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Successful international Mushaira organized by AlNoor International (“Celebration of Dallas Poets “) AlNoor intl: won the hearts of the audience by demonstrating their cultural & values.poets work truly touches the human hearts & evokes emotions. Coverage by the Jago Times Dallas Report: Raja Zahid Khanzada Camera Person: Muzaffar Syed

MORTON, Miss. (AP) — U.S. immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino border city where a man linked to an online screed about a “Hispanic …

A 34-year-old man was killed in a shooting during an argument in a home Tuesday night in South Dallas, police said. The shooting was reported around 11:15 p.m. in the 4000 block of Penelope Street. Witnesses told police that several suspects were allowed inside the house and then an argument broke out. The victim, whose name has not been released, …

A man is dead after he was shot outside a nightclub near Texas Southern University, police said. Houston Lt. Larry Crowson said police were called to the 3000 block of Blodgett Street outside of Spivey’s, a night club near TSU When they arrived, they found a man that had been shot, Crowson said. He was transported to the hospital where …

    Four-day Sister Cities International (SCI) Conference held in Houston, By: Amir Makhani Houston:More than 700 elected municipal officials representative, business leaders, diplomats and students gathered in Houston from July 16-19 to participate in the  Sister Cities International (SCI) Conference and Sister Cities International Youth Leadership Summit celebrating the organization’s 62nd anniversary. Participants engaged in a Parade of Flags, …

Jurors in the Tarrant County capital murder trial of a popular rapper on Wednesday heard from the victim’s roommate who testified he was set up by his own girlfriend. The artist, Taymor McIntyre, is better known as Tay-K 47. He’s charged with participating in a robbery and murder during a home invasion in Mansfield three years ago. The house belonged …

The U.S. is preparing to send 500 troops to Saudi Arabia in response to rising tensions with Iran, CNN reported, citing unidentified defense officials. They will be based at the Prince Sultan air base and are part of the additional 1,000 troops the Pentagon announced last month it was sending to the Middle East, CNN said. The U.S. chose the …

Dozens of Dallas police officers on Friday received letters notifying them they’re under internal investigations for their social-media posts. The announcement comes about a month after researchers with The Plain View Project published a database of years of public Facebook posts from eight departments that the database’s creators said “could undermine public trust and confidence in police.” The posts included …

DALLAS (AP) — A former Dallas Cowboys player previously convicted in a drunken driving crash that killed a teammate is now wanted for violating his probation. The Dallas County Sheriff’s office says a warrant was issued for the arrest of Josh Brent after the former defensive lineman was charged with assaulting a police officer. Brent was arrested Sunday in the …

Two men were arrested early Tuesday after leading police on a pursuit following a carjacking in northwest Houston, according to police. One of the suspects, Horace Marquese Harris, 20, was reportedly out on bond for a capital murder charge in Harris County, police said. The other suspect, later identified as Marqui Lamon Davis, had two previous robbery convictions, police said. …