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Texas couple charged with injury to adoptive son who died
A Texas couple have been charged with injury to a child, their 4-year-old adoptive son who died in March. David and Angela Cook of Cleburne were arrested Monday, ...
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Dallas to build shopping strip to complement convention center
The Dallas Convention Center and the Omni Hotel are connected in downtown Dallas. Dallas city leaders are hoping a new 15,000 square-foot strip of retail and restaurants they are planning to build near the Dallas Convention Center will help the city attract more businesses. It's all part of a bigger plan that includes a 350-space parking garage, pedestrian streetscapes and streetcars. The ...
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Mesquite provides information on severe weather
Mesquite, TX - May 21, 2013 - Today, the National Weather Service out of Fort Worth is predicting that conditions are right in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area for strong to severe storms to develop this afternoon into the evening hours as the storms move across from the northwest to the southeast. These storms have the potential to produce very high winds and large, damaging hail. There is ...
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Texas Emerging Technology Fund slated to get $50M
The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be allocated $50 million for the next biennium. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be replenished with $50 million for the next two years, based on a new budget deal, the Austin American Statesman reports. Although this falls below Gov. Rick Perrys request of $69.5 million for the ETF for the next two years, the amount is still a ...
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Fort Worth Implements Stage 1 Water Restrictions
"The watering restrictions apply to all 225,000 Fort Worth retail accounts, including those outside the city limits. It also applies to wholesale customers, the other entities that purchase treated water and resell it. In accordance with their contract, wholesale customers must enact the same restrictions as Fort Worth. The wholesale customers that regularly purchase water are Aledo, ...
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Texas senior 18 bags 800-pound record alligator
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator - the heaviest ever certified in Texas - on his first alligator ...
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Despite rain water restrictions coming to North Texas
The Tarrant Regional Water District will implement mandatory water restrictions June 3, limiting irrigation to twice a week for most Tarrant County cities. It feels strange to talk about water restrictions with thunderstorm clouds on the horizon but hey, this is Texas. Most cities in North Texas will have to observe mandatory water restrictions in June if they aren't already. The Tarrant ...
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Park Gates at City Place in Dallas gets new owner
Park Gates at City Place was sold by The Connor Group to a new investor. In the second property sale this month, Ohio-based The Connor Group has sold Park Gates at City Place, a 228-unit apartment property in East Dallas. Terms of the deal, including the investor purchasing the property, were undisclosed, a company official told me Tuesday. The Connor Group owned the East Dallas property for six ...
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Former Texas Marine kidnapped in Mexico
Armando Torres, 27 A former Marine from Texas who served for seven years has been kidnapped by armed men in Mexico, his family said.Armando Torres, 27, crossed the Los Indios Bridge in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday night to visit his dad and was supposed to return Wednesday morning.Torres' uncle, Eduardo Torres, says he's worried and claims he and two other family members from Mexico ...
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Many Texas women getting more invasive breast biopsy
Many women getting breast surgical biopsy instead less invasive biopsy. A pink ribbon to recognize breast cancer awareness hangs on the North Portico of the White House in Washington. UPI/Kevin ...
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Texas authorities issue warrant for Richmond pastor
RICHMOND -- A warrant for the arrest of Geronimo Aguilar, senior pastor of the Richmond Outreach Center, has been issued but it is not clear whether it has been served or if Aguilar is in custody, according to sources familiar with the ...
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Mesquite police investigating early morning shooting
Police received a call at 1:59 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, about loud sounds of an argument and multiple gunshots at the Peachtree Apartments, 1402 S. Peachtree. When police arrived they found one victim, Roinico Harris, a black male born in 1979, in the driver's seat of a vehicle with injuries from a gunshot wound.Harris was transported to Baylor Hospital in Dallas and is currently in ...
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Deadly tornado rips apart Oklahoma town severe weather in north Texas
Severe weather building three miles outside of Muenster, Texas Monday evening. Storms plagued north central Texas for hours after a deadly tornado killed 24 people in Moore, Okla. Photo by James ...
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Officials Fear Texas Tornado Death Toll May Rise
Multiple tornadoes, flash floods and huge hail hit North Texas hard on Wednesday. At least six people dead and more are missing, and officials fear the death toll could rise. Storm chasers 40 miles west of Fort Worth braved the weather to capture dramatic video of a tornado touchdown. In all, 10 tornadoes slammed into North Texas as part of a massive system that spawned severe thunderstorms. ...
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Connor Group sells another Dallas apartment complex
Connor Group has sold its 228-unit Park Gates at City Place in Dallas. The Connor Group has sold a property in Dallas, its second this month. The Centerville-based real estate investment firm sold Park Gates at City Place to an undisclosed buyer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Connor Group had owned the 228-unit community for six years. With this sale, the company now owns and ...
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Cleburne Alvarado ISD Dismissing Early Tuesday Due to Weather
Tuesday morning, some parents in Cleburne dropped off their kids at school in tears, knowing that many parents did the same yesterday in Moore, Okla., just hours before a tornado destroyed two elementary ...
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Next Mac will be made in Texas Tim Cook says
May 21, 2013: Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives on Capitol Hill, in Washington, to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue ...
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Sprinkles readies Dallas cupcake ATM looks at Fort Worth location
Sprinkles Cupcakes is looking to expand to Forth Worth, according to a company spokeswoman. The site would be the company's second North Texas location. Sprinkles Cupcakes has turned its attention to Fort Worth, after spending the past year planning new additions to Dallas, a company spokeswoman said. Joanne Yurich said Sprinkles is looking for sites in Fort Worth for its second North Texas ...
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Texas lawmakers pave way for stronger craft beer industry
The five bills that passed through the Senate provide a new approach to help grow the expanding craft beer industry and update several business practices and regulatory issues in the Alcoholic Beverage Code, according to the Beer Alliance of Texas. Its bottoms up for craft beer brewers in Texas after the House passed a package of bills Monday to help create a more robust craft beer ...
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Texas Hold Em in Tehran - By Yasmin Alem
Gitmo needs $200 million in upgrades; Guardsmen called up in Oklahoma; an ICBM test planned for today; Hagel meets with a Russian; What North Korea could do to the U.S.; Baron, out; and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Central Texas braces for more severe storms
AUSTIN (KXAN) - One day after the same system of storms that battered an Oklahoma City suburb stretched into Texas, a renewed risk of severe weather emerged Tuesday. The entire KXAN viewing area is included in the slight risk area for severe weather from the Storm Prediction Center, while some of the northern neighborhoods have an increased chance for severe weather by being included in the ...
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Texas windstorm bill that extends alternative certification program advances
Thousands of coastal homeowners could get a reprieve on losing their wind and hailstorm insurance if lawmakers can hustle through a bill now working its way through the Texas House of ...
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Dallas Cowboys Tony Romo to miss workouts after cyst removal
Dallas quarterback Tony Romo warms up before the Cowboys' game against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer) IRVING, Texas -- Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will miss at least three weeks of offseason workouts after a procedure to remove a cyst from his back. The team's website reported Tuesday that Romo underwent the procedure last month ...
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Texas House to vote on drug testing for welfare benefits
AUSTIN -- Texas lawmakers will be voting on whether to require some welfare recipients to take drug tests. The Texas House is scheduled to vote on the measure on Tuesday afternoon. Senate Bill 11 would require people enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to answer questions to see if they are at risk of abusing drugs. If they fail the screening, they'll be required to ...
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Fort Worth Police Searching for Missing Boy
The boy's mother told police the boy was told to take out the trash at his home in the 5700 block of Blackmon Court in north Fort Worth. The boy went outside but never came back ...
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Lack of City Council commitment to streetcar?
Fort Worth looks like it may be a long way off until the city has a proper streetcar system if current commitment to the project by local government is anything to go by.
In July of 2008 the City Council of Fort Worth decided that a modern streetcar system might be beneficial to the rapidly growing city, a solution was needed to urban intra-city mass transportation and plans went into the pipeline, but two years on little progress has been made, it seems instead that the city council lacks the commitment to carry out the necessary work to see a streetcar system come to fruition. Read more
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