Saturday 4th September, 2010
US-Muslim soldier wants to quit over mismatch between his God and war in Afghanistan
A Muslim soldier, Naser Abdo, from Texas who joined the U.S. Army last year, has said that he wants to leave the military, claiming he is a conscientious objector because Islam is a peaceful religion and his God does "not give legitimacy to the war" in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere.
Dodge faces win-or-else season at North Texas
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2007, file photo, North Texas head coach Todd Dodge looks on during an NCAA college football game against Navy in Denton, Texas. Dodge is no longer the hot shot high school coa...
North Texas Has Above Average Consumer Debt
September 04, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Debt is an issue that affects most of America, and North Texas is no different. The residents of North Texas, including the Dallas and Fort Worth, are amongst ...
Google faces Texas AG inquiry, settles privacy suit
Times of IndiaSAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office into the fairness of its search engine rankings. The world No. 1 search en...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Assoc. Chief Favors Gradual Rate Hikes
Insurance Journal5 percent increases in both its residential and commercial rates, effective Jan. 1, 2011. While indications are those hikes won't bring the rates for the state's coastal insurer of last resort up to t...
Texas opens inquiry into Google search rankings
Gadsden TimesGoogle Inc.'s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas' attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant...
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office looking into Google's recommendations
Star-TelegramCALIFORNIA -- Google Inc.'s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power a...
National survey finds above-average rate of sexual abuse at two Tarrant County jails
Star-Telegrammitchmitchell@star-telegram.com Inmates at two Tarrant County jails reported incidents of sexual abuse at a rate higher than prisoners nationwide, according to a Justice Department survey of hund...
Man gets 180 years for shooting
Star-TelegramOn Wednesday, Jones, 20, cursed at a fellow gang member whom he accused of lying about Jones' shooting into a car and killing a bystander, 16-year-old Telefario Mitchell, and wounding rival gang membe...
Victim's mother sheds light on Fort Worth police excessive force case
Star-Telegramdboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH -- The mother of a 28-year-old woman who was injured by a Fort Worth police officer during an arrest said she was pleasantly surprised by the Police Department'...
Fifth man arrested in slaying at Fort Worth convenience store
Star-Telegramdboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH -- A fifth person has been arrested on a capital murder warrant in the slayings of a store clerk and a Mrs Baird's delivery driver during a robbery of a far sou...
Cowboys open new pro shop in Fort Worth's Sundance Square
Star-Telegrampalfano@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH -- The black Lincoln Town Car pulled up to the curb on Main Street in Sundance Square, and out stepped two Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders dressed in blue warm-up...
Gilbert takes over for McCoy at No. 5 Texas
MSNBCReplacing Colt McCoy at Texas won't be an easy task for Garrett Gilbert. Luckily for the sophomore quarterback, he got a taste of being in a high-pressure situation last season.
Texas Probes Google on Ranking of Search Results
International Herald TribuneGoogle ranks search results, the first United States case to strike at the heart of the company’s main search business. The issue at hand — referred to as search neutrality — is whe...
Stray Bullet Startles Dallas Newlyweds Awake
NBC 5Andres Correa and his wife had just gotten into bed Thursday night when the stray bullet pierced the living room window in their 14th-floor apartment. The bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and hit a c...
Cyclists Geared Up Against Permit Ordinance
NBC 5The roads in the small town 10 miles from Lewisville are very narrow, contributing to the problem. A car behind cyclists who don't move to the side of the road can only pass them by using the oncoming...
Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. will resume public tastings
Star-TelegramStar-Telegram Starting next week, Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. will hold its Wednesday and Saturday public tastings for the first time since a Feb. 12 snowstorm collapsed the Fort Worth's microbrewe...
Dallas-Fort Worth auto dealers form new group
Star-Telegramsnishimura@star-telegram.com The two Metroplex auto dealers associations are combining to form one trade group that will promote the industry and run their big annual car shows.
Texans cut K Brown
SportsNetworkHouston, TX (Sports Network) - Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak conceded Friday that the team had cut longtime kicker Kris Brown. Kubiak did not want to discuss the whole of the team's cuts a...
Dallas company buys KIII-TV
Corpus Christi Caller-TimesDallas-based London Broadcasting Co., Inc. completed its purchase of KIII-TV on Tuesday, ending Channel 3 of Corpus Christi Inc.'s nearly 45 years running the station.
Starting To Show It
Dallas CowboysWhen Stephen McGee first talked with the media via conference call after the Cowboys drafted him last April, he said he wanted to win Super Bowls, as in plural. Eyes did roll. An option quarterback f...
MLS preview: FC Dallas vs. Toronto FC
CBC NewsGames don't get much more important than this one for Toronto. With nine matches remaining in Major League Soccer's regular season, the Reds sit ninth in the overall standings, two points behind the ...
Saving City Money at the Dallas Farmers Market?
NBC 5Dallas spends $1.7 million tax dollars a year to operate the Farmers Market, and officials hope a private company might be able to do the job without subsidy from cash strapped City Hall.
Wilmer Water Bills Through the Roof
NBC 5"Evidently, there has to be some type of error, and we're investigating those," Mayor Jeffery Steele said. "Until we can figure out the reason why this happened, we can't come up with a...
Texas attorney general investigating Google
Market WatchSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Texas' top law-enforcement official is conducting an antitrust review of Google Inc., focused on whether the company has unfairly hindered the popularity of certain Web ...
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