Miranda Suarez
Tarrant County Accountability ReporterMiranda Suarez is KERA’s Tarrant County accountability reporter.
Before coming to North Texas, she was the Lee Ester News Fellow at Wisconsin Public Radio, where she covered statewide news, including election security and politics, as well as local police and military issues in the city of Madison.
Originally from Massachusetts, Miranda started her journalism career at WTBU, Boston University’s student radio station. Her first public radio jobs were at WBUR, where she was a newscast intern and later a fellow on the business desk. During an internship at Boston 25 News, she conducted an investigation into mental health counseling services at Massachusetts colleges and universities that was nominated for a 2019 New England Emmy.
Miranda is always looking for stories of the weird and wonderful — whether it’s following a robot around a grocery store or sampling cheeses at a Wisconsin cheese contest. Outside of journalism, she loves reading, road trips and Dungeons & Dragons.
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Brent Brown was shot twice while working an off-duty job at a credit union in east Fort Worth. Sheriff Bill Waybourn says his recovery is progressing each day.
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Dean was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for killing Atatiana Jefferson in her home in 2019.
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The Tarrant County Mental Health Jail Diversion Center is an effort to keep people with mental illness out of jail.
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Renovating the training center is the cheapest option.
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The three prosecutors will focus solely on large-scale distributors of drugs like fentanyl, heroin and meth.
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Willie Thomas was accused of shooting and killing a Fort Worth club manager in 2009. Newer, more advanced DNA analysis called his conviction into question.
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Several current Tarrant County elected officials are considering running to replace U.S. Rep. Kay Granger.
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Granger is 80 and has served in Congress since 1997.
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One voter reached out to KERA to answer a big question: Did my ballot get counted?
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Tarrant County’s Election Integrity Task Force formed in February. The county can’t say how many tickets have been issued due to task force investigations.
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The Dallas County Elections Board voted to appoint former Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia to the same job.
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As of May, more than a third of UTA undergraduates identified as Latino.