The top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will appear in a McKinney courtroom today. His defense team will try to get felony securities fraud charges against him dismissed.
Paxton’s accused of encouraging people to invest more than $100,000 into a tech startup without revealing he was being paid by the company. This all allegedly happened when Paxton was in the state Legislature.
Other stories this morning:
- Texas Central Railway, the company behind the Dallas – to – Houston high speed rail project, begins a series of public meetings tonight. The first will be held at the South Side Ballroom in Dallas at 6:30 p.m.
- When college dorms close during the holidays, homeless students don’t have many options. A program at Texas Woman’s University in Denton is trying to change that.
- New York Times reporter Jeff Schmalz is the subject of the documentary “Dying Words,” which airs tonight at 8 on KERA FM. His reporting helped transform coverage of AIDS.
You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.