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The Environmental Protection Agency will study air, water, fish tissue and soil quality in West Dallas to determine whether residents are being exposed to high levels of pollutants.The EPA announced at a regional meeting in West Dallas that the cumulative impact assessment will begin in December and run through July 2024.Related:Dallas residents could be stripped of their right to petition to shut down harmful businesses”West Dallas has historically been affected by environmental issues, and organizations like West Dallas and Singleton United have organized and fought to keep the community clean and pollution-free.” said Arcee Nance, EPA regional administrator for Region…

A massive effort is underway to bring some of the most famous extinct animals back to life at the historic site of Deep Ellum. This wild mission comes from a Dallas-based company called Colossal Biosciences, which is working to eliminate the woolly mammoth, which was lost 4,000 years ago. Matt James is Chief Animal Officer at Colossal. “We're developing tomorrow-changing technologies to end extinction, but what's surprising is that those technologies are also transforming the protection of endangered species today,” James said. Told. Using Asian elephant DNA and DNA recovered from woolly mammoths frozen in the Arctic tundra, researchers at…

An East Dallas family is mourning the death of a man who was shot and killed while chasing a group of car robbers. Dallas police say 24-year-old Marco Ramirez was shot to death around 4 a.m. on Nov. 14 near the 5300 block of Parry Avenue. Investigators told NBC 5 that Ramirez was chasing robbers who had stolen his father's truck when he was shot. Hours after the incident, bullet holes were found in the front of another truck owned by the victim's sister, Carla Ramirez. The front of her car was dented where she tried to ram the robbers…

Dallas (CBSNewsTexas.com) – The Dallas Open announced this month that the ATP Tour event will be upgraded to a 500-level tournament in 2025. The Dallas Open is one of three tournaments selected from a pool of 17 and given an upgrade. DALLAS, TX – FEBRUARY 3: Dallas Open Media Day will be held on February 3, 2023 at the Stithlinger/Altec Tennis Complex in Dallas. George Walker/DFW Sports Online What does this mean for tennis tournaments?It means that its status and importance will increase in the world of professional tennis. The ATP 500 tournament is his fourth highest division among the…

Officials and family members said Marco Ramirez died when he was confronted by suspects who had stolen his father's car. Investigators are searching for three more suspects. DALLAS — A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a man who tried to stop a car thief in Dallas last week, police said. Dallas police identified the arrested suspect as 30-year-old Alejandro Deleon. Officials said he was arrested last Friday, three days after the shooting that killed 24-year-old Marco Antonio Ramirez. Police said DeLeon was charged with murder and booked into the Dallas County Jail. The shooting occurred Nov.…

Opening on November 14, 2023, the new Bar Colette is aimed at international jet-set tours to cities like London, Paris and Mexico City in Dallas' West Village.Brothers Brandon and Henry Cohanim opened the bar next to their omakase restaurant, Namo, as a complementary venue for pre-dinner drinks and after-dinner cocktails and desserts. It's a small, sleek place with ocher curved seating and blush-colored bar stools, seating just 34 people.Carrot Cake Drink (left) is made with bonded rye, cream sherry, malt, spiced carrots and eggs. A play on the Negroni, the Rosetta is made with gin, red bitters, sweet vermouth, pineapple…

Lenders plan to foreclose on a troubled Dallas office tower in December.The 12-story Uptown Tower on the North Central Expressway has been in default since August. And lenders have signaled plans to take over the hot property.The Houston-based real estate investor who owns the building at 4144 North Central Expressway was working on extending the loan or refinancing the property.But the mortgage holder plans to foreclose on the 253,561-square-foot building on Dec. 5, according to filings with Dallas County.The tower was originally financed in 2013 with a $16.45 million loan from Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC. More than $14…

Although not directly related to the UTA research program, this is an example of a rotary explosion rocket engine. [Photo: U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory] For generations, rockets have propelled payloads and people deep into space. But next-generation versions called “rotary-explosion rocket engines” are opening up new possibilities that could make propulsion in space more efficient, compact, and powerful. Now, a team of Arlington Tech researchers has been awarded $900,000 from NASA to help advance their technology. This grant is part of the NASA MUREP Space Technology Artemis Research (M-STAR), which promotes and increases minority-serving agency participation in research and…

[Image sources: Tippapatt/istockphoto; DI] Dallas' digital divide is now narrowing a bit. The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) opens the doors to its newest technology hub, the Connected Dallas Tech Lab at Bachman Lake Together, representing a major milestone in its efforts to provide internet access and opportunity for all. The new “community anchor site,” equipped with computers and Wi-Fi, is the second of eight brick-and-mortar walk-in centers scheduled to open by summer 2024 as part of DIA's Connected Dallas initiative. These technology labs offer free one-on-one visits for residents to sign up for low-cost internet plans, learn digital skills, and…

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — A dispute between two North Dallas residents over a tree felling turned into something law enforcement officials say they've never seen before. Jeannie Trebisky recalls the moment she walked out into her backyard and saw eyes staring back at her from what her neighbors called an art installation. CBS News Texas “My heart stopped because all I could see were eyes staring at me,” Trebisky said. She said this was in retaliation for her neighbor's crape myrtle tree, which had been pruned after hanging on the fence above the pool and dropping its flower leaves. “I was…