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Top Stories: Mental Health Advocates Prepping For Timberlawn Closure

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Timberlawn Mental Health System has 144 beds. If the facility closes, those patients will have to find treatment elsewhere.

The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Health officials want to close TimberlawnMental Health System in Dallas. Some North Texas mental health advocates have been preparing for this moment when it was revealed Timberlawn had a series of safety violations dating back to 2009.

Other stories this morning:

  • Texas Senator Ted Cruz banked on the evangelical vote in the Southern states, but Donald Trump won their votes in states like Alabama this week. We look at how the evangelical vote is changing in this week’s Friday Conversation.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.