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Did you get your little “blue love note” in the mail yet? That’s what Tarrant County Judge Glenn Whitley sarcastically calls the annual appraisal notices we get on blue paper every year from our friends at the county appraisal district. I didn’t get one yet, but The Watchdog is intrepid. I went to my property listing on my appraisal district …

The historic West Dallas home of outlaw Clyde Barrow, infamously known as part of the 1930s crime spree duo Bonnie and Clyde, has been torn down. The home at 1221 Singleton Blvd. was demolished Wednesday after the owner said he wanted to tear it down. A moratorium related to its historic preservation expired March 2, a Dallas city spokeswoman said. The property …

A federal health care program that Texas uses to help pay for health care for uninsured Texans — worth billions of dollars annually — is safe for another decade after the federal government said Friday that it would stop fighting the Trump-era agreement to extend the program beyond its expiration date later this year. “It is not the best use of the federal government’s …

A Wind Advisory is in effect through 6 AM Saturday. A south wind will gust 30-40 mph. Saturday afternoon highs will climb into the mid to the mid 80s with clouds and occasional sun. Dry weather is expected Saturday as any storms will remain well west of North Texas. A big weather change on Sunday will bring widespread rain and …

Patrick Davis says he wouldn’t be in the middle of the street asking strangers for help if he felt like he had other options. The 52-year-old said he’s been homeless for four weeks after losing his housing in Killeen. Standing on a median in the shadow of U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas’ Lake Highlands, he held a cardboard sign on Tuesday …

Dallas County’s public health committee has lowered the COVID-19 risk level to green, or the “new normal,” County Judge Clay Jenkins announced Friday. The move to the lowest risk level comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reach lows the county hasn’t seen since the pandemic started. “It’s because of the people in North Texas and the way that you’ve shown …

A Texas Army National Guard Soldier assigned to Operation Lone Star in Eagle Pass went missing Friday during a mission along the border, the Texas Military Department announced. The soldier went missing along the Rio Grande, the department said in a news release. The identity of the soldier and details of the mission were not released. The department said that it was …

A Keller man who brought a beer can into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot as a “prop” for social media posts making light of the violent siege was sentenced on Friday to three months’ probation, court records show. Thomas Paul Conover, a 53-year-old vehicle dent repairman, posted online that he didn’t always storm the Capitol but that …

Several Dallas neighborhoods will likely be split up during city district boundary changes despite the pleas of residents, according to the city’s redistricting commission chair. The 15-member group overseeing the once-in-a-decade process is scheduled to vote Monday on their top three map proposals. But the commission on Friday heard from dozens of residents around the city urging them to keep their neighborhoods …

AUSTIN — Six years of demanding repeal of the “tampon tax” haven’t worked. So Texas activists appear poised to try a new tack — mounting a lawsuit to build pressure on lawmakers. Opponents of taxing menstrual-care products and a silk-stocking Houston law firm have said they’re prepared to go all the way to the state’s highest civil court, if necessary, …