The top local stories this morning from KERA News:
Opening statements are expected to begin this morning in the federal corruption trial against Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
They were supposed to begin Thursday of last week. But one of the jurors became ill and needed to tend to her ill mother. The reading of the federal indictment – more than 100 pages – also took more than four hours.
Prosecutors say the Dallas County Commissioner accepted nearly a million dollars in bribes in exchange for insider information and his vote on certain contracts. Price has pleaded not guilty.
Other stories this morning:
- Nearly 200 storm chasers paid tribute yesterday to the late actor Bill Paxton by spelling out his initials with GPS coordinates in the heart of Tornado Alley. The Fort Worth native had roles in Hollywood hits such as Twister, The Terminator, Weird Science, and Apollo 13.
- Less women die from cervical cancer each year than other gynecological cancers. But a recent study of a dozen states over ten years found experts may have underestimated the risk of dying from the disease.
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