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Dallas City Council members took turns saying goodbye to five colleagues Wednesday. It was their last meeting.  The new, 2013 Council will be sworn-in Monday.

The general manager for the Tarrant Regional Water District  is defending the multi-million dollar cost of its legal battle waged over Oklahoma water.

Jim Oliver says the district spent more than $6 million public dollars for the right to cross into Oklahoma to pump out water Tarrant thought it should have under a four-state state agreement called the Red River Compact.  The final tally for how much public money was spent on the lawsuit was not available. 

There’s a brand new poem to add to Juneteenth celebrations this year. It’s a previously unknown work by the country’s first published black writer, Jupiter Hammon. UT Arlington grad student Julie McCown, uncovered the handwritten poem while looking for a specific piece of Hammon’s work. The piece, called “An Essay on Slavery," was buried in documents at the Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library in Connecticut.