The top local stories this morning from KERA News:
A new poll released by the nonprofit Texas Lyceum finds Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton among likely Texas voters in the 2016 Presidential race, but it’s tight.
Trump polled at 39 percent among likely voters to Clinton’s 32 percent. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson polled at 9 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein was at 3 percent. Another 17 percent said that they hadn’t thought enough about it to have an opinion, or didn’t know who they would support.
When it comes to policy though, 59 percent of Texas adults oppose Trump’s plan to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Other stories this morning:
- New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the percentage of poor Texans dropped from 2014 to 2015, but the numbers were a mixed bag for women and children.
- The family of Sandra Bland, the Texas woman who died in jail last year after a controversial traffic stop and arrest, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit. The Austin-American Statesman reports the Waller County Jail will pay $1.8 million, while the Texas Department of Public Safety will pay the remaining $100,000.
- A new film festival debuts in Arlington this weekend. The founder of the Frame4Frame festival talks about what to expect.
You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.
