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  Esports May Be Coming to Dallas Schools

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  Teams from schools across Collin and Dallas counties met up last weekend to play in front of a screaming crowd at a stadium in the shadow of Globe Life Park in Arlington. They were playing Nintendo. Mixed into the crowd were parents, classmates, coaches and district administrators. This tournament, they...

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  Forget Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Listen to Wallace Hall.

  October 3 at 4 a.m.

  In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids into college. But a story based right here in Dallas reminds us that stupid Hollywood tricks...

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  Dallas ISD Board Votes to Close Patton Academic Center, Launch Program for Over-Age Students

  September 27 at 12:18 p.m.

  The Dallas ISD board of trustees voted Thursday night to close a struggling alternative high school and replace it with satellite programs at three campuses. Patton Academic Center, in Oak Cliff, is an alternative school for students who either are over-age or behind in class credits needed to graduate. It's...

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  Dallas ISD Wants to Shutter Patton Academic Center. What Happens Now?

  September 24 at 12:23 p.m.

  Nearly everyone involved, including Dallas ISD officials, trustees, parents and students, agrees that something needs to be done about John Leslie Patton Jr. Academic Center. Exactly what should be done is another matter. District officials want to shutter the school and move its students and the services it offers them...

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  Former Baylor Professor Sues University, Claims Anti-Male Bias

  September 17 at 4 a.m.

  A former Baylor University economics professor is suing the university, accusing officials there of mishandling sexual misconduct claims against him. The professor, who is identified in court documents as John Doe, resigned from the university last year amid an investigation into the professor's relationship with a student. In the lawsuit,...

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  After Charter Denial, Baylor LGBTQ Group Pushes Forward

  September 16 at 4 a.m.

  For the last eight years, a group of Baylor University students has been trying to persuade the school to allow them to form an LGBTQ student group. Earlier this month, the group got an official answer from the university. It wasn't the one they'd hoped for. Baylor officials notified members...