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Dallas officials approve Elm Thicket -Northpark zoning changes that reduce new home sizes - Garland Journal
Supporters hope the changes, including limiting home lot coverage to 40%, will help preserve the Love Field area neighborhood. The post Dallas officials approve Elm Thicket -Northpark zoning changes that reduce new home sizes appeared first on Garland Journal.
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Texas Legislature votes Unanimously to ensure access to Affordable Colorectal Cancer Screenings | Dallas Weekly
the Texas Legislature voted unanimously in support of Senate bill 1028, ensuring Texans can access affordable preventative colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 45
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Texas Lottery breaks all-time sales record – again
The Texas Lottery achieved $8.3 billion in sales during fiscal year 2022. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Lottery has broken its all-time sales record for the 12th year in a row. The lottery achieved $8.297 billion in sales in fiscal year 2022. That’s an increase of $189.7 million, or 2.3%, over fiscal
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Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid - Garland Journal
This story, originally published in The Dallas Morning News, is reprinted as part of a collaborative partnership between The Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News. The partnership seeks to boost coverage of Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern
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US intelligence chief tells Congress she's conducting damage assessment of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago - The Atlanta Voice
(CNN) - Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents taken from former President Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-La
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GOP bills passing in Austin deemed ‘voter suppression’ by Dems - North Dallas Gazette
AUSTIN - Despite widespread condemnation from voting rights advocates and testimony from over a hundred Texans, Republicans passed Senate Bill 7 through the state Senate Committee on State Affairs late on March 29. What Democrats and many others call the “voter suppression bill” now heads to the
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Metro to Outfit Officers With Body Cameras by 2023
The Metro Transit Police Department has been awarded a $905,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to equip officers with body worn cameras (BWC). Transit Police Chief Michael Anzallo said […] The post Metro to Outfit Officers With Body Cameras by 2023 appeared first on T
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4 important things to know about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint
The FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s estate on Aug. 8, 2022, caught Trump by surprise – and prompted immediate speculation about exactly why and how the law enforcement agency secured a search
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Former State Rep. Hudson remembered - Texas Metro News
By Norma Adams Wade and Cheryl Smith Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s tribute was among the many shared as word of the death of former Texas State Rep. Samuel William Hudson III, spread.   Hudson, who was 81, died Monday, according to sources who also confirmed that the arrangements would be
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Arrests, Prosecutions Continue in DOJ Probe of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
As a congressional committee continues to hold hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said its continued investigation into the deadly insurrection has resulted in more than 1,000 criminal charges, several convictions or guilty pleas, and
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President Biden Announces Clemency and Pardons for 78 People, Details New Steps for Criminal Justice Reform | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Helping those who served their time return to their families and become contributing members of their communities is one of the most effective ways to reduce recidivism and decrease crime,” said President
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2020 trauma aside, it’s time to VOTE! - Dallas Examiner
By ROYCE WEST Texas Senate Nearly a month into a new year it’s cautionary, if not troubling, that much of America’s political energy is still invested in events surrounding the 2020 presidential election, [...] The post 2020 trauma aside, it’s time to VOTE! appeared first on Dallas Examiner.
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Houston/Harris Co unite to fight human trafficking with ‘No Trafficking Zone’ - DefenderNetwork.com
Though Human Trafficking Month (January) has passed, the Houston area still remains one of the nation’s most notorious hot spots for this horrid crime. During Human Trafficking Month, many leading […]
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Targeting three congressional seats, Republicans blitz South Texas with attack ads
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Democrats are confronting a blitz of attack ads in South Texas as Republicans make good on their promise to seriously contest three congressional seats there. Since Labor Day, outside GOP
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Sen. Royce West inducted into the National Bar Association Fred Gray Hall Of Fame - Dallas Examiner
Special to The Dallas Examiner   MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Texas State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, was honored July 28 with induction into the Fred David Gray Hall of Fame of the National Bar
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DOJ Charges 4 Police Officers in Deadly Breonna Taylor Raid
The Department of Justice on Thursday charged four current and former police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, in connection to the death of Breonna Taylor and the fatal March 2020 raid on her apartment. The post DOJ Charges 4 Police Officers in Deadly Breonna Taylor Raid appear
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Blacks are sitting ducks after Gov. Abbott lifts mask mandate | Afram News
By: Roy Douglas Malonson Greg Abbott has lost his damn mind! The Texas governor announced this week that Texas will be reopening at 100 % and he is lifting the mask mandate. With all of the statistics and everything going on, why would he choose to do that when we know that, not only
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Record spending continues on California’s sports gambling initiatives
LOS ANGELES — The campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California is the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history at about $400 million and counting, pitting wealthy Native American tribes against online gambling companies and less-affluent tribes over what’s expected
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White House Announces Resources Guarding Against Threats to HBCUs
Thirty-six historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have received bomb threats against their campuses since February 1, 2022. HBCUs are now eligible for grant funding under the Project School Emergency […] The post White House Announces Resources Guarding Against Thr
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Uvalde Parents Confront Gov. Greg Abbott Over Texas Gun Law news -The Black Chronicle Abbott, Confront, Gov, Greg, Greg Abbott, Gun, Gun Control, Guns, Law, mass shootings, Parents, Texas, texas news, texas news update, Uvalde
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may have woken up Saturday to the sound of parents screaming the names of their children who died in the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde. Family members of about a dozen of the students and teachers who died in the attack gathered in front of the
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Women in Texas face higher poverty rates, a result of policy choices and systemic barriers
The Texas Women’s Foundation has been drawing attention to the economic issues facing women in Texas for years, focusing on four “pillars” that produce financial security: education, child care, health insurance and
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Federal trial over Texas political maps delayed by evidence disputes
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The legal fight over the shape of Texas political representation for the next decade won’t be decided until next year after a federal panel agreed Tuesday to delay a trial over new political
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City of Dallas Adopts Resolution to Support a Free-Fare Student Transit Program; DART to Consider a Student Program - Texas Metro News
Dallas – The Dallas City Council approved a resolution in support of the development and implementation of a Student Transit Program offering free fares for kindergarten through twelfth grade students on DART’s bus and rail transit system. DART is in the early stages of researching this potential
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Biden pardons Abraham Bolden after multiple Crusader articles - The Chicago Crusader
Nearly 60 years after he was framed by racist government officials, Chicago resident Abraham Bolden, who became the nation’s first Black Secret Service agent during the start of the Civil
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Decades After Brown v. Board, US Schools Still Struggle With Segregation
The Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, handed down in 1954, was supposed to end racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. But that work remains undone, as evidenced by a U.S. Department of Justice collection showing dozens of active school-desegregation cases even in
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The year Texas dominated national headlines
TEXAS — The Lone Star State made national headline news more than once in 2021, thanks to a long list of new and controversial politics and laws enacted in Texas this year. What You Need To Know Texas was front and center in the headlines several times this year as its politics garnered national
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GOP leader Kevin McCarthy says Texas essential in Republican effort to seize U.S. House - Texas Metro News
This story, originally published in The Dallas Morning News, is reprinted as part of a collaborative partnership between The Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News. The partnership seeks to boost coverage of Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern
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Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley endorses Mike Collier
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, one of Texas’ most prominent Republican local leaders, is backing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Democratic challenger. “The one person who I’ll support statewide
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Three Draw Harsh Sentences For Their Roles in RICO Conspiracy
Three people charged with taking part in an expansive criminal conspiracy received lengthy prison terms from a federal judge on St. Croix. U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Virgin Islands Delia Smith announced the sentencings in a statement issued Wednesday.
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Takeaways from the court hearing on releasing more documents from the Mar-a-Lago search - The Atlanta Voice
(CNN) - A US magistrate judge started the process of potentially releasing some information from the affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Florida residence. Judge Bruce Reinhart said during a hearing at the West
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