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  Dallas County Set to Count Missing Votes Today

  March 11 at 4 a.m.

  Given the results of last week's primary in Dallas County, whatever's in the mystery boxes discovered by county elections officials last week isn't going to matter. While a few races were close, none of them were close enough that they're going to be swung by adding 44 vote centers' worth...

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  Rent-A-Center Gets Nailed for Suppressing Competition, Walks Away With a Slap on the Wrist

  March 6 at 4 a.m.

  From 2015 to 2018, Rent-A-Center, a Plano-based rent-to-own company, signed a series of illegal agreements with its competitors to shut out competition, according to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. It will now walk away with a slap on the wrist. At the time, the company was struggling. Its...

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  Texas Democrats Sue to Keep Straight-Ticket Voting

  March 6 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Democrats are making hay out of a Super Tuesday that saw voters wait as long as seven hours to cast their ballots after polls closed in Texas. The party, along with national Democratic campaign groups, is suing the state to allow voters to continue voting a straight ticket, if...

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  Desmond Jones Found Guilty of Charges Related to Shavon Randle’s Kidnapping, Murder

  February 28 at 2:32 p.m.

  A Dallas County jury found Desmond Jones guilty Friday afternoon of engaging in criminal activity, a first-degree felony, for his role in the kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Shavon Randle in 2017. The jury deliberated for about three hours. According to prosecution witnesses, Jones and a trio of associates —...

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  Closing Arguments Set in Trial of Man Implicated in Shavon Randle’s Death

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  Shaquana Persley, Shavon Randle's mother, told jurors Thursday that her daughter had just celebrated her 13th birthday with a hotel pool party, two days before she was kidnapped, shot and killed in an alleged post-drug robbery revenge plot.  "They had some fun," Persley said, smiling as she remembered her daughter,...

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  ACLU of Texas Sues 7 Towns over Abortion Sanctuary Ordinances

  February 26 at 4 a.m.

  The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas made good on a threat it's been making for months Tuesday, suing seven East Texas towns in federal court over the towns' decision to declare themselves sanctuary cities for the unborn. Waskom, which kicked the whole sanctuary cities movement off, is a defendant,...