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Ex-Fort Worth cop sentenced to nearly 12 years for manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson

A jury found Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter last week for the fatal shooting of Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, while she was babysitting her nephew in a family home.

Jury deliberates ex-Texas officer’s sentence in killing

A jury deciding the sentence for a former Texas police officer who was convicted of manslaughter last week for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window in her home in 2019 deliberated for over seven hours Monday.

Herschel Walker, running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, still gets tax break on $3 million Texas residence

Under Texas law, homeowners can claim a homestead exemption only on their primary residence. The GOP Senate candidate registered to vote in Georgia last year.

Texas’ execution of Stephen Barbee was prolonged while officials searched for a vein

Barbee, convicted in the 2005 murders of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her child, was unable to straighten his arms, which caused the delay. Courts allowed Barbee’s execution despite concerns from his lawyer that his disability would make the process “torture.”

Photos: Election Day 2022 in Texas

Texas Tribune photographers spread out all over the state to document a momentous midterm election.

Austin mayor’s race heading to a runoff, Dallas county judge wins reelection

In three key local elections, the Austin mayoral race will be decided in a runoff, Republican Tim O’Hare won the Tarrant County judge race and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins won reelection.

Can Democrats in Tarrant County replicate the success they had in 2018 and 2020?

Democrats hope population growth and Republican infighting will help them win in the state’s third-most-populous county — and finally break through in statewide races.

For Republicans, winning Hispanic voters will be a bigger fight than South Texas

Nearly half of Hispanic Texans live in the state’s five largest counties, a voting bloc Democrats cannot afford to lose as they struggle to compete in the state’s vast rural areas.

Tarrant County sends more kids to youth prisons than any other in Texas. Many blame this judge.

Critics say state District Judge Alex Kim is sending too many children to the state’s failing youth prison system. The longtime GOP politician points to a rise in teen gang violence.

Texas has banned more books than any other state, new report shows

Across the country, more books have been challenged and removed as religious and conservative groups target LGBTQ and race issues.

Two Republican foes of Dan Patrick support Democrat Mike Collier for lieutenant governor

Both Republicans have been at odds with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and neither of them are running for reelection.

Anne Frank adaptation, 40 more books pulled from Texas school district

A day before school began, Keller Independent School District announced a last-minute sweep of scores of books — including an adaptation of Anne Frank's diary and the Bible.

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Former Arlington police officer indicted in 2021 shooting

Former Arlington Police Officer Robert Phillips was indicted on a charge of murder.

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Texas court spares man who killed girl, 11, from execution

Texas' top criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a man convicted of killing an 11-year-old Fort Worth girl be removed from the state's death row. In a three-page opinion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled by a 6-3 vote that Juan Ramon Meza Segundo does not qualify for execution because of intellectual disability under a recent Supreme Court standard. The appeals court reformed his death sentence to life imprisonment with parole possible, the only alternative sentence for capital murder available at Segundo’s 2006 sentencing by a Tarrant County jury.

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Death penalty sought in Texas for man who admitted killing 5

The man confessed to killing five people, including three whose dismembered bodies were...

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Crystal Mason’s contentious illegal voting conviction must be reconsidered, criminal appeals court says

Mason said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot in 2016, but she was sentenced to five years in prison. Now, the Court of Criminal Appeals says an appellate court that affirmed her conviction must look again at the evidence of Mason’s intent.

Candidates backed by conservative PAC sweep Tarrant County school board elections

All but one of the 11 Tarrant County conservative school board candidates, who were backed this year by several high-profile donors and big-money PACs, defeated their opponents during Saturday’s local elections, according to unofficial results.

With piles of campaign cash, Christian activists make North Texas school board races a state battleground

In Tarrant County, conservative PACs animated about the teaching of race and sexuality are flooding school board races with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many voting locations throughout Texas did not open because of staff shortages

In some voting locations where a party’s appointed polling judge didn’t show up, election officials allowed the other party’s judge to operate both parties’ voting machines in an effort to keep the polling place running.

Live primary election updates: Polls close in most of Texas, but final results won’t be known for hours

Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to choose party nominees for the general election. Here’s the latest.

Federal judges won’t halt Texas primary in state Senate district being challenged for alleged discrimination

The redrawn state Senate District 10 splits Black and Hispanic voters in Tarrant County. A full trial on whether GOP lawmakers intentionally discriminated against voters of color is expected later this year.

Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting, retiring state GOP senator says in sworn court statement – Houston Public Media

A three-judge federal panel is hearing arguments in a lawsuit claiming that Texas Republicans violated the Voting Rights Act when they redrew state Senate District 10 in Tarrant County to lessen Black and Hispanic voting power.

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Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting, retiring state GOP senator says in sworn court statement

A three-judge federal panel is hearing arguments in a lawsuit claiming that Texas Republicans violated the Voting Rights Act when they redrew state Senate District 10 in Tarrant County to lessen Black and Hispanic voting power.

At-home COVID-19 tests are in scarce supply in Texas while public testing sites see a rise in demand

Most local officials insist they still have testing capacity at their public testing sites, but Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said demand has outpaced supply.

Arlington man gets 23 years for killing his wife who asked for divorce day after wedding

A 23-year-old woman was killed in May 2019 at an Arlington apartment just days after arriving in Texas from Jordan.

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Republican state Rep. Matt Krause drops out of attorney general’s race to run for Tarrant County district attorney

Krause had been among the primary challengers to Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose legal problems have made him a target for both parties next year.

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Man found guilty in slayings of his wife, baby in Texas[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

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This historically red Texas county diversified in the last decade. Now, Republicans are trying to divide up its voters of color.

Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, said the maps were drawn “race-blind.” But Democratic Sen. Beverly Powell, whose district would be turned into a majority-Republican district, said they’re an attempt to deny voters of color their voice in elections.

Child dies after being infected by brain-eating amoeba likely at splash pad in Texas, reports say

A child has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba which was detected at a splash pad he visited in Arlington, Texas.

Texas county officials call election audits an unnecessary partisan ploy while voicing confidence in 2020 results

Officials in some counties targeted by audits accuse Republican Texas leaders of pandering to conspiracy theorists and undermining faith in elections. They also say the secretary of state’s office hasn’t provided details on what the audits entail.

After Trump request, Texas auditing 2020 election results in four large counties

Joe Biden won three of the four, including one that usually goes for Republicans. There was no word on any link between Trump's request and the decision to conduct the audits.

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Texas Senate Opens Redistricting Debate With Proposed Map One Senator Labels ‘Intentional Discrimination’ – Houston Public Media

The first draft of the Senate map was authored by a Republican who chairs the Senate redistricting committee. It immediately drew fire from a Democratic member who said her district was being redrawn to dilute voting power of people of color.

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MAP: Track COVID-19 cases in Texas with county-by-county updates

Keep up with the number of coronavirus cases and deaths across the state with an interactive experience created by the Texas Health Department.

12-year-old River Oaks boy arrested in death of 6-year-old cousin near home, officials say

A ruling on how the 6-year-old River Oaks girl died is pending, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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Fort Worth teen punched his uncle 20 times over who was going to cook dinner, judge says

The mother of the 15-year-old also was punched in the back of the head during the fight and suffered an injury, according to a judge.

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New census data expected to reveal a more diverse America

The Census Bureau is due to release new data on the changing U.S. population.

Hospitals need help in COVID surge. Here’s one easy thing Gov. Greg Abbott should do

Public hospitals need the ability to require employees to get the vaccine, but the governor’s sweeping order doesn’t allow it. [Opinion]

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‘It’s getting worse by the hour.’ Texas is being tested by COVID-19, and we’re weak

Not only do we have to save ourselves and our families. We also have to protect our hospitals. [Opinion]

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Now the ‘Stop the Steal’ crowd is complaining about the Fort Worth city election

Now we know who sent those “verify my voting” postcards. Hint: They’re allies of General Flynn and Sidney Powell.

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Trump booster Herschel Walker skipped voting in 2016 when future president was on the ballot, records show

Herschel Walker did not cast a presidential vote in 2016 despite talking up the eventual winner, Donald Trump. And with the exception of 2020, Walker has not pulled the lever in any election since at least 2003, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

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Tarrant County voter fraud case ‘threatens the integrity’ of democracy, group says

Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison after she was convicted of voter fraud in what the ACLU called “one of the most important voting rights cases in modern Texas history.”

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Texas Republicans want audit of 2020 election in biggest counties, mostly won by Biden

The bill calls on the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker to appoint a third party to perform the audit.

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Suspect in home invasion robbery where family was zip-tied in Tarrant County arrested

The father and son were able to break free from their zip-ties and fight back against the intruders, leading to a shoot-out.

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Nearly 1,500 new COVID-19 cases reported in Tarrant County over the weekend

Health experts are warning that the county is experiencing a COVID-19 surge, paralleling the rise of the delta variant across the country.

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Another 5-year-old dies after being found in Tarrant County backyard swimming pool

Forty kids have drowned in Texas in 2021 as of July 9, according to a state agency.

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Census data help organizations aid Tarrant County communities hit by high poverty rates

What is the poverty data in your city? Census information is helping Tarrant County address large concerns.

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There’s a crime wave. Why are Tarrant police stopping some arrests for pot, theft?

Instead of a drug bust or theft leading to a shocking immediate consequence, defendants can stuff a citation into their pockets and plan dinner, talk host Mark Davis writes.

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Tarrant County sheriff joins Trump at border wall, focuses on how drug cartels impact DFW

At an event at the U.S.-Mexico border with Trump, Sheriff Bill Waybourn described what he believes should be the “number one enemy of American law enforcement, plain and simple.”

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60-year-old man dies from heat stroke as summer takes hold in Fort Worth neighborhoods

The man was found on East Lancaster Avenue in Fort Worth and died at a hospital.

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Teen accused in fatal shooting of 13-year-old girl in Arkansas captured in Arlington

The shooting left a 13-year-old girl dead in March.

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Two killed include Air Force Academy cadet after small plane crashes in Johnson County

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the fatal crash.

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Beto and Joe Biden won Tarrant County. Can Democrats ride that to county judge seat?

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court will have two seats in contention: county judge and precinct 4. Both can be an opportunity for Democrats.

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Federal COVID unemployment benefits end soon in Texas. Check out these job resources

Here are some resources for those affected by federal COVID-19 unemployment benefits coming to an end, including help for North Texas job-seekers.

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Thousands of Arlington’s schoolchildren are exposed to fracking fumes, report warns

More than 30,000 Arlington kids go to school near a drilling site, and thousands more toddlers and infants go to daycare within a half-mile of one, according to new data.

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Tarrant County deputies, officials clash with protesters over ICE enforcement in jails

The dispute, which occurred at Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting, caused deputies to escort protesters out and prompted Judge Glen Whitley to ask for citations.

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Longtime Tarrant County Commissioner J.D. Johnson says he will not seek reelection

Johnson has served on the Commissioners Court since 1987 and will finish his term with 36 years of leading Precinct 4, which covers west Fort Worth and northwest Tarrant County.

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Programs allow Tarrant County residents to get assistance for funeral, burial costs

Burial and cremation assistance available to certain Tarrant County residents while funeral costs increase across the country.

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Fort Worth area lawmakers to meet with VP Kamala Harris after killing election bill

Rep. Chris Turner, Rep. Nicole Collier and Sen. Beverly Powell are among the Texas Democrats to meet with Harris.

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Outgoing Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price announces bid for Tarrant County judge seat

Her intent to runs comes days after current County Judge Glen Whitley announced he would not seek reelection in 2022. Whitley has been in the seat since 2007 and on the Commissioners Court since 1997.

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Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price announces run for Tarrant County judge

One of the last remaining Republican mayors of a big city is jumping back into the political arena after not seeking reelection.

How Tarrant County Judge Whitley’s attention to detail helped manage growth, COVID

The four-term Republican wasn’t afraid to buck his own party, especially on property taxes.

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18-year-old shot to death in south Tarrant County. One suspect faces murder charge

Deputies responded to a shooting call Saturday night in south Tarrant County.

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Mattie Parker declares victory in Fort Worth mayoral runoff

Parker, the former chief of staff to retiring Mayor Betsy Price, declared victory in the runoff against Deborah Peoples, who recently stepped down as chair of the Tarrant County Democratic Party.

Live updates: Early results show Parker ahead of Peoples in race for Fort Worth mayor

Mattie Parker took an early lead over Deborah Peoples in the race for Fort Worth mayor.

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H-E-B is expanding in Dallas-Fort Worth, but Tarrant County will still be waiting

After their second DFW groundbreaking in as many days, H-E-B officials remained coy about when Tarrant County residents might see the Texas-based grocery chain move in their communities.

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Flash flood watch issued for Tarrant County as storms could drop 5 inches of rain

Isolated storms in North Texas could produce as much as five inches of rain.

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Here’s what we’re doing to reach out to Tarrant residents hesitant to get COVID vaccine

Listening and answering their concerns is crucial, a leader with the UNT Health Science Center writes.

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More rain in Dallas-Fort Worth forecast leads to flood warnings, high water rescue calls

The Fort Worth Fire Department rescued a woman who was swept away after getting out of her stalled car Monday night.

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Polling places for urban voters of color would be cut under Texas Senate's version of voting bill being negotiated with House

Voters in some urban, Democratic areas of Harris and Tarrant counties would see a drastic drop in polling places under the Senate version of Senate Bill 7, a Texas Tribune analysis shows.

For The First Time In More Than 40 Years, Media Were Not Allowed To Witness A Texas Execution – Houston Public Media

On Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.

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Sheriff's Office, U.S. Marshals arrest wanted couple

County and federal authorities arrested two people accused of sexual offenses.

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Tarrant County Democrats on conference committee for voter restriction bill

The Senate opted not to accept the House changes to Senate Bill 7, prompting the formation of a conference committee to iron out the differences.

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As Texas Prepares To Execute Quintin Jones For Murdering His Great-Aunt, His Relatives Hope For Last-Minute Reprieve – Houston Public Media

Jones was sentenced to death in 2001 in Tarrant County after he fatally beat his great-aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, with a baseball bat. But two relatives say they’ve forgiven him and want his sentence commuted to life in prison.

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Millions in stimulus dollars headed to North Texas. How will your leaders use them?

The federal funds are part of $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden in March.

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Voter restriction bills could cost Texas and Tarrant County billions, report says

Big conventions, events and general tourism would take a hit in Texas as companies and people don’t like to do business in states that have laws that seem discriminatory.

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Tarrant County, Arlington use new outreach to help with evictions. How to get help

Tarrant County may even start advertising on TikTok

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Tarrant County asks businesses, organizations to apply for pop-up COVID vaccine clinics

The decision to focus on pop-up and mobile clinics was motivated by the low demand for large vaccine sites, officials said.

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Fraud alert! Someone in Texas could be filing for unemployment benefits with your data

Officials with the Texas Workforce Commission report an increase in false claims.

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Texas mayoral races, Austin homeless measure among key issues on Saturday ballots. Here’s what you need to know.

Local elections are happening across Texas on Saturday, some of which have drawn statewide — and even national — attention. Here are the four that we are watching most closely, plus a few other contests to keep in mind.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will review Crystal Mason’s controversial illegal voting conviction

But Tarrant County prosecutors pressed forward with charges, arguing Mason’s case came down to intent. The all-Republican court’s decision to review Mason’s case is notable. The Court of Criminal Appeals isn’t required to review non-death penalty convictions, and it rarely grants requests to do so. Mason turned to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals late last year after a state appeals court panel affirmed the trial court’s judgement. In her petition to the court, Mason’s lawyers argued the appeals court erred in upholding her conviction because the state’s illegal voting statute requires a person to know they are ineligible to vote and Mason did not.

Tarrant County sees record COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations as Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price tests positive

Medical Assistants with Mi Doctor operate a testing clinic at the La Gran Plaza in Fort Worth. Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas TribuneTarrant County reported a pandemic high of more than 2100 new cases and nearly 800 hospitalizations Wednesday, the same day Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price tested positive for COVID-19. Price’s husband had tested positive for the virus just hours earlier. Public health officials are alarmed at the trends. On Tuesday, Vinny Taneja, the county’s public health director, issued a “public health warning” asking residents to help flatten the curve.

Texas approaches 7,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations amid spike

Almost 7,000 COVID-19 patients were in Texas hospitals Thursday, the most in almost three months, as infections of the coronavirus that causes the disease continue statewide, nationwide and worldwide. The 6,925 hospitalizations are the most Texas has counted since Aug. 12, according to reports by the Texas Department of State Health Services. However, state figures appear to be lagging indicators of the present COVID-19 outbreak in Texas when compared with statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The state coronavirus count for the pandemic that began in March was 993,841, while the Johns Hopkins count for Texas topped 1 million earlier this week. Overall, 62,525 new coronavirus infections and 698 new COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Texas in this past week alone, according to Johns Hopkins statistics.

Democrats didn’t get a blue wave, but some of the fastest-growing suburbs in Texas are still moving to the left

Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas TribuneAlthough they didn’t get the blue wave they expected, Democrats narrowed the gap with Republicans in five of the most competitive and populous suburban counties in Texas. Meanwhile, Democrats won over many voters like 28-year-old Rachel Copeland, who said she voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016. Not all suburban counties became as competitive as Tarrant. “I think we need to rethink how we talk about the blue wave,” said Brandon Rottinghaus, political science professor at the University of Houston. It’s certainly changing, we saw it with how close Beto came in 2016, and the demographics have changed drastically,” Cross said.

Texas 2020 elections: Voters deciding a bevy of heated races could shatter state's turnout record

More than 9.7 million Texans cast ballots during early voting. Nearly 127,000 Harris County voters cast drive-thru ballots during the early voting period at 10 polling sites across the county, a safer option for some voters during the coronavirus pandemic. A federal judge earlier Monday denied that group's attempt to have the drive-thru ballots cast during early voting tossed out, but continued to file appellate challenges over drive-thru voting late Monday. At least 9,718,648 voters cast early ballots, according to preliminary final numbers released Sunday by the Texas secretary of state. Early voting, which Gov.

Tarrant County faces delayed counts for its tightest races due to staffing shortages

In the nearby Tarrant County, county officials worry there could be delayed counts due to staffing shortages. Tarrant County officials are warning that coronavirus-related staffing shortages mean elections workers are unlikely to finish counting mail-in ballots on Tuesday night, potentially leaving the county’s tightest races undecided until later this week. Tarrant County, the largest Republican-controlled county in the state, is home to a number of state legislative races and at least one congressional race that are expected to be tight. While both parties and the county government say they hope winners will be declared Tuesday night, Whitley was more cautious. Greg Abbott on Monday took notice of the staffing concerns and called on Tarrant County Republicans to volunteer as poll watchers and poll workers.

Kamala Harris visits Houston during Texas campaign swing

Kamala Harris’ trip to Texas on Friday will include three stops across the state, including in the Rio Grande Valley, according to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign. Fort Worth’s Tarrant County was the state’s most populous county that Republican President Donald Trump won in 2016. Harris will be the highest-profile Biden surrogate to come to Texas in the general election yet, following visits in recent weeks by Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, and Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff. Harris’ visit is not the only notable activity by the Biden campaign this week in Texas. Sign up for The Brief, the Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.

Texas has a record number of new voters. Where they are shows how the state has become more competitive.

But it’s also thanks to a surge of 1.8 million new registered voters since the 2016 election. But looking at where the new registered voters are can help us understand how the balance of voting power is subtly shifting in the state. Since 2016, they saw an increase of 630,796 registered voters, according to data collected by the Texas Secretary of State. These counties have had huge turnout and huge increases in registered voters this year, adding 533,098 new voters since 2016. They have gained 522,972 registered voters in total, and show no sign of turning blue.

Ex-Texas officer’s trial set for next year in woman’s death

FORT WORTH, Texas – A judge in Texas has tentatively set an August trial date for a white former police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman who was fatally shot through a window. Judge David Hagerman on Tuesday said the scheduling may be fluid but that the case of former Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean “needs to be tried next year,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Dean resigned after he was charged with murder in the Oct. 12, 2019, shooting death of Jefferson. Jefferson had been babysitting her 8-year-old nephew at her mother's home when a neighbor called a non-emergency police line to report that a door was ajar. At Tuesday’s pretrial proceedings, Hagerman said he would likely consider a motion to change the venue of the trial from Tarrant County, which is home to Fort Worth.

2 North Texas counties to remove Confederate monuments

FORT WORTH, Texas Officials in two North Texas counties voted Tuesday to remove Confederate monuments from their courthouse grounds. Commissioners of Tarrant and Denton counties voted Tuesday to remove the monuments. The Tarrant County monument had been erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1953. The Denton County monument was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1918. Both counties said their monuments would be placed in storage until alternate sites could be found.

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