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  • Texas Rangers give Mitch Moreland start in No. 2 spot in lineup

    – Texas Rangers 1B Mitch Moreland, who leads the team in on-base-plus slugging percentage for May, is getting a rare bump to the top half of the Rangers lineup Friday against Seattle LHP Joe Saunders. Moreland will hit in the No. 2 spot with OF David Murphy sitting the game out. It is his just Moreland’s sixth-ever start in a spot in the top third of the lineup. Moreland last batted ...

  • Texas Senate confirms all three UT Board of Regents appointees

    A sleepy Senate confirmed Gov. Rick Perry’s three nominees for the University of Texas Board of Regents on Friday. After a lengthy hearing on Monday and 30 minutes of character-praising speeches Friday, the Senate accepted the nominations of businessman Jeff Hildebrand, Judge Ernest Aliseda and returning Regent Paul Foster 30-1 in three separate votes. The lone wolf was Sen. John ...

  • Tech Wildcatters hosts largest program in its 5-year history

    San Francisco residents Ben Jorgensen, left, and David Martin of Klick Push chose to participate in the Tech Wildcatters seed accelerator program in Dallas because they felt the community was more willing to foster the tech startup. Dallas Tech Wildcatters this week hosted its largest program since the group's inception five years ago. The seed accelerator, which works to develop companies, ...

  • Texas lawmakers honor Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm

    Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm stands on the dais in the Texas House as lawmakers honor her in advance of her retirement. Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm was honored in the Texas House on Friday. Suhm is retiring in a few months after an eight-year career as city manager. ';Mary has always been a forward thinker, and she has always had an open and inquiring mind, and has always sought balance ...

  • In Moore Okla. lingering shock represents the first stage of grief

    (Marc Ramirez) Where once was a ceiling, there is now sky: Monday’s deadly tornado tore the roof off of the Osborne family home in Moore, Okla., and laid waste to an entire neighborhood. The twister’s 17-mile path of destruction killed 24 and injured 350, and people like the Osbornes are still dealing with the shock. In the bedroom, shown above, Ben Osborne and wife Deidra found the ...


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Movie Review

Excess Baggage

It has long been said that kids will do anything to get a little attention, and 18-year-old Emily Hope, the heroine of "Excess Baggage" played by Alicia Silverstone, is a perfect example. Of course, she can't really be blamed. Her filthy rich and icily distance father, Alexander T. Hope (Jack Thompson), pays her far less attention than any of his illegal business dealings. He's the kind of ... ...

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  • Investigation into blaze that killed Dallas firefighter continues

    Firefighters salute as the body of a fallen firefighter is carried from the scene of a six-alarm fire that devoured 24 units at the Hearthwood North Condominiums. (Sonya Hebert-Schwartz/The Dallas Morning News) Dallas firefighter Stanley Wilson, killed Monday morning ...

  • Suspect in Fort Worth sex assault of a child arrested after police chase into Oak Cliff

    The driver has stopped and is now on the ground being cuffed by police. Dallas police and Dallas County Sheriff’s Department deputies are on the scene, along with Fort Worth ...

  • Driver Leads Fort Worth Police on Chase into Dallas

    The chase began at about 3:15 p.m. when the driver of the white SUV refused to stop for police. The driver then continued east down Interstate 30 into Dallas before exiting the highway at Beckley ...

  • Tony Parkers calf is doing just fine MAY 24

    Golden State Warriors and underwent an MRI on Thursday to check on the recovery. The results? His calf seems to be recovering just fine and there will be no limitation on his workload in Game 3 on Saturday. Parker said that he's feeling better and believes he'll be fine on ...

  • Texas Senate passes CPRIT reforms sends bill to governor

    Legislation to clean up the state’s troubled cancer-fighting agency was finally approved and sent to the governor Friday by the Senate. The measure by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, would restructure the leadership of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and impose new conflict-of-interest prohibitions on agency officials, donors and grant recipients. The legislation ...

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