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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
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Denton, Texas
Group seeks control of subdivision
Thistle Hill homeowners
go to trial against
property management
They [homeowners] don't have a say. They want
to be assured that their money is spent only
for legitimate purposes. ”
— Attorney Tammy Cole
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc. com
Opening arguments began Monday
in a long-running battle between
homeowners in a southern Denton
neighborhood and its property manag-
er and developer, Deborah Johnson-
Stafford.
Homeowners in Thistle Hill Estates
sued in 2012 and again in 2013 to get
control of the small subdivision that
Johnson-Stalford manages. Most of the
34 homes were built in the early 2000s
and are valued at about $400,000 or
more.
Attorney Tammy Cole told the 11-
member jury the homeowners needed
the jury’s help to take their neighbor-
hood back.
“They don’t have a say,” Cole said.
“They want to be assured that their
money is spent only for legitimate pur-
man, three-woman jury.
The defendant’s attorney, Grace
Weatherly, told the jury the home-
owners knew — or should have known,
if they read their deed restrictions — the
subdivision didn’t have a homeowners
association. Instead, the subdivision
was set up with a different kind of prop-
erty management that left Johnson-
Stafford in charge.
‘What goes to this is for the benefit of
the property itself, not the homeowners,”
poses.
District Judge Tiffany Haerthng dis-
missed one of the jurors who was im-
paneled after she told the court she had
plane tickets for a long-planned family
trip from Aug. 13 to Sept. 29. Both sides
agreed to try the case with the eight-
David Minton/DRC file photo
The entrance sign is pictured at the Thistle Hill Estates subdivision off
Ryan Road in south Denton in 2014.
See SUBDIVISION on 5A
Jury
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Cudd charged with
improper relationship
with a DHS student
Pakistani militants struck
at the heart of the coun-
try’s legal profession on
Monday, killing a promi-
nent attorney and then
bombing the hospital
where dozens of other
lawyers had gathered to
mourn. The twin attacks
killed at least 70 people,
most of them lawyers,
authorities said.
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By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones @ dentonrc.com
A Denton County grand jury indicted a
27-year-old former Denton school district
employee Thursday after the jury found
sufficient evidence on a charge of an im-
proper relationship with a student.
Christopher Cudd was arrested in
April after school offi-
cials obtained text mes-
sages suggesting he was
having a sexual relation-
ship with a female Den-
ton High School stu-
dent, who was 17 years
old at the time and grad-
uated in May.
According to an ar-
rest affidavit, Cudd and the student en-
gaged in kissing and sexual conduct for
about a month.
Cudd started working as a substitute
teacher for the district in October 2014,
filling in at Calhoun Middle School and
Denton High. In November 2015, he
moved to a full-time position teaching
Denton High’s In-School Suspension
Barron Ludlum/For the DRC
Traffic is backed up Monday on West University Drive in front of Denton Center, just west of Carroll Bou-
levard, as road construction continues in the area. The Texas Department of Transportation has been work-
ing on the project since 2014 to make West University Drive a six-lane roadway from just west of Bonnie Brae
Street to Elm Street. The project is expected to be completed by the end of March, according to the TxDOT
website.
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STATE
Senator targets gun-free zones
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Texas businesses to do uation,” Hall said in a Monday email,
the right thing and allow “That is about to change this coming legis-
their patrons to carry the lative session.”
firearms they have law-
fully trained with for considered earlier this year by the state
Legislature in Tennessee.
That bill originally proposed the same
zone civil liability on businesses that ban guns.
But later, before it was signed into law, the
By Lauren McGaughy
The Dallas Morning News
Imcgaughy @ dallasnews.com
AUSTIN — Texas businesses that ask
customers to disarm themselves will have
to pay for injuries incurred in these gun-
free zones if state Sen. Bob Hall has his
way.
a
Cudd
Hall’s legislation is modeled on a bill
self-protection.”
“Currently,
these gun-free
businesses possess the
right to prevent legally licensed carry per- bill was completely gutted,
mit holders from carrying a firearm while
on their premise, there is no designation of allow guns from being sued for doing so,
responsibility to provide for the safety of -
their patrons during an active shooter sit- See GUNS on 5A
while
Hall
Twice in less than a
month, a major airline
was paralyzed by a com-
puter outage that pre-
vented passengers from
checking in and flights
from taking off. Last
month, it took South-
west days to recover
from a breakdown it
blamed on a faulty rout-
er. On Monday, it was
Delta’s turn.
Hall, R-Edgewood, wants to propose a
law that will make gun-free businesses lia-
ble for “any harm that befalls patrons as a
result ofbeing deprived of his or her weap-
Now, the law protects businesses that
on.
The law, Hall says, would “encourage
See CUDD on 5A
Family of teen who made clock files lawsuit
parents’ garage, on Monday during a news
conference with his parents and attorneys.
Irving police later dropped the charge,
but he still was suspended for three days.
He never returned to the school; his family
opted to have him take classes elsewhere.
The lawsuit names the Irving school
district, the city of Irving and the school’s
principal, and asks a jury to determine the
damages.
In November, the family asked the dis-
trict and city to pay $15 million or else face
a suit. District spokeswoman Lesley
Weaver said in a statement Monday that
attorneys for the district will review the
suit and determine a course of action.
“Irving ISD continues to deny violating
the student’s rights and will respond to
By Emily Schmall
Associated Press
DALLAS — The family of a Muslim
boy who was arrested after bringing a
homemade clock to school filed a federal
lawsuit Monday against Texas school offi-
cials and others, saying the incident vio-
lated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights,
prompted death threats and forced them
to leave the United States.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ah-
med Mohamed, who was arrested at his
suburban Dallas high school in Septem-
ber and charged with having a hoax bomb.
He says he brought the homemade digital
clock to school to show his English teach-
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Ahmed Mohamed shows the clock he built in a school pencil box to reporters
after a news conference in Dallas on Monday.
Ahmed showed off the clock, made out
of a plastic pencil box and electrical wire
and other hardware salvaged from his
See MOHAMED on 5A
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