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the sacrifices their fellow the
first responders made.
“We use it to
strengthen our resolve Russdl,
and fortify our will,”
Frith said.
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attorney for
of 26-year-old
a volunteer and then a
career firefighter for a
combined 41 years.
“He is known as our
department historian,”
Twiner said, and is
working on researching
and documenting the
department’s history
now that he’s retired.
The second honoree,
Russell Faulkner, had
is getting
$45,294, up 9 percent.
Valley View’s $19,349
in sales tax revenues,
however, is basically
unchanged from last year.
Lindsay is getting 15
percent more, or $12,643.
Oak Ridge’s monthly
allocation of $9,292 is
about 10 percent more
than last year. In Grayson
County, Whitesboro is
also seeing a 35 percent
increase in its monthly
allocation. The town is
receiving $35,371.
SATURDAY
He said one witness
hearing a
with the department as year, Twiner said.
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Lee Merritt,
represents
called it an attempt to the affidavit said.
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revenues by $500,000, or
about 15 percent, for its
2019 fiscal year beginning
Oct. 1.
Tax revenue for
the state’s fiscal year
2018, which concluded
in July, was up 10.5
percent, according to
a press release from
the comptroller’s office.
Hegar attributed the
growth to rising oil prices
and production. August
collections also grew to
$2.87 billion, breaking a
record set in November
2017.
Cooke County’s smaller
municipalities mostly
saw more modest gains
in their August sales tax
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in this case, he went out
and bought the biggest,
brightest red rug and
placed it right there at his
doorstep,” Merritt said.
Merritt has represented
relatives of an unarmed
black teenager who was
fatally shot in the back by
a white police officer in
June while fleeing a traffic
stop near Pittsburgh.
Crump is best known for
representing the families
of Trayvon Martin and
Michael Brown. Martin,
17, was fatally shot
in 2012 in Florida by
George Zimmerman, a
Hispanic man who was
a neighborhood watch
captain. Brown, 18, was
shot to death in 2014 by
a white police officer in
Ferguson, Missouri.
people
have
killed by police in some
of the most unbelievable
manners,” Crump said
earlier Monday, citing
“driving while black in
our cars” and “walking
while black in our
neighborhoods.”
Now, he said, “we are
being killed living while
black when we are in our
apartments.”
It was not immediately
clear if Guyger had an
attorney.
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retirees. The L___
become part of a
memorial to firefighters’
been a volunteer since
1981 while working full-
time elsewhere. “Over
years, I cannot
remember a structure
fire where I did not see
Twiner said.
“His level of commitment
is unmatched.”
The third, Shane Lee,
filled the folding chairs reluctantly resigned
set up in front of the from his paid position
historic fire station and in 2014 to focus on his
stood around the area business ventures,
for the ceremonies. It Twiner said. He was a
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Twiner added.
Twiner described
the last honoree as “a
leader” whose
leadership
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bricks recognized throughout
of a the department. Doug
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sacrifices with the old a car crash in 2016 and
fire bell and pieces of at his death had been a
steel from the collapsed firefighter for nearly 19
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oil industry.”
So far, the city has
received $5,556,266 in
sales tax allocations this
year, according to the
comptroller’s website.
That’s up 24 percent from
last year.
Cooke County is also
seeing a boost in local
sales tax allocations,
getting about 40 percent
more this August than
the same month last year.
“Sales tax can be
somewhat volatile at
times, as compared to
property taxes
are more stable,”
County Judge
Brinkley said by email.
“That being said, as long
as the oil and gas industry,
and our local economy
remain strong, we should
expect to see strong sales
tax numbers for the
foreseeable future.”
The county will see
$434,745 from August
sales taxes, according to
the comptroller’s website.
Year to date, the county
has received $2,579,676,
up 22 percent from last
year.
Brinkley said
county increased
projected sales
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“condone what happened,
give her a break.”
The document,
prepared by a Texas door to see she was in the
Ranger, appeared to be wrong unit, according to particular place,” Merritt
based almost entirely on the affidavit. Authorities said.
Guyger’s description of have not released the 911
events. tapes.
Guyger, a four-year The
veteran
Attorneys question officer's
account of Dallas shooting
DALLAS (AP) — a 15-hour shift Thursday chest. His death was ruled
Attorneys for the family of when she returned in a homicide. Guyger was
a black man who was shot uniform to the South Side arrested Sunday night
and killed by a white Dallas Flats apartment complex, and booked into jail in
police officer who says she She parked on the fourth neighboring
mistook his apartment for floor, instead of the third, County
hers criticized the officer’s where she lived, according released on bond,
account, saying it was to the affidavit, possibly
overly sympathetic and suggesting that she was Monday evening, Merritt
contradicted statements confused or disoriented. said two independent
from neighbors. When she put her key witnesses have told him
The officer’s account in the apartment door, they heard knocking on
emerged in an arrest which was unlocked and the door in the hallway
affidavit released Monday, slightly ajar, it opened, before the shooting,
shortly after the district the affidavit said. Inside,
attorney announced that the lights were off, and reported
the case against officer she saw a figure in the woman’s voice saying, “Let
Amber Guyger would be darkness that cast a large me in! Let me in!” Then
presented to a grand jury, silhouette across the they heard gunshots, after
which could decide on room, according to the which one witness said
more serious charges than officer’s account. she heard a man’s voice
manslaughter. The officer told police say, “Oh my God! Why did
Benjamin Crump, an that she concluded her you do that?”
relatives apartment was being Merritt said he believes
Botham burglarized and gave those were Jean’s last
Jean, said the affidavit is verbal commands to the words.
which ignored As for the contention
, who also them. She then drew her that Jean left his front
the family, weapon and fired twice, door ajar, Merritt said
Jean was a “meticulous
and, individual” who made it
“a point to close the door
was, returned to the front behind him.”
“He put everything in a
He said Jean had a
red doormat outside his
a four-year The Dallas County apartment door. “In fact,
of the police medical examiner’s to ensure no one mistook
force, told investigators office said Jean died of his apartment the way
that she had just ended a gunshot wound to the this officer is claiming
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