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Ricardo Castaneda started losing his sight when he was 4 years old. By age 14, it was gone. “I went to school, ran into a couple walls, figured out I was going blind,” Castaneda said. “The doctor said I was completely blind and there was no recovery from that.” The 19-year-old said the prognosis had him on the sofa for…

Friends and family will celebrate the life of Marquel Ellis Jr. at One Community Church in Plano on Sunday.

Friends and family of Marquel Ellis, Jr. gathered outside the teenager’s high school in his memory on Saturday morning, one week after his life was cut short.

Heading into the home finale against No. 24 Texas A&M on Saturday, there’s a bit of grumbling about Georgia’s offense that has struggled to break games open.

Marquel Ellis Jr. was shot, and later died, at a party Saturday in Plano. Kemond Smith, 17, is charged with murder. Ellis’ father and football coach both sat down to speak with NBC 5.

Counselors are standing ready to help students and staff at Allen High School after a 16-year-old student-athlete was fatally shot during a party Saturday night.

Officers responded about 10 p.m. to a shooting in the 3200 block of Peachtree Lane, near Spring Creek Parkway.

Nike will investigate accusations of abuse by Mary Cain while she was part of Alberto Salazar’s training group. The runner says it reached the point where she started having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. Cain joined the disbanded Nike Oregon Project run by Salazar in 2013, soon after competing in the 1,500-meter final at track and field’s world championships when...

Residents in cities across North Texas scrambled to safety two Sundays ago as tornadoes tore through entire communities. In Garland, a former college soccer star is picking up the pieces and trying to find priceless items that were blown away in the tornado.

Residents in cities across North Texas scrambled to safety two Sundays ago as tornadoes tore through entire communities. In Garland, a former college soccer star is picking up the pieces and trying to find priceless items that were blown away in the tornado.

There’s been quite a bit of reaction to the big news from the NCAA. The governing body started the process that will allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeliness.

The United States’ largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.” The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules...

Teammates of a Bowie High school football player honored him at Friday night’s game. The varsity team took the field just a day after the shooting death of Anthony Strather.

Teammates of a Bowie High school football player honored him at Friday night’s game. The varsity team took the field just a day after the shooting death of Anthony Strather.

Arlington Grace Prep cross country runner Drew Moore is the Wingstop Scholar Athlete for October and brings home a $3,000 scholarship.

A man who testified in the Amber Guyger murder trial died Friday night after he was found shot multiple times at a Dallas apartment complex, the Dallas County District Attorney’s office confirms.

An ex-cheerleader who suffered multiple concussions while on the University of California, Berkeley’s cheerleading team, filed a lawsuit against the school, USA Federation for Sport Cheering, and her former coaches, for repeatedly endangering her health and safety, according to a complaint filed this week in Alameda County Superior Court.

So far this season, Southern Methodist University football’s not only taking to the field with its best record in decades. The team’s also sporting a new brand catching a lot of attention.

Denton Guyer’s Kaedric Cobbs is one of the best running backs in North Texas but that’s not all, with a 5.0 GPA, he is number one in his senior class.