• Downtown Dallas, Deep Ellum brace for New Year's Eve crowds

  

• Packers claim former Cowboys Trevon Diggs off waivers, per reports

  

• Lawrence High teacher killed in Methuen home, son charged with murder

  

• Cheer team from Osaka Japan to perform at New Year's Day Rose Parade

  

• Chicago lawsuits take U.S. Department of Education to task over funding cuts

  

• Court hearings for Chicago groups' lawsuits against U.S. DOE over funding cuts

  

• Stewartville High School shooting victim released from hospital

  

• Stockton students making an impact in community with school Police Explorers