Stella M. Chávez
StellaChávezisKERA’seducation reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years atThe Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-partDMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a smallOaxacanvillage to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.
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More than four dozen workers have died from excessive heat in Texas, according to an investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations, NPR and The Texas Newsroom. -
Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.
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Immigrant advocates say DACA was only a Band-Aid. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's recent order to halt new DACA applications puts the pressure on Congress to act.
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LULAC’s request comes after Gov. Greg Abbott said migrant children are being brought to the U.S. by human traffickers or being used as drug mules.
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Texas farmers say this week's winter storm was unlike anything they've experienced before. The below-freezing temperatures as well as power and water outages have severely disrupted the country's food supply chain.
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Icy conditions lead to a major accident on Interstate 35 West in Fort Worth Thursday. At least six people have died and at least 36 people were taken to area hospitals.
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Guy Reffitt of Wylie has been charged with unlawful entry and obstruction of justice. He’s at least the fourth North Texan to face charges related to the attack.
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President Trump issued a proclamation last year that temporarily banned entry into the U.S. for some employment-based visa holders. That order, which was recently extended to March, plus the impact of COVID-19, has kept some workers in limbo for months.
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Advocates want detainees to be released and are demanding federal officials investigate allegations from eight men who say they were physically abused and threatened while previously detained at Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi.
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The Dallas resident surrendered her dog, Muffy, to the city's animal shelter after she couldn't afford treatment for a leg condition. Now she faces animal cruelty charges and possible deportation.
