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  Carrollton-Based Motel 6 Agrees to $7.6 Million Settlement for Providing Guest Lists to ICE

  November 8 at 4 a.m.

  The Motel 6 hotel chain has agreed to a $7.6 million settlement with a group of individuals who sued the company earlier this year for disclosing their personal information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while they stayed at the hotel. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued...

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  DA Johnson's Silence Is Deafening to Organizers Fighting to End Mass Incarceration

  November 1 at 4 a.m.

  District Attorney Faith Johnson's silence on her decision to try six teens charged for armed robbery as adults is drawing criticism from organizers working to end mass incarceration. The six teens, all between the ages of 13 and 16, allegedly stole a black Chevy Malibu at gunpoint in the early...

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  Dallas Jury Sentences Dentist's Murderer to Death

  November 1 at 4 a.m.

  After hearing three days of witnesses and arguments, a Dallas County jury took less than four hours to sentence a Dallas man to death for shooting a dentist in the head as part of a plot allegedly conceived by the dentist's boyfriend's jilted former girlfriend. Brenda Delgado allegedly paid Kristopher...

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  Botham Jean's Family Sues Dallas in Federal Court

  October 26 at 6:30 p.m.

  The family of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old accountant shot and killed in his own apartment by an off-duty Dallas police officer on Sept. 6, sued the city in federal court late Friday. The suit alleges that Amber Guyger, the police officer who shot Jean, used excessive force and violated Jean's...

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  Just in Time for Halloween, Exxxotica Lawsuit Is Back from the Dead

  October 25 at 4 a.m.

  Three days. That's how quickly it would've been over if Dallas had just let Jeff Handy have his convention in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Instead, here we are two-and-a-half years later with no end in sight to the legal battle between Handy and the city. Wednesday, the 5th...

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  Bringing Back Some Pot Edibles From Colorado? Texas Has a Nasty Surprise for You.

  October 23 at 4 a.m.

  Mary Jane preferred animals to people “10 out of 10 times,” she says. She grew up in southern Louisiana, a place of winding swampland roads where family ties run deep. She studied wildlife management with a focus in aquaculture at Louisiana State University. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents...