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Foster Care

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Dallas PD Asks For Public's Help Finding Mentally Ill Man Missing Since Last Week

    ​The man you see at right is Brandon Yerby. He is 22. And he has been missing since Thursday. That is why, moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent out an endangered-person alert -- because the department's hoping that maybe you've seen him.According to the police report, Yerby went missing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Rick Perry, State Officials Named in Class Action Over Failures in Texas's Long-Term Foster Care

    ​A lengthy federal suit filed this morning by the national advocacy group Children's Rights says Gov. Rick Perry and other state officials have neglected their legal responsibility to the children in state care, and violated their constitutional rights, by "failing to either return them safely to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2011

    Toast A Lady In Lit

    ​A lengthy federal suit filed this morning by the national advocacy group Children's Rights says Gov. Rick Perry and other state officials have neglected their legal responsibility to the children in state care, and violated their constitutional rights, by "failing to either return them safely to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Hey, John Wiley, Give a Dog a Bone, Willya?

    ​Doesn't it seem like only yesterday that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was telling everybody that County Judge Jim Foster was wacky? Now who wears the wacko jacket every week at commissioners court? This week Price harangued Foster for wanting to direct the county's constables to c ... More >>

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    Tanking a Home for Foster Children May Help Enrich One County Commissioner's Kid

    Commissioner Maurine Dickey tanked a land deal to house foster kids, and now her son is brokering the land's sale.

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    Standing Up for Abused Children

    Commissioner Maurine Dickey tanked a land deal to house foster kids, and now her son is brokering the land's sale.

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Southern Fried|The Death Train|Disposable Kids

    Commissioner Maurine Dickey tanked a land deal to house foster kids, and now her son is brokering the land's sale.

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Orphaned

    The most troubled kids get short shrift in state care

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2007

    Dallas Tech Firm Tells PETA to Mind its Own Monkey Business

    The most troubled kids get short shrift in state care

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Little Lost Boys...and Girls

    Is the move to privatize Child Protective Services leaving huge gaps in care?

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2006

    Dispatch from the Lost Indian Baby Affairs Desk

    Is the move to privatize Child Protective Services leaving huge gaps in care?

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    The Parent Trap

    Cherokees step in to break up an adoptive family over race

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2005

    Make Tracks

    Cherokees step in to break up an adoptive family over race

  • Film

    October 10, 2002

    Foster Pussycat

    White Oleander is blonde but ambitionless

  • Best of Dallas

    September 26, 2002

    Best Place to Get a Pet

    Golden Retriever Rescue of North Texas Inc.

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    The Orphan Chronicles

    Dallas' own tribe of Oliver Twists can teach us much about the places they've been, and where we're all going

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Careless

    After an infant died in a Cedar Hill foster home, state investigators turned up evidence of neglect and greed. The worst thing is, they already knew.

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    A mother and child reunion

    Eight years after the state took away their children, an Albanian Muslim couple take their first, bitter steps toward rebuilding their broken hearts and family

  • News

    April 18, 1996

    Juvenile Injustice

    When Ron Carpenter's nanny got busted, his 3-year-old daughter did the time

  • News

    April 13, 1995

    Finding a home

    Relatives take in homeless boys under single woman's care

  • News

    January 19, 1995

    Accidental angel

    A single Dallas businesswoman stumbles into parenthood

  • News

    November 17, 1994

    'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part I)

    Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents -or their religion?

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