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  Company Promises to "Take Back Carrollton" from "Illegal Lawn Services"

  July 20 at 4 a.m.

  Carrollton's Jeff Hinkle got a lot of publicity Wednesday and Thursday from one of his business cards featuring his lawn care service business, Mow Masters. Most of the time, getting viral attention on social media for one's business would be a good thing — advertising that money can't buy. For Hinkle, however,...

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  Dallas Marches: Families Belong Together

  June 30 at 7:29 p.m.

  Thousands turned out Saturday to march in protest to the Trump administration's Zero Tolerance Policy affecting families seeking asylum at the border. Photos by Melissa Hennings

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  Chicano Border Activists Pass the Torch to Dallas Students

  June 26 at 4 a.m.

  On March 10, Shellie Ross, executive director of the Wesley-Rankin Community Center, took a busload of West Dallas youthsto the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas. The purpose of the trip was to educate the students about Mexican-American history and introduce them to activists in...

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  Latinos Will Outnumber Whites in Texas by 2022. What Does That Mean for State Politics?

  June 22 at 4 a.m.

  It's only a matter of time, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, before Latinos become Texas' biggest ethnic group. From 2010-17, the state's total Latino population increased by about 1.4 million, from 9.7 million to 11.1 million. Over the same period, the state's white population grew by...

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  American, Southwest Say They Want No Part of Child-Separation Fallout

  June 21 at 4 a.m.

  As President Donald Trump did his best to worm his way out of a self-inflicted crisis Wednesday afternoon, issuing an executive order that halts the separation immigrant children from their parents if the parents are arrested crossing the U.S. border, two of Dallas' biggest companies made it clear that they...

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  As Trump Ends Family Separation, Dallas County Still Prepared to Help

  June 20 at 1:12 p.m.

  President Donald Trump announced early Wednesday afternoon that he will end the policy of separating immigrant children from their families, initiated by the Department of Justice in April. An executive order, which the president said he would sign later in the day, will call for children and families detained trying...