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30,000 new Texans in one year
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“Nothing will last forever, but the
best guess for tomorrow is what hap-
pens today,” he said. “And the best
guess, after the last 16 years or so, is that
Texas will probably lead population
growth again next year.”
As of the 2000 census, Texas’ pop-
ulation was 21 million, about seven
Country’s biggest jump brings state population to nearly 28 million
By Jill Cowan
The Dallas Morning News
jcowan @ dallasnews.com
DALLAS — Over the last year, Texas
added 432,957 residents, pushing the
state’s population to almost 28 million,
U.S. Census Bureau data released this
week shows.
That amounts to about 1,183 new
Texans each day and the biggest pop-
ulation jump of any state in the country.
Florida was next, adding 367,525
residents from July 2015 to July 2016,
followed by California, which added
256,077 people.
None of that is likely to surprise Tex-
ans, who have been hearing about the
state’s skyrocketing population for
years — not to mention seeing it in
cranes dotting city skylines and the
seemingly endless sprawl of neighbor-
hoods sprouting on what was recently
wide-open land.
Steve Murdock, a former head of
the census and now director of Rice
University’s Hobby Center for the
Study of Texas, said the state has
topped population growth lists since
about the turn of the millennium —
and he doesn’t expect that to change
just yet.
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IN DENTON
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TWU community steps in to help fill children’s wish lists
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Overcast and mild with
showers and occa-
sional drizzle
High: 70
Low: 59
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Orange County Register/AP file photo
Amid the holiday decorations and
cheerful ads, splurging is not an op-
tion for many Americans struggling to
get by.
Many rely
on thrift to
get by for
holidays
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Megan Alvina
and her 8-
year-old
daughter
Sophia sit
near a Christ-
mas tree in
the club-
house at
Texas Wom-
an’s Universi-
ty’s Lowry
Woods Com-
munity apart-
ments. Alvina
is part of
TWU’s Holi-
day Gift Pro-
gram, which
recruits do-
nors to help
provide pre-
sents for
students’
children.
Hundreds of people re-
turned to eastern Aleppo
neighborhoods to check
on their homes after the
For U.S. workers who
haven’t seen income
grow, budgeting is key
last opposition fighters
left the city.
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By Anne D’lnnocenzio
AP Retail Writer
ELIZABETH, N.J. - At the brightly fit
mall, clothing stores highlight holiday
sweaters and big signs tout the sales, while
Duquan Allen keeps his expectations in
check.
Allen, who works full-time cleaning
planes at Newark Airport, says his mother
doesn’t expect anything big, and he usu-
ally gets a hooded sweatshirt. He plans to
spend about $150 on presents for his
grandmother, mother and 21-year-old sis-
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A man suspected of kill-
ing his wife and infant
son in Texas calmly told
officers during a traffic
stop in Colorado that he
was having a ‘long week”
because his wife and
children had been mur-
dered and he was being
blamed, according to
police reports filed in
connection with the case.
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“I’m good at budgeting,” says Allen,
who makes $10.10 an hour.
Heading into this holiday season, with
gas and food costs down, unemployment
at its lowest point since 2007 and clothing
prices on the decline, economists and re-
tail executives declared it a great time to be
a consumer. But seven years into the re-
covery, there’s a stubborn divide that hour-
ly workers see more starkly during the hol-
idays, between themselves and better-off
consumers who have benefited more as
the economy improved.
“I see people traveling. I wish I could
afford it,” said Allen.
Many workers are indeed earning
more. Average hourly earnings have
picked up 2.5 percent over the past year,
and major retailers have raised wages as
competition for workers has increased.
Thanksgiving weekend featured
crowds of shoppers at stores and malls,
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Santa on campus
STATE
Megan Alvina is a senior at Texas
Woman’s University and, due to finan-
cial constraints, can’t be Santa this
year. Instead, the extended TWU com-
munity is fulfilling Sophia’s Christmas
wishes through the Holiday Gift Pro-
gram, where donors are matched with
a TWU student to provide gifts for
their children. Donors are given
Christmas fists and then shop for the
presents, much like the Angel Tree
program run by the Salvation Army.
“Those who are donating are the
Santas,” Alvina said. “They’re helping
me out to give my daughter a wonder-
ful Christmas. It’s more for her than
me, and I appreciate it completely.”
Sophia is one of 430 children the
By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan@dentonrc.com
ight-year-old Sophia Alvina re-
ally wants an Easy-Bake Oven
from Santa this year.
New shoes and clothes also made
the fist, as she becomes a little more
girly from tomboy, said her mother,
Megan Alvina.
The lawyer for a black
woman who’s seen on
video being wrestled to
the ground and arrested
by a white officer said the
burden is on Fort Worth
police to prove the officer’s
actions weren’t racially
motivated.
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Berlin attack suspect
slain in Italy shootout
Italian police
collect evi-
dence early
Friday near a
train station
in Milan’s
Sesto San
Giovanni
neighbor-
hood. Fugi-
tive Anis
Amri died in a
shootout
with police.
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the search for Anis Amri was over, his
four-day run raised fresh questions about
whether he had any accomplices and how
Europe can stop extremists from moving
freely across its open borders, even amid
an intense manhunt.
Italian police said Amri traveled from
By Colleen Barry and Frank Jordans
Associated Press
MILAN — Aroutine requestfor ID pa-
pers outside a deserted train station in a
Milan suburb at 3 a.m. Friday led to a po-
lice shootout that killed the Tunisian fugi-
tive wanted in the deadly Christmas mar-
ket attack in Berlin.
While authorities expressed relief that
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