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Autumn Leaves Senior Living Community Accuses Former Employee of Stealing From Residents

By April Towery / March 25, 2024 /

The business office manager of an East Dallas senior living community is on unpaid leave after being accused of bilking residents out of more than $67,800.  It doesn’t appear that the woman has been fired yet, pending the results of a police investigation and forensic audit, but she’s referred to as a “former employee” in…

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Two Months After Hack, Dallas Approves $4M Deal to Protect Against Future Cyber Attacks

By April Towery / July 12, 2023 /
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If you’d just started using City of Dallas online dashboards last week, you might not even know the ninth-largest city in the U.S. was hacked by cyberterrorists in May.  The City Council voted June 28 to spend nearly $4 million with Houston-based Netsync Network Solutions to install and maintain a “threat and anomaly detection system”…

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District 12 Has Lowest Crime Rate in Dallas, But is Plagued by Traffic Accidents

By April Towery / June 5, 2023 /

Dallas City Council District 12 in far North Dallas has some unique characteristics. It’s the only district with residents who live outside Dallas County. It has the second-most affordable housing units, and it’s tied for the highest diversity scores in racial and ethnic population makeup. It also has the fewest crime incidents of any council…

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Dallas Police: Teen Arrested in May 19 Preston Center West Shooting Was Out On Bond

By April Towery / May 31, 2023 /

A 17-year-old man was arrested last week in the shooting death of a Dallas security guard at a Preston Center West parking garage on May 19. Antwon Osborne, 17, was taken into custody on May 23 in Nevada and is awaiting extradition, authorities said.  Detective Jonequia Acrond, who is handling the case for the Dallas…

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West Dallas’ District 6 Sees Minimal Crime Spike, Neighborhoods Embrace More Housing

By April Towery / May 22, 2023 /

Dallas City Council District 6 has the second-highest crime rate among Dallas’ 14 districts, runner-up only to District 2’s Deep Ellum and Old East Dallas. Councilman Omar Narvaez, first elected in 2017, has deep family roots of more than 90 years in the area that covers Ledbetter, La Loma, and Bachman Lake. He rents his…

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