🌱 Dallas officer’s Mesquite DUI arrest leads to firing and wider shake-up

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• Dallas officer’s Mesquite DUI arrest leads to firing and wider shake-up

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• Wednesday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 100 and low of 80 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Thursday: Partly sunny and hot, temps: high: 101, low: 79.
• Friday: Hot with a stray thunderstorm, with a high of 101 and low of 78 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• 4 Dallas police officers and 911 call center employees fired (fox4news.com) — A Dallas police officer was recently fired after being arrested in Mesquite on suspicion of driving under the influence, one of four Dallas Police Department employees terminated following disciplinary hearings. The others lost their jobs over rule violations and attendance issues, while another officer received a suspension. Mesquite residents may notice this case as part of broader accountability moves in the region’s largest police force.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• It's so important to teach your children financial literacy.
  Schools may teach math, but understanding how to budget, save, invest, build credit, and manage money are life skills that can shape their future… (Nextdoor Towne Centre Village)
• Hi neighbors!
  I want to tell everyone “of a certain age” (I’m 67) to get your eyes checked if headlights are blinding you more and more. I just thought… (Nextdoor Creek Crossing)

• J. C. Penney Company, Inc. posted a job opening for Stock Associate - Town East Mall in Mesquite. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Garland

• Garland Independent School District plans new project in Garland Texas (intelligence360.news)
• GI Bill schools charged huge sums to train vets how to grow grass, make fake rocks (washingtonpost.com)
• Kids eat for free, low cost this month at these Dallas-Fort Worth restaurants (dallasnews.com)

Dallas

• North Dallas neighbors unite against proposed development projects, threaten to recall council member (cbsnews.com)

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