Star-telegram.com - Fri Nov 20
By NATHANIEL JONES ARLINGTON - Starting in August 2011, smoking will be banned at the University of Texas at Arlington, President James Spaniolo said Friday.The school is the first four-year college in the region to forbid tobacco use campuswide.'Many of us remember a time when smoking was commonplace in offices, malls, airplanes, public ...
State district judge will spend last year in office as presiding criminal court judgeStar-telegram.com - Fri Nov 20
By MARTHA DELLER FORT WORTH - State District Judge Elizabeth Berry, who is not seeking a third four-year term, will spend her last year in office as a presiding criminal court judge now that her colleagues have voted 12-6 to alter the established leadership rotation among the 20 judges.The job of presiding judge traditionally alternates between ...
Video | Hico honors its heroFort Worth Star-Telegram - Fri Nov 20
Of the thousands of young men and women who have died in the mountains of Afghanistan and on the streets of Iraq, none had a hometown named Hico.
Battle brewing over FW home of well-known educatorWFAA-TV Dallas - Thu Nov 19
A big battle is brewing in Fort Worth over a house that once belonged to a well-known educator with an elementary school, youth center and professorship at the University of Texas named after her -- Hazel Harvey Peace.
Police suspect speed in fatal Fort Worth motorcycle wreckStar-telegram.com - Thu Nov 19
By BILL MILLER Speed may have contributed to the motorcycle wreck that killed an Arlington man around 1 a.m. Wednesday in south Fort Worth, police said Thursday.Jimmy Clements, 35, died 4:28 a.m. at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.
Radnofsky's Claim About Texas Marriages Is Quite A StretchHoustonpress.com - Thu Nov 19
Houston lawyer Barbara Ann Radnofsky, who plans to challenge Greg Abbott as a Democratic candidate in next year's Attorney General race, must feel that the spotlight isn't shining bright enough from her speaking gig at tonight's Tarrant County Young Democrats Gubernatorial Forum at Texas Christian University.
American flight attendants stage 'simulated strike'Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Thu Nov 19
Chanting "What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!," hundreds of American Airlines flight attendants picketed Wednesday at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
Pink Goes Green With Mary KayNBC Dallas - Fort Worth - Wed Nov 18
John Mayer discusses his new single with Taylor Swift and why he thinks everyone was too hard on Kanye West.
For gamers, YuleCon comes earlyStar-telegram.com - Wed Nov 18
Who says you have to go to San Diego for Comic-Con to get your comics fix? You don't even have to leave Tarrant County, thanks to YuleCon, which opens Friday at the Radisson Hotel Fort Worth North-Fossil Creek and runs through Sunday.
New owner of black civic leader's home seeks permission to tear it downStar-telegram.com - Wed Nov 18
By SANDRA BAKER FORT WORTH - The house where civic leader and educator Hazel Harvey Peace lived for most of her adult life could be demolished unless its new owner, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, and the community can work out a solution.The diocese bought the 87-year-old house at 1103 E. Terrell Ave.
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