Overcrowding a major issue at many North Texas animal shelters
"Every shelter is over 100%."
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Raised in Richardson, Erin Jones is proud to call North Texas home.
Her passion for journalism began in elementary school. For a 5th grade graduation memory book, she was asked what do you want to be when you grow up? She wrote journalist.
Erin attended Plano Senior High School and went on to receive a degree in journalism from the University of North Texas' Mayborn School of Journalism. During her time there, she reported and anchored for Denton County Community Television and NTDaily.com.
After college, Erin worked as an anchor and reporter at news stations in Sherman, Tulsa and Austin.
At KOTV in Tulsa, she got her first share of severe weather covering multiple tornadoes. Her investigation into sex offenders registering as homeless to avoid detection on the state's sex offender registry mapping led to changes in the mapping system. She was part of a morning show that received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters.
In Austin, Erin worked as an evening reporter for KVUE and covered the deadliest hot air balloon crash in America's history, bombings that terrorized the city for weeks and the impact of Hurricane Harvey.
Erin now lives in north Dallas and in her free time enjoys getting outdoors, being active and playing with her dogs. She loves traveling and collects coffee mugs from the places she visits.
She enjoys meeting other North Texans and listening to their stories.
"Every shelter is over 100%."
Tuesday, Kaufman County commissioners approved submitting an application for the fix. From start to finish, an official estimated it could take 3-5 years for this work to be complete.
As North Texas continues to get hit with rain, residents in the Rockwall County town of McLendon-Chisholm say they're sick of it.
Residents said the speeding is getting out of control.
Royse City Methodist Church held decades of memories for congregation members like Pam Davis.
A representative for Oncor said crews are working around the clock.
Homeowners living near Ridgeview West Memorial Park say they only learned about it just a few days ago.
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Across North Texas, multiple school districts are seeing a decline in enrollment.
The agency said one of its new transit security officers fired their gun, striking and stopping a potential threat before passengers were put in harm's way Monday night.
At Dallas Executive Airport, the Commemorative Air Force's annual Veterans Day celebration is still taking place, but this year's event will be different.
With 3,000 new enrollments every year, the Prosper Independent School District is one of the fastest growing school districts in North Texas.
The governor expanded the agenda to include billions of dollars from the budget surplus to go toward school safety, teacher pay raises and special education. Also, phasing out the STAAR test.
It led to two deaths and dozens evacuating their homes.
With her sign that read "I've waited 92 years for the Texas Rangers to win the World Series," Nola Pearman finally witnessed this moment in history.