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  • Veteran firefighter killed in huge Dallas condo fire

    A huge six-alarm fire killed a veteran fire fighter and destroyed at least 24 different housing units in the early morning hours of May 20th in a Dallas, Texas complex of condos. (Wikimedia/Wikimedia ...

  • Parker County grass fire smokes out marijuana grow house

    (Parker County Sheriff's Office) Parker County rescue workers say they went to William Joseph McCue’s house Sunday evening to warn him about a nearby grass and structure fire that was threatening to burn down his house. Instead, they wound up taking him to jail for running a marijuana grow operation. According to Parker County Deputy Danie Huffman, the accidental pot bust happened ...

  • Dallas Firefighter Killed in the Line of Duty www.privateofficer.com

    One firefighter was killed and two others were injured in a six-alarm blaze that has devoured at least 24 units at the Hearthwood North Condominiums at 12363 Abrams Road, near LBJ Freeway overnight. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the firefighter, who has been identified as 28-year department veteran Stanley Wilson, radioed in shortly before 5:30 a.m. that he was trapped and lost, ...

  • Volatile atmosphere brings chance of severe weather to North Texas

    Ted Ryan, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, wants to be very clear about this: The chance of severe weather in Dallas-Fort Worth today is small — 20 to 30 percent at best. But, he says, ';A chance for something bad is there.'; Which is why, he says, ';We’d rather err on the side of caution and tell people they need to be on the lookout ...

  • Dwight Howard Report Links Big Man to Houston Rockets or Dallas Mavericks

    Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard (12) is defended by Utah Jazz center Al Jefferson during the first half of their NBA basketball game in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7, ...


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Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) [DVD]

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) [DVD]

The key to Vittorio De Sicas neorealist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), and to a large extent neorealism in general, finds its summation in a single line of dialogue. The films protagonist, Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), is at the police stat ... ...

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  • Seattles Best Coffee opens 10 DFW area drive-throughs

    Seattle's Best Coffee is opening 10 new drive-throughs today, including one off of Skillman St. Seattle's Best Coffee LLC is launching its new drive-through concept with Monday's opening of 10 locations across the Dallas area. The locations are the first Seattles Best Coffee shops in North Texas. The company, which is a featured brand of Starbucks Corp., has 65 caf-style locations ...

  • Drunken driving suspect hits teen walking on dark bridge in Grand Prairie

    Police say a drunken driver struck and killed a 19-year-old man who was walking on a dark road in Grand Prairie late Sunday. The victim, who has not been identified, was wearing headphones and dark clothes shortly before 9:30 p.m. while walking on a bridge on Corn Valley Road just north of Kirby Creek Drive. A Dodge pickup hit the teen from behind, knocking him over a guardrail and into a creek ...

  • Man convicted of 1985 rape listed as most-wanted sex offender arrested in Dallas

    the Texas Department of Public Safety added Willie L. Sullivan to its list of the 10 most-wanted sex offenders . This morning, the DPS sends word that Sullivan is back in custody. Sullivan, a 57-year-old with a lengthy criminal record that dates back 32 years, was wanted for failing to register as a sex offender and for violating his parole, after he was charged with burglarizing a ...

  • Chesapeakes new CEO once oversaw Eagle Ford shale for Anadarko Video

    May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports on today's "Top Headlines." She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." Robert Douglas Doug Lawler, senior vice president of international and deepwater operations for Anadarko Petroleum Corp., will become CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. on June 17. From shale plays to offshore drilling, Robert Douglas Lawler ...

  • Samsung offers $800K to developers for Galaxy-specific apps

    Samsung wants Galaxy-specific apps to help set the phone apart from other Android-based devices. Samsung Electronics is offering third-party developers $800,000 in prize money for Galaxy-specific apps as the Korean smartphone maker ramps up its efforts to compete with Apple's iPhone. Apple Insider reported that the competition will have 10 winners and that the prize money will be distributed ...

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