Amber Gaudethttps://www.ambergaudet.comRSS Feed for Amber GaudetenThu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100Downtown Greyhound bus stationhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/9aa9109a-6ba5-45f9-a445-7a2ac8db843e.pdfThu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/9aa9109a-6ba5-45f9-a445-7a2ac8db843e.pdf‘Appalled’: Hundreds decry proposed DART cuts, fare hikes at raucous hearinghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/02cfbae9-ed39-4159-9729-389ec965061d.pdfThu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/02cfbae9-ed39-4159-9729-389ec965061d.pdfTexas car accident victims could have a harder time recovering damages under legislationhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/96764398-d3b0-4120-8001-68f52c71f6da.pdfIt was just after 9 a.m. and Devyn Dally was wondering why she hadn’t received the usual “goodmorning” text from her husband, Clint, when she heard a knock at the door. Two sheriff’s deputies told her Clint, who worked in the oil field, had been on his way to a job site outside Midland when he was hit head-on by a frac engineer who fell asleep at the wheel. Clint died in his car, where he was trapped, 30 minutes later.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/96764398-d3b0-4120-8001-68f52c71f6da.pdfThe rail industry is changing. A small Texas town is fighting backhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/8fc2f06f-65f1-4aa0-9b94-a8b7ab5a91e6.pdfLongform feature about an East Texas rail town in a legal battle over a 19th-century contract to keep railroad jobs there.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/8fc2f06f-65f1-4aa0-9b94-a8b7ab5a91e6.pdfClient Challengehttps://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2024/05/21/the-rail-industry-is-changing-a-small-texas-town-is-fighting-back/Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2024/05/21/the-rail-industry-is-changing-a-small-texas-town-is-fighting-back/Client Challengehttps://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2025/03/25/paratransit-is-critical-for-people-with-disabilities-dallas-residents-say-it-failed-them/Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2025/03/25/paratransit-is-critical-for-people-with-disabilities-dallas-residents-say-it-failed-them/Client Challengehttps://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2025/03/25/paratransit-is-critical-for-people-with-disabilities-dallas-residents-say-it-failed-them/Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2025/03/25/paratransit-is-critical-for-people-with-disabilities-dallas-residents-say-it-failed-them/Wrongful death lawsuits stacked up. But a Charlotte-area surgeon kept operating.https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article312715887.htmlDespite a disproportionate number of wrongful death and malpractice settlements, criminal drug charges and repeated patient complaints, a North Carolina surgeon continues to operate. He's one of many who face few consequences from regulators.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article312715887.htmlRecords show CATS bans don’t keep dangerous riders away from buses and trainshttps://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article314564220.htmlWhen Oscar Solorzano stabbed another passenger aboard the Charlotte Area Transit System’s LYNX Blue Line train in December, he wasn’t supposed to be on the train at all. He’d been banned from using CATS transportation a few months earlier. But violent riders flouting bans is a common occurrence on CATS, according to the transit system’s own records from the last two years.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article314564220.htmlDART failed to protect passengers with disabilities from sexual assault, lawsuits allegehttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/ee22c909-c3be-46a3-9b53-9871721bbae4.pdfDallas Area Rapid Transit failed to intervene despite a pattern of sexual assaults against riders with disabilities by drivers, multiple lawsuits alleged.Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/ee22c909-c3be-46a3-9b53-9871721bbae4.pdfClosure of Texas shop kept open by 19th-century pact leaves rail workers ‘in limbo’https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/fb4d1211-da2c-4a59-9221-96692c9755c0.pdfUnion Pacific Railroad has notified employees in the East Texas town of Palestine that their jobs — kept in place by an 1872 contract with the county — will be eliminated following a decision Friday by the Texas Supreme Court. In the latest development in a long legal battle between the railroad and local officials, the court on Friday denied the county’s request to reconsider hearing the case.Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/fb4d1211-da2c-4a59-9221-96692c9755c0.pdfParatransit is critical for people with disabilities. Dallas residents say it failed themhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/35dd283c-ddc2-48c6-8856-2f48f6c68090.pdfExclusive investigation into systemic failures of the paratransit system for disabled riders operated by Texas' largest public transit agency, Dallas Area Rapid Transit.Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/35dd283c-ddc2-48c6-8856-2f48f6c68090.pdfNTTA files $8.6 million in suits targeting businesses over unpaid tollshttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/db488c8c-f3f2-4e40-8d91-8c053ff5184b.pdfA monthslong Dallas Morning News investigation has uncovered a little-known program created by the North Texas Tollway Authority that allows the region’s only public toll operator to sue small business owners for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unpaid tolls that sometimes are erroneous or unproven in state court, and then seek tens of thousands more in attorney fees.Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/db488c8c-f3f2-4e40-8d91-8c053ff5184b.pdfAbortion bans pose new risks for Texans on probation, parolehttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/1c54b5f9-3310-4a75-aa1a-9ee9ac6ad904.pdfTexas has more women under supervision than any other state, and officers lack clear guidelines on how to address abortion travel requests after Dobbs.Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/505163/uploads/1c54b5f9-3310-4a75-aa1a-9ee9ac6ad904.pdfFormer tenants accuse local landlord of exploitative practices, thefthttps://dentonrc.com/news/former-tenants-accuse-local-landlord-of-exploitative-practices-theft/article_60417955-e763-5342-88de-7be861802a6d.htmlInvestigation into a Denton landlord that defrauded would-be homeowners in a rent-to-own scheme, trapping them unlivable homes.Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://dentonrc.com/news/former-tenants-accuse-local-landlord-of-exploitative-practices-theft/article_60417955-e763-5342-88de-7be861802a6d.htmlIn Providence Village, a homeowners association ousts Section 8 residentshttps://dentonrc.com/news/in-providence-village-a-homeowners-association-ousts-section-8-residents/collection_75f790d9-adee-5e10-9d94-e8df0d3f6cd9.htmlHousing series led to a federal investigation into an HOA’s attempts to prohibit Section 8 renters in 2022 & a new Texas law passed in 2023. Named the Star Investigative Report of the Year by the Texas Managing Editors.Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://dentonrc.com/news/in-providence-village-a-homeowners-association-ousts-section-8-residents/collection_75f790d9-adee-5e10-9d94-e8df0d3f6cd9.htmlHow a fraudulent company scored a Chapter 380 agreement in Dentonhttps://dentonrc.com/business/how-a-fraudulent-company-scored-a-chapter-380-agreement-in-denton/collection_e97bc564-3c16-5c94-9a25-f34f2a595178.htmlAn exclusive series revealed how a convicted fraudster landed tax incentives to bring a fake company he created to Denton, TX. Series led to the resignation of Denton's top two economic development officials and won a Star award from Texas Managing Editors.Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://dentonrc.com/business/how-a-fraudulent-company-scored-a-chapter-380-agreement-in-denton/collection_e97bc564-3c16-5c94-9a25-f34f2a595178.html