1:04 PM on Mar 10, 2020 CDTA 22-year-old Guatemalan asylum-seeker died in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a downtown Fort Worth hospital.Maria Celeste Ochoa Yoc de Ramirez was pronounced dead on Sunday, ICE said in a news release late Monday.The cause of death, ICE said, was “autoimmune hepatitis, complicated by septic shock and acute liver failure.”This is the eighth death of an immigrant in ICE custody this fiscal year. It comes as scrutiny grows over the medical care detained immigrants receive in ICE custody.But ICE said in its statement, “fatalities in ICE...…1:04 PM on Mar 10, 2020 CDTA 22-year-old Guatemalan asylum-seeker died in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a downtown Fort Worth hospital.Maria Celeste Ochoa Yoc de Ramirez was pronounced dead on Sunday, ICE said in a news release late Monday.The cause of death, ICE said, was “autoimmune hepatitis, complicated by septic shock and acute liver failure.”This is the eighth death of an immigrant in ICE custody this fiscal year. It comes as scrutiny grows over the medical care detained immigrants receive in ICE custody.But ICE said in its statement, “fatalities in ICE...WW…

2:23 PM on May 1, 2020 CDT — Updated at 8:30 PM on May 1, 2020 CDTUpdated at 8:30 p.m.: Revised throughout to include additional details.North Texans cautiously emerged from their homes Friday, seeking a semblance of normalcy at restaurants, golf courses — even the gun range — as Texas allowed its first wave of businesses to reopen after they were shuttered to slow the spread of the coronavirus.In Dallas, shoppers and diners treaded carefully after more than a month under stay-at-home orders. Business owners and workers saw quiet days for their shops as many people stayed home. Some...…2:23 PM on May 1, 2020 CDT — Updated at 8:30 PM on May 1, 2020 CDTUpdated at 8:30 p.m.: Revised throughout to include additional details.North Texans cautiously emerged from their homes Friday, seeking a semblance of normalcy at restaurants, golf courses — even the gun range — as Texas allowed its first wave of businesses to reopen after they were shuttered to slow the spread of the coronavirus.In Dallas, shoppers and diners treaded carefully after more than a month under stay-at-home orders. Business owners and workers saw quiet days for their shops as many people stayed home. Some...WW…

5:01 PM on Jun 30, 2020 CDTIn a bid to persuade courts to declare Texas' anti-rioting law unconstitutional, three protesters sued the city of Dallas on Tuesday saying police erroneously used riot charges and another offense to jail them, violating their free-speech rights.Dallas residents Lily Godinez, Yolanda McGriff and Megan Nordyke were featured in a Dallas Morning News story that May 30 during protests over George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis officer. Hours after the June 12 story was published, Dallas police said they were dropping the charges.The lawsuit, filed in...…5:01 PM on Jun 30, 2020 CDTIn a bid to persuade courts to declare Texas' anti-rioting law unconstitutional, three protesters sued the city of Dallas on Tuesday saying police erroneously used riot charges and another offense to jail them, violating their free-speech rights.Dallas residents Lily Godinez, Yolanda McGriff and Megan Nordyke were featured in a Dallas Morning News story that May 30 during protests over George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis officer. Hours after the June 12 story was published, Dallas police said they were dropping the charges.The lawsuit, filed in...WW…

7:00 PM on Apr 16, 2020 CDTChristina Segundo is angry. She’s a U.S. citizen, raising four children in Fort Worth with her husband. Friends around her are receiving $1,200 or more under the government’s colossal stimulus effort.But Segundo gets nothing. She and her immigrant husband file taxes jointly and he uses a federal ITIN, an individual taxpayer identification number. Such couples have been surgically excluded from help.Millions of U.S. citizens won’t get federal stimulus assistance under the $2 trillion pandemic aid package because there are also unauthorized immigrants in their...…7:00 PM on Apr 16, 2020 CDTChristina Segundo is angry. She’s a U.S. citizen, raising four children in Fort Worth with her husband. Friends around her are receiving $1,200 or more under the government’s colossal stimulus effort.But Segundo gets nothing. She and her immigrant husband file taxes jointly and he uses a federal ITIN, an individual taxpayer identification number. Such couples have been surgically excluded from help.Millions of U.S. citizens won’t get federal stimulus assistance under the $2 trillion pandemic aid package because there are also unauthorized immigrants in their...WW…