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<div class="article news first default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20151002-immigration_overload_38998775.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/IMMIGRATION_OVERLOAD_38998775.JPG" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2461407-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="" title="A U.S. Border Patrol agent keeps watch in Roma, Texas, across the Rio Grande River from Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Mexico." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20151002-texas-border-cameras-show-smuggling-interdiction-decline-amid-manpower-surge.ece';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20151002-texas-border-cameras-show-smuggling-interdiction-decline-amid-manpower-surge.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2461401-TITLE viziwyg-section-7609"> Texas border cameras show smuggling interdiction decline amid manpower surge </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2461401-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7609">With more resources, fewer apprehensions per detection have been recorded, but DPS officials say the comparison isn’t valid.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20151001-trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_10_bx196_6efa_9.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_10_BX196_6EFA_9.jpg" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2459829-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="Glenn Hegar, candidate for state comptroller, speaks at the Denton County Republican Party's annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport, on Feb. 1, 2014. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)" title="Glenn Hegar, candidate for state comptroller, speaks at the Denton County Republican Party's annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport, on Feb. 1, 2014. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)" width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/hegar-texas-again-aces-the-test-on-wall-street.html/';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/hegar-texas-again-aces-the-test-on-wall-street.html/" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459828-TITLE viziwyg-section-7436"> State's long-term bonds score highest Wall Street ratings, Texas comptroller announces </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459828-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7436">AUSTIN - Texas again has received the highest possible marks from Wall Street credit rating agencies, Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced Thursday.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20151001-eric-johnson.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/Eric+Johnson" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2459795-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, left, and State Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, converse during the session of the Texas House of Representatives, 83rd Legislative Session, in Austin on Wednesday, January 9, 2013." title="State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, left, and State Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, converse during the session of the Texas House of Representatives, 83rd Legislative Session, in Austin on Wednesday, January 9, 2013." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/new-state-of-texas-website-for-recording-shootings-by-cops-now-live.html/';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/new-state-of-texas-website-for-recording-shootings-by-cops-now-live.html/" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459793-TITLE viziwyg-section-7457"> Texas AG's website that documents shootings by police officers is live </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459793-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7457">The website currently has four reports, including one from Balch Springs. The posted reports are single-page forms filled out and posted in PDF form.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150930-guns_on_campus.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/Guns_on_Campus" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2459187-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-7609 " alt="" title="Professor Ann Cvetkovich waited to speak during a public forum Wednesday at the University of Texas as a committee studies how to implement campus carry." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150930-majority-at-ut-campus-carry-forum-say-keep-guns-out-of-classroom.ece';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150930-majority-at-ut-campus-carry-forum-say-keep-guns-out-of-classroom.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459188-TITLE viziwyg-section-7609"> Majority at UT campus carry forum say: Keep guns out of classroom </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459188-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7609">Four-year universities across the state are trying to determine how they’ll implement the new law allowing licensed Texans to bring concealed handguns into campus buildings.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150930-a-section.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/A+Section" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2457823-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="Tim Timmons holds a glass pipe filled with marijuana prior to smoking it at his Garland home October 26, 2010. Timmons, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has offered to go before the Texas legislature to show lawmakers what a toke looks like" title="Tim Timmons holds a glass pipe filled with marijuana prior to smoking it at his Garland home October 26, 2010." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/poll-texans-coming-around-to-pot-gay-marriage-and-still-deeply-in-love-with-football.html/';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/poll-texans-coming-around-to-pot-gay-marriage-and-still-deeply-in-love-with-football.html/" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2457789-TITLE viziwyg-section-7436"> Poll: Texans coming around to pot, gay marriage and still deeply in love with football </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2457789-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7436">Texans' views are softening on controversial social topics like gay marriage and marijuana usage, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Texas Lyceum.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150825-trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_08_bx037_016d_91.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_08_BX037_016D_91.jpg" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2408040-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="An $11 million state cancer-treatment commercialization grant to a Dallas biotechnology firm, Peloton Therapeutics, housed in this building at UT Southwestern, spawned a contracting-deception indictment against Jerald "Jerry" Cobbs. He formerly" title="An $11 million state cancer-treatment commercialization grant to a Dallas biotechnology firm, Peloton Therapeutics, housed in this building at UT Southwestern, spawned a contracting-deception indictment against Jerald "Jerry" Cobbs." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150925-texas-cancer-research-agency-survived-a-scandal.-now-it-hopes-to-prove-it-s-working.ece';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150925-texas-cancer-research-agency-survived-a-scandal.-now-it-hopes-to-prove-it-s-working.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2450912-TITLE viziwyg-section-7609"> Texas' cancer-research agency survived a scandal. Now, it hopes to prove it's working </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2450912-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7609">The Cancer Research and Prevention Institute of Texas next has to persuade some lawmakers that research and commercial efforts are worth funding.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150926-carrick_0000pro_45846209.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/CARRICK_0000PRO_45846209.JPG" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2453176-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="" title="Autumn Hampton suffered a serious brain injury when she fell from her horse and spent months in a coma. She was treated at the Carrick Brain Centers in September 2014." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/carrick/';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/carrick/" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2453281-TITLE viziwyg-section-7437"> In name of PTSD research, Texas taxpayers paid $2.2M to spin vets in special chair </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2453281-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7437">Experts say there was no reason to think that spinning traumatized combat veterans upside down could help them — and every reason to think it wouldn't.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150928-pregnant-woman-killed.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/pregnant+woman+killed.jpg" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2455585-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="" title="" width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150928-houston-area-boy-charged-in-death-of-his-pregnant-mother.ece';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150928-houston-area-boy-charged-in-death-of-his-pregnant-mother.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2455380-TITLE viziwyg-section-7609"> Houston-area boy charged in death of his pregnant mother </a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150925-trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_09_ax243_4d72_9.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_09_AX243_4D72_9.jpg" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2451327-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="Jacob Casablanca (left) works with speech therapist Elizabeth Price at his home Monday, July 27, 2015 in Hurst, Texas. Jacob, 7, is autistic and suffers from speech delays. He receives weekly therapy at his home, part of a state program that cou" title="Jacob Casablanca (left) works with speech therapist Elizabeth Price at his home Monday, July 27, 2015 in Hurst, Texas. Jacob, 7, is autistic and suffers from speech delays." width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150925-judge-blocks-medicaid-cuts-for-therapists-serving-disabled-kids-poor-seniors.ece';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150925-judge-blocks-medicaid-cuts-for-therapists-serving-disabled-kids-poor-seniors.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2451914-TITLE viziwyg-section-7609"> Judge blocks Medicaid cuts for therapists serving disabled kids, poor seniors </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2451914-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7609">A Travis County district judge says cutting reimbursement rates would likely put some Medicaid providers out of business.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article news default "> <div class="text"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150827-crimeblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_08_texaslicense.png.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/crimeblog.dallasnews.com_files_2015_08_TexasLicense.png" class="left inpage-cropable inpage-image-2410694-ALTERNATES-w140 inpage-dim-140-92 viziwyg-section-4 " alt="" title="" width="140" height="92" onclick="location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/texas-dps-employee-who-sold-drivers-licenses-to-unauthorized-immigrants-gets-prison-time.html/';"/> <div class="textDetailWithImage"> <h3 class="h6 tf1f2 sbs"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/texas-dps-employee-who-sold-drivers-licenses-to-unauthorized-immigrants-gets-prison-time.html/" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2410692-TITLE viziwyg-section-7457"> Former Texas DPS employee who sold driver's licenses to unauthorized immigrants gets prison time </a> </h3> <p class="summary"> <span class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2410692-LEADTEXT viziwyg-section-7457">A former Texas Department of Public Safety employee who sold driver's licenses to more than two-dozen unauthorized immigrants was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in federal prison.</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="widget code html widget-editable viziwyg-section-4 inpage-widget-331538 codeWidgetLinks"> <p style="margin-top:10px;"><a href="headlines/" style="font-weight:bold;">State Stories</a></p> </div> <div class="x300x300 row"> <div class="column-1"> <div class="tf1f3 r5 sbd text-capitalize simple-separator-top"> <a class="link-title" href="/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/">state politics</a> </div> <div class="widget list detailed "> <div class="content"> <div class="article first simple-separator"> <h3 class="h7 tf1f2 sbn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/abbott-asks-feds-to-boost-border-security-after-increase-in-crossings.html/" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2457978-TITLE viziwyg-section-7436"> Abbott asks feds to boost border security after increase in crossings </a> </h3> </div> <div class="article simple-separator"> <h3 class="h7 tf1f2 sbn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20150930-wendy-davis-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459160-TITLE viziwyg-section-7447"> Wendy Davis endorses Hillary Clinton for president </a> </h3> </div> <div class="article "> <h3 class="h7 tf1f2 sbn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151003145646/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150930-majority-at-ut-campus-carry-forum-say-keep-guns-out-of-classroom.ece" class="viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2459188-TITLE 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