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An Amber Alert has been issued for an 11-year-old girl who was last seen in in Franklin, Texas.

NBC 5’s Pat Doney recaps regional final weekend which included matchups between Duncanville and Southlake Carroll, Frisco Lone Star and Lancaster, and an overtime thriller between Aledo and Ennis.

NBC 5’s Pat Doney recaps the third week of the high school football playoffs, including an overtime thriller between Highland Park and Frisco Lone Star, a dominant performance by Duncanville, and a come-from-behind win for Rockwall.

Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com’s high school football rankings following Week 10, distributed by The Associated Press.

Such a quintessentially American role, some said, should have gone to an African American actress. Erivo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants to England, was born in London and currently lives in New York.

NBC 5’s Pat Doney recaps a big weekend in high school football, including close wins for Highland Park and Birdville, plus Fort Worth North Side and Richland complete historic runs to clinch a playoff berth.

British actress Cynthia Erivo is relatively small in stature. In person, she is earnest and genial. In performance, the 32-year-old can appear achingly vulnerable. And if you’re not paying attention, she will bowl you over. Now, after glimpses of her on-screen power last year in Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” Erivo gives her...

Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday, Nov. 3, so get ready to change all the clocks back an hour at 2 a.m. — you’ll get an extra hour of sleep that night, but you’ll also lose an hour of evening light.

Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com’s high school football rankings following Week 9, distributed by The Associated Press.

NBC 5’s Pat Doney recaps a wild week of high school football, including a close finish in the Mound Showdown, DeSoto getting upset by Mansfield Summit, and Lancaster impressing in a win over Mansfield Timberview.

Check out the Texas high school football scores for games played between Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 5-7.

Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from a direct hit but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes, and prolonged power outages. Though the system was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday afternoon and its winds were steadily weakening since it made landfall Saturday in Louisiana, Barry’s rain bands...

NBC 5 Chief Meteorologist Rick Mitchell ask: Upon arrival in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, who purchased a new thermometer?

A fight is emerging over whether a son of Aretha Franklin could be put in charge of the late singer’s estate after a 2014 handwritten will was found under cushions in her suburban Detroit home. Attorneys for the estate said in a court filing Monday that “there is no basis to support the assumption” that Kecalf Franklin has the “ability,...

Walmart is going to begin delivering groceries inside shoppers’ homes. Right to their kitchen refrigerators. Starting this fall, nearly 1 million people across three cities — Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh and Vero Beach, Florida — will have access to Walmart’s new in-home delivery option, the retailer announced Friday at its annual shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company said it...

Two Fort Worth police officers were injured when a vehicle crashed into a squad car Monday night on Interstate 35W, police say.

A strong storm system barreling through the South on Friday killed an 8-year-old girl in Florida and threatened to bring tornadoes to large parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia.

Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930. The Pulitzer board said the award was given to Franklin for “her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more...

The storm that injured over a dozen and damaged several buildings in Franklin on Saturday, produced a tornado that left a 32.6-mile long trail of damage over 55 minutes, the National Weather Service said Monday.