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The Dallas Police Department announced it would cease using more than 300 of its Flock cameras a day before council was to consider an amendment to cancel Flock funding. -
Dallas-area citizens of Hispanic heritage now always carry passports and legal documents to avoid wrongful detainment since the Trump administration increased immigration and deportation enforcement efforts, some say. -
Bexar County staff corrects the cost of military widows' tax exemption at a Commissioners Court meeting, in response to San Antonio Report story. -
Though CenterPoint is reporting few outages, Entergy, which services the region from The Woodlands to Beaumont, reported more than 60,000 customers were without power as of Tuesday night. -
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