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Yes, Dallas Struggles With Poverty – But More So, Suburban North Texas

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DART is expanding to serve more pockets of North Texas. But will it help assuage poverty?

By Lyndsay Knecht

Five stories that have North Texas talking: New findings about living poor in suburbia, the economy of new abortion laws, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and more.

1:00 am

Mon May 20, 2013

Sex Superbug: Concerns About Drug Resistant Gonorrhea

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By Sam Baker

Recent reports of a so-called "sex superbug" - a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea - reaching the U.S. turned out to be false. The H041 strain hasn’t been detected since a case in Japan several years ago. But even though gonorrhea can be cured with antibiotics, the health community remains concerned about the threat of drug-resistant strains of the sexually transmitted disease. Dr. Cedric Spak, with North Texas Infectious Diseases Consultants and Baylor Medical Center Dallas, explains why in this week’s edition of Vital Signs.

7:13 pm

Fri May 17, 2013

State Budget Deal Adds Money For Schools, Water-What About Roads?

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By Shelley Kofler

The two-year state budget deal that appears to be coming together in Austin would restore $3.93 billion of the $5.4 billion in public education money cut last session.

It would also take $2 billion in Rainy Day savings money to create a loan fund to build water projects.

It’s unclear whether another proposed loan fund of up to $2.7 billion to build new roads will be part of the new budget.

5:44 pm

Fri May 17, 2013

Child Dies After Being Left In Car At Dallas School

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The high temperature Friday was near 90 degrees.

By BJ Austin

Grief counselors will be on campus at Guzick Elementary in Pleasant Grove on Monday after a child was found left in a car in the school parking lot Friday afternoon.

5:30 pm

Fri May 17, 2013

Residents of Rancho Brazos To Return To Tornado Ravaged Neighborhood Saturday

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An American flag flies from one of the trees in Rancho Brazos, the Granbury neighborhood decimated by a tornado Wednesday night. Winds of up to 200 mph also stripped trees of their leaves.

By BJ Austin

Residents of Rancho Brazos near Granbury will return to the neighborhood Saturday for the first time after Wednesday night’s devastating tornado.

2:05 pm

Fri May 17, 2013

DISD Students Walk Out Over New Principal Policy

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Students of South Dallas Madison High School gathered to show support for their Principal, who may be fired as a result of a new district-wide policy.

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Madison High Student Monicea Barnes (right) with fellow students out to support the school's Principal, Marian Willard.

By Shelley Kofler and Lauren Silverman

Dozens of Madison High School students in South Dallas walked out of class today.

They joined some parents in protesting the possible firing of their principal, Marian Willard.

They’re concerned Willard is among Dallas principals who would lose her job under Superintendent Mile Miles’ new performance plan for campus administrators.

“We don’t want her to leave. She is a great principal. She came to this school and turned it around when no one else could,” said student Monicea Barnes as she waved a sign that said “save our principal”

10:30 am

Fri May 17, 2013

Habitat Homes Among Those Lost In Granbury

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Volunteers for Hood County Habitat for Humanity work on a home in Granbury just two months ago.

By Lyndsay Knecht

Five stories that have North Texas talking: introducing the Dallas Maritime Museum (?), an ideal weekend in the Hill Country, word nerd paradise and more.