The Latest Breaking News from Fort Worth

Family of Texas veteran held prisoner in Russia meets with Biden at White House

FORT WORTH, Texas — A spokesperson for the family of Fort Worth native Marine veteran Trevor Reed confirmed President Joe Biden met with Reed's parents Wednesday about efforts to free their son from wrongful imprisonment in Russia.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022

‘Yellowstone’ fans rejoice: The 4th season is now streaming. Here’s how to watch it

FORT WORTH, Texas — “Yellowstone” fans will have something to hold them over until the show returns for a season 5: The fourth season is now streaming.

Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2022

Cynthia M. Allen: Texas fetal heartbeat law has become a model for other states seeking to reduce abortions

FORT WORTH, Texas — While I was early to praise Texas’ heart-beat law, I’ll admit that I had some concerns and reservations, too.

Tribune News Service · Mar 28, 2022

Texas' Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties under tornado warning; damage reported in Jack, Montague counties

DALLAS — Severe storms tore across much of North Texas Monday evening, with a tornado damaging a high school in Jack County, emergency crews launching a search-and-rescue effort in Montague County and The National Weather Service issuing several tornado watches and warnings from Fort Worth to Austin.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Cynthia M. Allen: One silver lining in the cloud of pandemic schooling: support for school choice is soaring

FORT WORTH, Texas — If you’ve paid any attention to the very public, very divisive debates over school administration, policy, curricula and academic outcomes — in Fort Worth, Southlake and several other parts of the country — you know that we have yet to experience all of the aftershocks from…

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Evacuations underway as swift wildfire burns in 2 North Texas counties

FORT WORTH, Texas — Separate wildfires swept through grass in three North Texas counties on Sunday, and authorities ordered people in their path to evacuate.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

‘It looks a little bit like a bomb site’: At least 50 homes lost in Texas wildfire

FORT WORTH, Texas — West Texas families are going back to their homes in Carbon, after having evacuated because of the Eastland Complex wildfire, to find rubble and ash where their houses used to be.

Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2022

Mac Engel: From COVID to North Carolina, how Baylor got the short end of another March Madness

FORT WORTH, Texas — Writer's Note: Blaming the officiating crew for an outcome a game is a lazy, tired path and ... sometimes the path of least resistance is the correct one.

Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2022

Mac Engel: Texas' coup wasn't getting Chris Beard, it was lining up Shaka Smart for Marquette

FORT WORTH, Texas — A few days shy of the one-year anniversary of the third-worst loss in Texas history, the man who coached the Longhorns to that memorable defeat against Abilene Christian looks well.

Tribune News Service · Mar 19, 2022

Gov. Greg Abbott signs disaster declaration for 11 counties as wildfires rage west of Fort Worth

Dozens of local, county and state crews were struggling to contain a cluster of wildfires about 120 miles west of Fort Worth on Friday. Fueled by wind and dry conditions, the largest of the fires had swelled to over 45,000 acres, burning dozens of homes, forcing evacuations in Abilene and…

Tribune News Service · Mar 19, 2022