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Trump-backed GOP candidate for Texas House charged with impersonating a public servant


June 25, 2022

Frederick Frazier, the Republican candidate for Texas House District 61, has been charged with two counts of impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony, after an investigation over accusations of sign-stealing during his campaign. Frederick Frazier(Richardson Police Department) A Collin County grand jury handed up its indictment of Frazier, a Dallas police officer, on Thursday. Frazier turned himself in to …

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Trump-backed GOP candidate for Texas House charged with impersonating a public servant


June 25, 2022

Frederick Frazier, the Republican candidate for Texas House District 61, has been charged with two counts of impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony, after an investigation over accusations of sign-stealing during his campaign. Frederick Frazier(Richardson Police Department) A Collin County grand jury handed up its indictment of Frazier, a Dallas police officer, on Thursday. Frazier turned himself in to …

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Workers say Dallas firing is connected to unionization effort at Starbucks


June 25, 2022

Starbucks fired a worker at its Mockingbird Station store last week in what employees say is a reaction against their efforts to unionize. The coffee giant says it was just following its policies. “We expect further retaliation as our election draws closer, and the company can expect a commensurate response from us,” the store’s union Twitter page tweeted the day of the …

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Key headlines on Roe v. Wade, end of an era for abortion rights protections


June 25, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled Friday in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision that established the constitutional right to an abortion and returning regulation to the states. In Texas, a “trigger ban” will go into effect within 30 days of the judgment becoming final, making nearly all abortions illegal. Officers were called to …

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Construction worker dies in McKinney accident


June 25, 2022

A construction worker died in an accident Friday morning in McKinney, Collin County authorities said. Investigators were called about 9:40 a.m. to the work site near FM543 and County Road 202, where a sewer-line trench had caved in. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as 41-year-old Paulin Sanchez. The sheriff’s office and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration …

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Texas clinics halt abortions after Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision


June 25, 2022

Clinics ceased abortions and funds paused helping women obtain the procedure in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Friday overturning Roe vs. Wade. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an advisory Friday that abortion providers could be held criminally liable if prosecutors choose to enforce laws banning abortion that are still on the books, but were unenforceable under the 1973 …

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‘Sick at my heart’: Protesters gather in Dallas after abortion ruling


June 25, 2022

Across the street from a federal building whose windows had been boarded up earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered Friday evening in downtown Dallas to express their emotions — outrage, grief, dread — following the overturning of the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling. Congregated in Civic Garden park in triple-digit temperatures and holding signs with messages like “Why …

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‘Devastating’: Texas protesters outside Supreme Court react to Roe v. Wade reversal


June 25, 2022

WASHINGTON – Anti-abortion activists chanted “Goodbye, Roe” and “We are the post-Roe generation” Friday outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the ruling that overturned the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. On the opposing side, protesters countered with cries of, “We will aid and abet abortion,” and “We’re not going anywhere.” Paxton Smith, the Lake Highlands High School valedictorian who delivered her 2021 speech …

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41-year-old at large after teen’s fatal shooting in West Dallas, police say


June 25, 2022

Police are looking for a 41-year-old man after the slaying of a teenager this week in West Dallas. Officers were called about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 3300 block of Rutz Street, near Dennison Street, where they found 18-year-old Jose Cruz fatally shot. Police said Friday that although detectives initially believed the shooting was a suicide, they determined that the …

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