The top local news stories in the Dallas-Fort Worth area updated several times each weekday.

Plus a settlement in the over dose death of a MLB pitcher

Plus the Cowboys remain supreme

The "super flu" is coming and the Cowboys are flailing once again

Plus the Cowboys blow a great chance and Arlington rolls out the red carpet

Plus, a Lewisville police officer faces a charge of sexual assault of a child, and the state of Texas is suing a Wisconsin company for blocking parents access to their children's medical records.

Plus more on a jury's decision to award a family $44 million after a crash during winter storm Uri

Plus only 12 shopping days left until Christmas, an Army gynecologist at Fort Hood is under arrest after allegations he secretly videotaped patients during exams, human rights groups claim they've found inhumane conditions at the ICE detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, and more!

Plus the bizarre story out of Michigan, and making sure Texas keeps the lights on in an AI world

Plus a sad morning at a pair of Grapevine-Colleyville campuses as kids are waking up to learn their schools will be closing, H-E-B is coming to Dallas, a Dallas City Council homelessness meeting broke up early after a tense exchange between Councilman Adam Bazaldua and an SMU data professor, and more!

Plus First Baptist Church in Dallas is getting a huge gift from the family that owns Hobby Lobby, a non-profit in Dallas in hosting families this week to help those who might be struggling to make ends meet give their kids a merry Christmas, Texas has launched a cryptocurrency reserve with a $5-million purchase of Bitcoin, and more!

Following a massive fire, someone is helping build back that historic First Baptist Dallas sanctuary

Plus, the political primary season is now in full swing with big changes on the North Texas scene, Frederick Haynes III filed Monday to run for Congress in District 30, an apparent murder/suicide in Fort Worth after police say a man and a woman were found dead following a welfare check, and more!

Plus a shocker in the world of entertainment and the death of a Texas legend

Plus it's our second freeze of the year, Dallas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is set to make a 'Special Announcement', President Trump is now publicly unloading on South Texas congressman Henry Cuellar - just days after pardoning him and his wife on bribery and foreign-agent charges, and more!

Plus the Cowboys got mauled by the Lions, are playoffs still a possibility??

Plus the Cowboys' playoff hopes are on life support following last night's loss in Detroit, the Supreme Court overrules an appeals court and says Texas CAN use the newly drawn congressional maps in the midterms, a 12-year-old in Wylie is accused of making threats against a school administrator, and more!

Plus the Cowboys need a win in Detroit...Cowboys fans feeling good...Lions fans, not so much

Plus the Cowboys and Lions meet in Detroit tonight with both fighting for the final Wild Card slot, nine of the people accused of attacking an immigration detention center in Alvarado this summer are pleading "not guilty" to the federal charges against them, a new Dallas County program helping workers pay for child care is getting praise from local businesses, and more!

Should Camp Mistic re-open? Would you send your child there? Can the Cowboys win in Detroit?

Plus a three-alarm fire tore through an apartment building on Randy Drive in West Arlington leaving 15 People displaced, crisis counselors will be on hand today at the Marcus High School 9th Grade Campus in Flower Mound because of yesterday's death of a student, and more!

Plus Fort Worth is getting into the holiday spirit with a large tree lighting tonight, another city in North Texas is holding a meeting to discuss its future with DART, Dallas city leaders hope a proposed hybrid plan will keep Fair Park attractive all year long and not just for the State Fair of Texas, and more!

Plus do the Longhorns belong in the playoffs? What is hot this Cyber Monday?

Plus a fast-moving federal investigation is underway after authorities arrested Mohammad Dawood Alokozay in Tarrant County, expect to see a few people at the office distracted by their Christmas shopping today, with Christmas just 24 days away we are heading into the final stretch of the Salvation Army Angel Tree program across North Texas, and more!

Travel on the busiest travel day of the year. Plus...the best comedies of all time

Plus despite having an historic season...UNT will need to find a new football coach, a reminder that if you're headed to the big airport there is a lot of construction to navigate, lawmakers in Washington are looking for ways to maximize the long-term economic impact of next year's World Cup matches in the US, and more!

What was that smell? And the Cowboys may have a new locker room leader

Plus, Thanksgiving is also one of the busiest DRIVING holidays of the year, Texas AG Ken Paxton declines to weigh in on whether Johnson County Sheriff Adam King can remain in office, DART may lose another city, and more!

Plus the Cowboys win a thriller! Could this team be good again??

Plus for the first time this year the Cowboys win two in a row, questions about which Congressional Maps will Texas use in the 2026 election, a new addition to the Rockwall police K-9 unit, and more!

Plus UNT has a real shot at the college football playoffs. We meet their QB

Plus an illegal immigrant accused of cutting a Dallas man's head off will NOT face the death penalty, a man is facing criminal charges in connection with a deadly crash involving a T-R-E train, Governor Abbott and the Council of American-Islamic Relations are heading for a showdown in federal court over Abbott's recent declaration that the Islamic civil rights group is a foreign terrorist organization, and more!

Plus Gov. Abbott is accusing Dallas and Collin County Islamic groups of possible criminal violations as it pertains to Sharia Law, DART is spending 16-million dollars on new security camera systems, the Texas DMV is cracking down on vehicle registrations after reports that illegal immigrants were able to register cars in the state, and more!

Plus a major scam exposed in Parker County

Plus the state plans to appeal a federal court panel's ruling that finds the new Texas congressional map violates the Constitution, Fort Worth school trustees have agreed to fight the recent state take-over of the district, a driver is up on intoxication manslaughter charges following yesterday's death of a Collin County boy, and more!

Plus, those new congressional maps may need to be done again

Plus the Grapevine Colleyville school district meets for the first time since recommending two schools be closed, an intruder is dead after breaking into a Grand Prairie home, former Arlington Mayor Elzie Odom has died, and more!

So can the Cowboys keep their season alive in Las Vegas?

Plus the Cowboys are back in action tonight after their bye week and they are getting healthier for the second half of their season, the new DART Board chairman is already facing a revolt from four of the agency's 13 member cities, TxDot is improving sidewalks for bikers and pedestrians all over the state, and more!

How quickly will north Texans started feeling the relief?

Plus Texas Governor Greg Abbott begins his re-election campaign in Houston, California Governor Gavin Newsom pays a visit to Texas over the weekend, Taylor Sheridan and his production company are done with north Texas, and more!

DFW and Love Field are some of the airports affected