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Top Stories: Fort Worth City Council, Police Officials Discuss SB 4

Rodger Mallison/Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A crowd passes the Fort Worth Convention Center Tuesday during a “Day of Action” to protest Senate Bill 4. ";s:

The top local stories this morning from ĻӰԺ: Fort Worth police officials warned the city council yesterday Senate Bill 4 would damage trust with immigrant communities. whether to join other Texas cities in a lawsuit against the sanctuary cities bill, which will go into effect next month. 

No vote was taken at the meeting. Meanwhile, hundreds of SB 4 opponents marched through downtown Fort Worth. 

Photo credit: Rodger Mallison/

Other stories this morning: 

  • Fort Worth's Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) is taking in half a million plant specimens from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. According to a 2015 report in the international science journal, Nature, more than 15 percent of North American research collections of dried plants have been lost since 1997 due to rising costs, limited space and competing institutional priorities.

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

Former ĻӰԺ staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and ĻӰԺNews.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.