Richardson ISD has named Jessica Bradshaw of Spring Creek Elementary and Kelly Mountjoy of Parkhill Junior High as the district’s counselors of the year. “School counselors impact all students’ lives by working with them not just on social and emotional support, but through academic motivation and planning and post-secondary planning,” Richardson ISD’s counseling director Summer Martin said in a prepared statement. “These are all areas that help students lead meaningful and productive lives.” Richardson ISD began its “Leader of the Heart” counselor of the year award in 2019. The recognition coincides with National School Counseling Week. In addition to the…
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Mesquite is suing the owners of an apartment complex that has violated city building codes and put its residents and their health at risk, according to the lawsuit filed Monday. Tenants at Hillcrest Apartments have complained for years about a litany of problems, including mold, cockroach infestations and the lack of heat and air conditioning. Many said they didn’t have heat during this month’s winter storm, when temperatures in Mesquite plummeted as low as 18 degrees. “For years, residents of the complex, many receiving federal rental assistance, have experienced a lack of proper heat during winter months, air conditioning in summer months,…
A large grass fire in Wise County burned through an estimated 100 acres and at least one unoccupied building Monday afternoon and into the evening, officials said. Fire crews were working on the fire in the 600 block of County Road 4698, southwest of Boyd, according to the Wise County Messenger. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that some homes in Parker County were evacuated while fire crews battled flames, but Parker County Fire Marshal Sean Hughes told the newspaper that evacuations had stopped around 5 p.m. By 8 p.m., the Texas A&M Forest Service said the blaze had consumed about 100 acres and…
An academic civil liberties group sued Tarleton State University on Thursday to obtain public records that it says were improperly withheld under public information laws. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit focused on protecting free speech rights on college campuses, is seeking records about the university’s investigation of a professor accused of “highly inappropriate behavior” to understand whether the administration censored and took over editorial control of a student publication, the Texan News Service. The school is part of the Texas A&M University System. “Tarleton covered up its records on a professor’s ‘inappropriate behavior’ by demanding that a…
Mild and breezy weather will be the rule across North Texas on Tuesday. Highs will be around 70 with a gusty south wind. Some much-needed rain is in the forecast late Wednesday into Wednesday night. Showers and thunderstorms are likely late Wednesday night. It’s possible that a few storms could contain strong winds and hail. Expected rain totals are likely to be between 0.25-0.50.” Some heavier totals are possible to the northeast. Most of the rain will exit by early Thursday morning as cooler air moves in. There will be a warming trend with sunshine expected for the weekend. Latest…
The body of a man who’d been shot multiple times was found Monday morning in southeast Oak Cliff, Dallas police said. Officers found the body while responding to a shooting call in the 5000 block of Wadsworth Drive, near Loop 12 and Interstate 45, shortly after 8 a.m. Police said the man may have been shot Sunday night. His identity hasn’t been determined. No other details were available. Anyone with information may contact Detective Jake Morgan at 214-671-3630 or at jake.morgan@dallascityhall.com and refer to case No. 027242-2022. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest and…
You haven’t fixed it, so we will. That’s the message Mayor Eric Johnson sent Monday morning to City Manager T.C. Broadnax about the mess that the city’s construction-permitting office has become — an operation so broken that it increasingly threatens Dallas’ economic future. In his own effort to get the job done, Johnson has appointed City Council member Paula Blackmon to get to the bottom of what’s wrong in the development services department. Responsibility for this office, like all the day-to-day operations in the city, squarely rests with Broadnax. Yet for almost two years, he and his team have been…
A Dallas police officer, a reserve officer and a civilian employee with the department have been indicted on charges of promoting a pyramid promotional scheme, according to court records. A Dallas County grand jury handed up the indictments last week for Dallas police Officer Reginald Jones, Reserve Officer Brad Deason and civilian employee Sonja Davis. It was unclear whether Deason and Davis had attorneys. Chris Knox, Jones’ attorney, said in a prepared statement “this is an unfortunate case, and one where the officers charged did not do anything different than thousands of other people did during the pandemic.” Reginald Jones(DeSoto…
One person was injured Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in Far North Dallas, Dallas Fire-Rescue said. Units were dispatched about 2 p.m. to a fire at an apartment complex in the 2500 block of Players Court, near Frankford Road and the Bush Turnpike. When first responders arrived, they found a two-story apartment building fully engulfed in flames, officials said. The building suffered extensive fire damage, including a partial roof collapse, officials said. Investigators said all 16 units in the building were damaged and at least 40 residents were displaced. One resident was taken to a hospital for…
AUSTIN — Texas is in danger of simply slapping a Band-Aid on “the ongoing tragedy” of kids sleeping in Child Protective Services offices and won’t cure root causes unless it acts with more urgency and taps some of the state’s huge budget surplus for improvements to foster and kinship care, two lawyers for plaintiff children in a long-running lawsuit said Monday. Reacting to a new filing by two state agencies in U.S. District Court in Corpus Christi, plaintiffs’ lawyers Marcia Robinson Lowry and Paul Yetter labeled the state’s response to an expert panel’s recommendations deficient. In a news release, the…
