has been announced; some plan to remain on strike at least through tomorrow, when they’ll join other Walmart workers for a demonstration outside the company’s annual investor meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas. Today’s is the latest in a wave of Walmart supply chain strikes without precedent in the United States: From shrimp workers in Louisiana, to warehouse workers in California and Illinois, to Walmart store employees in five states.

A road tanker carrying more than 8,000 gallons of fuel was hit by a freight train in Wills Point, near Dallas, Texas, early Thursday, causing an explosion.

Hundreds of vehicles were left damaged after softball-sized hail rained down on parts of Dallas, Texas.

A standoff between police and a reported fugitive who climbed a construction crane in Dallas, Texas, ended early Tuesday after the man fell to the ground.

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Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was attending a small college near Lubbock, Texas. The FBI says he purchased chemicals and bomb components and kept a detailed journal outlining his targets, including former President George W. Bush's home in Dallas and dams in Colorado and California.

Texas law enforcement agents will be hunting for a little-known crime during this week's Super Bowl festivities in metropolitan Dallas: child sex rings.

Authorities say tornadoes have damaged several North Texas homes and a school and overturned several vehicles on an interstate highway near Dallas.

Erykah Badu must pay a $500 fine and serve six months on probation for her naked stroll through downtown Dallas, Texas, while making a music video last March, a city official confirmed Tuesday.

More than 20,000 people gathered at tailgate parties and other spots Sunday to watch fireworks go off one last time over Texas Stadium before a ton of dynamite lit up the Dallas Cowboys' longtime home and brought it to the ground....

Grief counselors are on hand at a suburban Dallas elementary school after a 9-year-old boy was found hanged in a school bathroom. Police in The Colony say the fourth-grader was found by school staff at Stewart's Creek Elementary ...