Jack Douglas Jr. is the NBC 5 Investigates producer. He is a native North Texan and an award-winning journalist in both broadcast and newspapers.
He has covered the Branch Davidian standoff outside Waco; the Florida chad count in the 2000 presidential race; the 9/11 attacks in New York City; the Oklahoma City bombing; Katrina in New Orleans; and the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Tex.
Before joining NBC 5 Investigates, he worked for Dateline NBC, the McClatchy Newspapers Washington Bureau, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Post, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and the Texarkana Gazette.
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COVID-19 Cases Spike in Texas Daycare, Will Classrooms Be Next?
COVID-19 cases have more than tripled at Texas daycare centers during the past four weeks, a troubling trend that officials worry will spill over into schools as classrooms begin to re-open to students and teachers.
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Judge Denies Early Release From Prison For Dwaine Caraway and His Briber
A federal judge today denied requests for leniency, in the wake of the pandemic, from two of the top conspirators in the Dallas County Schools corruption case – former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and the man who bribed him, Louisiana businessman Robert Leonard. A lawyer for Caraway, once seen as a future mayoral contender, had argued he should…
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Former Mayor Pro-Tem Caraway Seeks Home Confinement, Cites COVID-19 Spread in Federal Prisons
Dwaine Caraway, the disgraced former mayor pro-tem of Dallas who is now in prison for taking bribes, has formally asked to be placed in home confinement because of his deteriorating health and the danger of catching COVID-19 while behind bars.
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Backlog of Expired TX Drivers Licenses & IDs Tops 500,000 After Pandemic Shutdown
If you thought lines to renew your driver’s license were long before, get ready for possibly even longer lines – another symptom caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Feds Obtain New Guilty Plea in Dallas County Schools Scandal
A New Orleans lawyer has admitted to helping conceal $800,000 in bribes in the Dallas County Schools scandal making him the sixth person to plead guilty in federal court since NBC 5 Investigates first uncovered the corruption.
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Workers Share Carpool Vans at Meat Plant With COVID-19 Outbreak
Burmese refugees living in Dallas travel to work at Tyson’s Sherman plant using DART vehicles, raising concerns about spreading the virus on their commute.
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Official Confirms More Than 200 COVID-19 Cases at North Texas Meat Plant
At least 220 workers at the Tyson Foods plant in Sherman have tested positive for COVID-19, with some of those infected living in surrounding communities throughout Dallas-Fort Worth, NBC 5 Investigates has confirmed.
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Church's Phony COVID-19 Cure Sold From North Texas
NBC 5 Investigates has learned that a group that has drawn the ire of the federal government for selling what it called a “miracle” cure for COVID-19 has ties to North Texas and a small town 80 miles east of Dallas.
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Despite Rising Death Toll, Some Texas Nursing Homes Still Struggle to Find PPE
Despite the surge in COVID-19-related deaths and illnesses in Texas nursing homes, the state has no dedicated pipeline for getting the protective equipment to those facilities to help them battle the virus, leaving them to wait in line with others as the mortality rate grows.
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Emergency Tents Go Up at North Texas Federal Prison Home of the State's Worst Virus Outbreak
In a scene strikingly similar to a war-time military field hospital, the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth has erected huge tents on its sprawling campus to help deal with what has become the state’s largest cluster of people sick with COVID-19.
