Singer-actor Jessica Simpson and her husband, former NFL player Eric Johnson, have separated after 10 years of marriage.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to allow spiritual chaplains in public schools.

Eric Johnson stopped to help during a traffic accident in Hialeah and he couldn’t believe how long it took for authorities to respond.

Dallas’ police chief says a shooting that injured three women in a hair salon in the city’s Koreatown might have been a hate crime.

NHL games scheduled for Monday and Tuesday between the Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators had already been scrapped. The shuffling of pro events came amid adjustments for several men's and women's college basketball games in Texas because of frigid temperatures and icy conditions for traveling. 12 Texas men's visit to ninth-ranked Oklahoma has been moved back a day to Thursday after originally getting bumped from Tuesday to Wednesday because of the weather. Two other women’s games scheduled for Wednesday had also been called off: Texas at TCU and Texas Tech at Oklahoma. The American Athletic Conference men's game between Tulane and SMU in Dallas scheduled for Wednesday was postponed, with no makeup date announced.

A lone vehicle drives on Victory Ave. in front of American Airlines Center which was to host the Nashville Predators and the Dallas Stars NHL hockey game, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Dallas. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson requested that the teams not play Monday due to a shortage of electricity in the region. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)DALLAS – The Dallas Stars postponed their home game Monday night against the Nashville Predators after a request from city officials not to play because of the impact extreme winter weather had on the area. The NHL didn't announce the postponement until just more than a half-hour before the scheduled start of the game. “I don’t know the status of that grid, but frankly, the Stars game is not critical infrastructure,” Hallman told the DMN.

MIAMI – When Jessica Simpson was starring in MTV’s “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica,” she was struggling with addiction. The reality TV show aired from 2003 to 2005 when she and Nick Lachey got divorced. “I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills,” Simpson wrote in her new memoir, “Open Book,” according to People Magazine. The singer and fashion designer believes the undealt pain from the trauma was fueling her addiction. Simpson told People she got sober in November 2017, three years after she wed Eric Johnson, the father of her three children: 7-year-old Maxwell, 6-year-old Ace and 10-month-old Birdie.

A damaged Talbots store in the Preston Royal shopping area on Oct. 21, 2019, in Dallas, Texas. (CNN) - The tornadoes that tore through northern Texas on Sunday will be the costliest tornado outbreak in Texas history, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. That historic bill is expected to be about $2 billion for the damage caused by the outbreak of at least nine tornadoes in northern Texas, council spokeswoman Camille Garcia told CNN Thursday. Garcia said the previous most-expensive tornado outbreak in Texas came in 2015, when twisters struck the towns of Garland and Rowlett, causing $1.2 billion in losses. The weekend tornado outbreak was part of a line of storms that killed two people in the Great Plains.

She came into the world during a tornado -- taking her first breath by candlelight in a laundry room. The day started out beautifulSekani's mom was a week overdue when she came to the Bump Birthing Center in Rowlett, Texas, on Sunday. With the power out and tornado sirens going off, the staff quickly transformed the safest place in the Center into a birthing room. "We quickly took [the mom] into the laundry room, where we went on to deliver her baby by candlelight," McElhaney said. Luckily, the birthing center had no damage and the electricity came on right after the new family was discharged, McElhaney said.