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Judge Amber Givens, Dallas County’s next district attorney, was cleared last week after being accused by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.She read a prepared statement to the media on Thursday.Last year, Judge Givens received a reprimand and admonition from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for allegedly letting her court coordinator conduct a Zoom bond hearing as if she were the judge in 2021.It was also for exceeding authority and courtroom conduct.Givens appealed the findings, and last week a special three-judge panel ruled in her favor. The panel found that the State Judicial Commission had not proven even one of the allegations against Givens.In her prepared statement, Givens talked about the allegations being dismissed and the emotional rollercoaster this has been for her over the past few years."For six years, this wasn’t an abstract legal proceeding for me. It affected my family. It affected my reputation. It affected my ability to do the work I love," she said.S
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Funeral services were held on Thursday for the postal worker who died whole on his route in Little Elm on an extremely hot day.And now there’s a push to change policies to protect employees who work in extreme temperatures.Little Elm Postal Worker DeathFamily, friends, and co-workers gathered on Thursday afternoon to pay their final respects to Umeshkumar Thakkar of Aubrey. The 58-year-old postal worker died on Monday after collapsing while delivering mail in a Little Elm neighborhood.Video from a camera at the corner of Thornhill Lane and Graystone Drive shows Thakkar's USPS truck parked with its hazard lights on around 12:20 p.m. Around 2 p.m., someone called 911 to report that he had passed out in his truck and was unresponsive.Officials administered CPR, but Thakkar was pronounced dead.Thakkar was represented by the National Rural Letter Carrier’s Association. In a letter to FOX 4, the union said it is heartbroken over his passing.The United States Postal Service has not said wheth
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A viral TikTok post did more than rack up views, it helped save a life.After seeing a Cedar Hill man's plea for a kidney, a Houston woman answered the call.Viral TikTok plea leads to life-saving kidney donorIshmael Thorns of Cedar Hill was facing kidney failure when he turned to TikTok in a last-ditch effort to find a donor."My blood type is B positive. You know what I'm saying. I got two young sons. I'm in the Dallas area. I need a kidney, man. Share this post," Thorns said in the video.A rare tumor on Thorns' adrenal gland caused high blood pressure for years. No one in his family was a match, and having the relatively rare B-positive blood type made it more difficult to find a donor.Brandy Laman, a pharmacist in Houston, saw the video and immediately reached out."I just really saw this as an opportunity to help someone in a life-changing way," Laman said. "A similar situation happened with our family. My husband was diagnosed with leukemia in 2024, and he actually received a bone ma
