August 23, Ă‚ 2018
By Nataly Keomoungkhoun and Dom DiFurio
Good morning!
Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day.
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Texas Instruments detailed its potential plans for the Richardson site in an application for a ten-year tax incentive agreement worth tens of millions of dollars with Plano ISD. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) Â
business
Texas Instruments considers Richardson for $3.2 billion facility, asks for big tax breaks
Texas Instruments may pick Richardson for a new manufacturing facility that it says could amount to [$3.2 billion of investment and create as many as 625 jobs.](
The Dallas-based chipmaker detailed its potential plans for the Richardson site in an application for a ten-year tax incentive agreement worth tens of millions of dollars with Plano ISD, the school district where the new facility would be based.Â
The application also said the company planned to ask for property tax breaks from the city of Richardson, Collin County and from the Collin College district, which could be worth up to $8.9 million more.
Meanwhile: There's a new[Ă‚ major project in Frisco](, and it could hold a hint at what the city will become in the years to come.
Also: Plano tech firm Netscout [is making its move to new digs]( in Allen. They're now across the street from Allen's new convention center and hotel.
Sports
Cowboys C Travis Frederick says in statement he has an auto immune disease; no timetable for return to field.Â
Cowboys All-Pro center Travis Frederick [revealed Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome](, a rare autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system to attack its nerves.
Frederick said in a statement that according to his doctors, it's currently not possible to determine when he will be able to return to the field. There's no known cure for Guillain-Barre syndrome, but several treatments can ease symptoms and reduce the duration of the illness.
“I am very optimistic about my condition and the immediate future, as I have been told that the illness was detected at a fairly early stage,” Frederick said.
And: Texas A&M AD Scott Woodward [turned down an offer]( from the University of Texas for a home-and-home football series.
Meanwhile:Ă‚ [Check out one of Gary Patterson's top recruiting tools at TCU](Ă‚ which includes a backyard pool, two rescue dogs, and a wall full of guitars.
Crime
Dallas cop who was fired 12 years ago over indecency-with-a-child case faces new charge
A Dallas police officer was arrested Wednesday on a charge of indecency with a child [after he turned himself in to DeSoto police](.
Senior Cpl. Joe Ramos Jr., a 21-year veteran, was wanted on a charge of indecency with a child by contact,Ă‚ a first-degree felony, authorities said. Details of the charge were not released.
Ramos, 43, was freed from jail on $5,000 bail at around 2 p.m.
DeSoto police spokesman David Williams said the investigation was turned over to the Dallas County district attorney's office one or two weeks ago.
And: A con man who left a 'trail of tears' and 'financial ruin' in the wake of his dating-site scam received [24 years in federal prison from a Texas judge](.
Also:Ă‚ A state appeals court has [dismissed mortgage fraud charges]( against an heir to a Dallas oil fortune.
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- Immigration:Ă‚ [Deportation and family separation]( are constantly in the minds of DACA recipients, new survey shows.
- Courts:Ă‚ Jurors should hear how the officer who killed Jordan Edwards threatened to shoot his gun after a car crash 2 weeks earlier, [prosecutors say](.
- News:Ă‚ Keller police are waiting for a runaway pig's owner to [take home their bacon](.
- Commentary:Ă‚ [Dallas will pay $615,000]( to a man beaten by officers during a 2014 arrest.
- Weather:Ă‚ Smoke from Canada and the northwestern U.S. [will linger in Dallas area]( for a few more days.
- Technology:Ă‚ Driverless cars are coming to 'innovative and progressive' Arlington, and [you can request one](.
A fence surrounds the vacant Cypress Glen nursing home on Monday in Port Arthur, Texas. (Smiley Pool/Staff Photographer)
Finally...
Did nursing homes do enough to save patients when Hurricane Harvey hit? A widow wants answers
Two nursing homes are once again under investigation by the state after they refused to evacuate during Hurricane Harvey and left frail residents wallowing in stinking, murky floodwaters.
The state said it had initially closed its investigation in April when officials couldn’t reach staff members at the Port Arthur nursing homes because they haven’t reopened since the storm. But the Texas Health & Human Services Commission [took a renewed interest in the facilities](, owned by a Dallas company, after inquiries from The Dallas Morning News.
A commission spokeswoman declined to say why 28 complaints into the nursing homes are getting another look. And she wouldn’t comment on their status. A local criminal investigation remains open.
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