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  • Soto Chirinos fill void competently behind the plate

    Email ARLINGTON -- The Rangers went into Monday's game with the Athletics having won nine of their last 13 games. That's significant because those 13 games took place while catcher A.J. Pierzynski was on the disabled list with a strained oblique muscle in his right rib cage. The Rangers were able to survive and thrive because of the work of Geovany Soto and Robinson Chirinos. Soto was ...

  • Prisoner charged in cold case 2011 Grand Prairie murder

    Kenneth Dewayne Vance A 28-year-old man has been charged with a 2011 Grand Prairie murder. Kenneth DeWayne Vance, 28, was formally charged in Tarrant County last week for the murder of Maurice Edwards, police announced Monday. Police found Edwards, who was 27, fatally wounded on Feb. 25, 2011. His car was stolen and later found in Waxahachie. Vance is currently in prison for possession of ...

  • Dallas City Council vote should end legal saga of a man who spent 10 months behind bars after police hid evidence

    (G.J. McCarthy'/Staff photographer) A scheduled vote by the Dallas City Council on Wednesday should once and for all end a six-year-long saga that involved Dallas police officers putting a man behind bars for 10 months for a crime he did not commit. The council will vote to ...

  • Bill to expand Texas craft beer sales distribution rights sent to Gov. Perry

    expanding the sale and distribution rights of craft breweries and brewpubs was given final approval in the Texas House on Monday and sent to the governor. The bills were deal struck between stakeholders that would, among other things, let craft breweries have tap rooms and let brewpubs get their beers ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...


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Movie Review

Cradle Will Rock

At the end of "Cradle Will Rock," a group of actors, vaudeville performers, and dedicated theater goers perform a symbolic funeral procession mourning the death of the Federal Theater Project, an offshoot of the Works Progress Administration program of FDR's New Deal, that was closed down by the government for monetary reasons that conveniently masked political reasons. Holding aloft a casket ... ...

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  • J.C. Penney shareholders re-elect board of directors

    J.C. Penney re-elected its board of directors. J.C. Penney Co. Inc. shareholders officially re-elected the company's board of directors for another year, the company said Monday. The votes, which stockholders cast at the May 17 annual meeting, largely were in favor of the 10 returning board members. William Ackman, Colleen Barrett, Thomas Engibous, Kent Foster, Geraldine Laybourne, Leonard ...

  • Pizza pub to take over Reds Patio Grill in Plano

    Taverna Rossa is scheduled to open in early July in Plano. The pizza pub is designed to be a sister location of McKinney's Cadillac Pizza. The owners of Cadillac Pizza in historic downtown McKinney are in the middle of bringing their pizza concept to Plano. "Taverna Rossa is definitely an extension of Cadillac Pizza," said Preston Lancaster, founder of {33} Restaurant Group. "But ...

  • Silvercars puts all-Audi rental fleet on the road in DFW

    Silvercar offers all Audi A4s for rent at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and on Friday another rental car facility will open at Dallas Love Field. It pays to know the back roads around Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. One missed exit in the DFW Connector highway construction project can really ruin your day. I found myself unable to enter the airport on the north end a few weeks ...

  • Lewis has mixed results in second rehab start

    Currently on a Minor League rehab assignment, Colby Lewis hasn't pitched in the big leagues since last July. (AP) FRISCO, Texas -- Colby Lewis breezed through the first two innings of his rehab start for Double-A Frisco on Monday, retiring all six batters he faced, striking out three of them. The third inning, however, proved much more troublesome for Lewis, who gave up a leadoff home run ...

  • More reverse mortgage lending options on tap for retirees

    Senate Joint Resolution 18 would amend the Texas Constitution to authorize the Reverse Mortgage for Purchase program and would enhance consumer disclosure requirements for all reverse mortgage loans in Texas. The Texas House has approved legislation that would expand the scope of reverse mortgage lending in the state to the benefit of retirees, its supporters claim. Senate Joint Resolution 18 ...

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