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  Dallas Settles With 2013 Shooting Victim for $610,000

  December 12 at 4 a.m.

  Six years later, the legal battle between Dallas and Kelvion Walker is over. Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas City Council voted unanimously to give Walker $610,000, settling an ongoing federal lawsuit over a 2013 shooting. In December 2013, Dallas Police Department officer Amy Wilburn shot Walker as Walker sat in the...

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  Carolyn Davis Outlines How Alleged Bribery Sausage Gets Made in New Court Filing

  December 6 at 4 a.m.

  New words from Carolyn Davis — killed five months ago by an alleged drunk driver as she awaited sentencing on federal corruption charges — explain just how she believed things worked at Dallas City Hall. Davis' statements, contained in a fresh court filing in the federal government's bribery case against...

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  Texas Horse Park Operator Is Refusing to Pay Out Settlement to Injured Grandmother

  December 5 at 4 a.m.

  River Ranch Educational Charities, the scandal-plagued operator of the city-owned horse park in southern Dallas, is refusing to pay out a $25,000 settlement to a woman who was thrown off one of its horses in 2017. The woman, Rhonda Allen, was there on a staff-supervised ride with her daughter and...

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  As American Society of Composers Cracks Down on Venues, Dallas’ Nickel and Rye Faces Legal Action

  December 2 at 4 a.m.

  At the end of October, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) hit 19 venues and restaurants across the U.S. with a Halloween surprise. And it wasn’t candy. The music licensing organization filed legal action against the venues for allegedly not paying fees to have licensed music in...

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  Family of Man Killed in NorthPark Center Garage Wants Millions, Structures Shut Down

  November 21 at 4 a.m.

  NorthPark Center's parking garages would be better classified as dangerous stunt-driving tracks, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Dallas County. The suit, filed by the families of two men hit by a speeding car in the mall's Nordstrom garage in March, calls for NorthPark's garages to be shut down...

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  Dallas Courts Heavy Users of Controversial State Program, Trapping People in Debt for Minor Offenses

  November 15 at 4 a.m.

  Ed Calderon deployed to Iraq three times as a Marine. There, driving fast was a necessity. So when he returned home, he relied on cruise control not to fall into old habits. But it didn’t stop him from getting a speeding ticket in 2007 while he was driving his wife...