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Stray Cat Avoids Capture at Love Field. For about a week, a stray cat has eluded authorities at the airport, as it takes its Tom Hanks obsession a bit too far. Dallas Police Department Struggles To Recruit Hispanics. In Dallas, about 42 percent of the population is Hispanic, yet the department is only 19 percent Hispanic, and Hispanics account for only about 21 percent of job applications. Would you be surprised if I told you that the department recruits Hispanics from El Paso? Dallas Couple Says Their Baby Was Switched a Birth. Rich Cushworth and Mercy Casanalles met at Christ for the Nations. She gave birth to their son in El Salvador. Now the doctor who delivered the baby is under investigation for running a baby-trafficking gang. (UPDATE: They got their kid back.)
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Stray Cat Avoids Capture at Love Field. For about a week, a stray cat has eluded authorities at the airport, as it takes its Tom Hanks obsession a bit too far.

Dallas Police Department Struggles To Recruit Hispanics. In Dallas, about 42 percent of the population is Hispanic, yet the department is only 19 percent Hispanic, and Hispanics account for only about 21 percent of job applications. Would you be surprised if I told you that the department recruits Hispanics from El Paso?

Dallas Couple Says Their Baby Was Switched a Birth. Rich Cushworth and Mercy Casanalles met at Christ for the Nations. She gave birth to their son in El Salvador. Now the doctor who delivered the baby is under investigation for running a baby-trafficking gang. (UPDATE: They got their kid back.)

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