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  • Against attorneys advice man convicted of drowning sons will testify in punishment phase

    A family photo was displayed at the boys' funeral in August 2011. Naim Rasool Muhammad will take the stand this afternoon at his trial where he faces the death penalty for drowning his sons in a smelly, shallow creek. Muhammad told visiting judge Quay Parker outside the jury’s presence that by deciding to testify he meant ';no disrespect'; to his attorneys who have advised ...

  • Bill to provide crisis training for Texas K-12 educators with CHLs goes to governor

    Left to right, Ruby Young Elementary School fourth grade teachers Mike Causey and Lisa Deguchi of DeSoto sign up for gun range time during a concealed handgun licensing class for area teachers and educators in Kennedale, ...

  • SP cuts rating on J.C. Penneys term loan

    Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on J.C. Penney's term loan. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday announced it is lowering the rating it gave Plano-based J.C. Penney's term loan further into junk status, to "B-" from "B." Bloomberg Businessweek cited an AP story that said the service cut the rating because Penney (NYSE: JCP) raised the size of ...

  • Enhanced threat of torndaoes hail and flooding in Dallas area today

    The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed the Dallas area within an enhanced tornado risk zone today (Tuesday May 21). The 10% contour shown on the SPC map here represents a significant tornado threat. Large hail, damaging winds are torrential rain are also in the ...

  • Texas Republican Women endorse driving permits for immigrants

    Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, has taken heat from Republican colleagues for a repeated effort to provide a pathway to driver permitting for illegal immigrants. After various police departments approached him, Cook took on the task of convincing other lawmakers that it made sense to create a special permit. First, it would allow illegal immigrants to obtain car and liability insurance. That ...


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The Red Shoes [DVD]

The Red Shoes [DVD]

When The Red Shoes, the seventh collaboration by the filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in as many years, was released in 1948, it was quite unlike anything audiences had seen before, even though it was constructed of parts that were quite familiar. There had ... ...

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  • Man hospitalized after disturbance shooting in Mesquite apartment complex

    A man was shot multiple times during a disturbance early Tuesday morning in a Mesquite apartment complex. Mesquite police were called at about 2 a.m. to the the Peachtree Apartments in the 1400 block of Peachtree Road. Police had received reports of multiple people shouting and several gunshots, according to department spokesman Brian Parrish. Parrish said several cars were involved with the ...

  • Dallas Police Association furious over bill restricting cellphone tracking

    A bill that would ban police from tracking cellphones without probable cause won preliminary approval by a cheering Texas House on Monday, angering police across the state who were fighting the provision they say will strip them of a valuable life-saving and crime-fighting tool. ';It’s going to kill people,'; said Frederick Frazier,political action committee chairman and first ...

  • Chases Dimon survives vote to split chairman CEO jobs

    Jamie Dimon will remain as CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon will keep his titles of chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. after shareholders voted down a proposal to split the company's top two jobs. The New York Times reported that New York City-based Chase (NYSE: JPM), the nation's largest banking company, also saw its entire board of 11 directors re-elected. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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