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  Lawsuits Crack Down on Big Pharma for Its Roll In Opioid Crisis

  October 20 at 4 a.m.

  The payback bill keeps getting bigger for the pharmaceutical companies some say had a heavy hand in causing the nation’s opioid crisis. Big pharma companies like Johnson & Johnson have been hit by crashing waves of lawsuits in recent years, accused of deceptively encouraging doctors to prescribe narcotics for chronic...

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  As Defendants Sit in Jail with No Trial Date, Jury Selection Gets Creative

  October 20 at 4 a.m.

  Criminal cases in Dallas County courts have been at a virtual standstill since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. One of the biggest hurdles the court system is trying to overcome is how to select a jury in times of face masks and social distancing.  At the county commissioners court meeting on...

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  UT-Arlington Student Brianna Baucum Fights a Web of Lies to Bring Her Daughter Home

  October 14 at 8:52 a.m.

  If the anonymous tipster were telling the truth, Brianna Baucum is a monster, possibly one with magical powers. Between July 13 and Aug. 28 last year, Baucum killed her 4-year-old daughter Journi at least five times, the tipster told authorities. That doesn’t count the claim that Baucum put her daughter...

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  Despite Calls for Resignation, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Says He's Not Quitting

  October 7 at 4 a.m.

  It’s not dé·jà vu. The Texas attorney general is in trouble again. Seven of Ken Paxton’s top aides filed a whistleblower complaint against their boss alleging that he is violating federal and/or state law relating to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offenses. The letter said that...

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  Defendants, Lawyers and Justice Suffer as Pandemic Shuts Down Trials

  September 22 at 4 a.m.

  For 16 years, Bill Price has successfully defended the city’s prostitutes, drug dealers, drunk drivers and the occasional client accused of murder. But against COVID-19 and a dormant criminal justice system, even the gold medal weightlifter-turned-litigator is powerless. “This virus has crippled the courts,” says the veteran defense attorney. “There...

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  The Battle Over Mail-In Ballots in Texas Isn't About How We Vote, but Who Votes

  September 15 at 4 a.m.

  Beginning in late August, the Texas GOP began sending out absentee ballot applications to registered voters across the state accompanied by political advertisements for President Donald Trump. In stark contrast — and over the same timeframe — the Harris County Republican Party sued to stop the county from sending absentee...