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Dallas police have released more details about the shocking murder of a woman whose body was found frozen and stuffed in a freezer.Kendrick Brown, 51, was arrested last week for 27-year-old Maria Murray’s death. A newly released arrest warrant affidavit indicates the two were in a romantic relationship plagued by violence.Woman found in freezer of abandoned homeMurray’s body was found on May 10 inside the freezer of an abandoned home in the 1400 block of Georgia Avenue, which is in East Oak Cliff.The house is located near the Illinois Avenue DART Station. Neighbors described it as a frequent site for drug activity with people coming and going all day and night.According to court documents, several of those people reached out to detectives with tips.The affidavit states that a neighbor called 911 on May 10 to report that a lot of people were leaving the vacant residence, saying there was a body in a freezer. The responding officers located the freezer and the body in a master bedroom.Th
DM 22h ago
In the fall of 1997, Cesar Chavez Learning Center opened in East Dallas, roughly four years after the man it is named after died. This week, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees will vote to change the school’s name and revise the processes for naming and renaming schools. The discussion on the former became necessary … Continued The post A New Name for Cesar Chavez Learning Center appeared first on D Magazine.
FOX4 16h ago
It’s been known for months that there are errors in the curriculum, but now we’re learning it’ll cost millions of taxpayer dollars to fix. Millions in taxpayer dollars to fund curriculum updatesMore than $8 million of taxpayer money will be spent to fix thousands of errors related to the Texas education agency’s controversial bluebonnet curriculum, according to a contract provided to FOX 4 by the state board of education’s Vice Chair Pam Little. "I just think that this is a cost that we really didn’t need to have," said Little. "My background is educational publishing and never have I ever seen a program come with this many errors."The Texas state legislature approved the curriculum in 2023. It drew criticism because parts of the curriculum incorporate lessons drawn from bible stories.Thousands of typos and copyright issues uncoveredIt’s not required to learn in all Texas school districts, but it’s incentivized as districts get $60 per student. Roughly a quarter of Texas school distric
