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Parkland Memorial Hospitals make-or-break survey is underway

The critical government survey that will determine whether Dallas County’s public hospital retains its state and federal funding is currently underway. The surveyors arrived — unannounced — Monday and began combing through Parkland Memorial Hospital, looking for signs of patient-safety problems that were detected in 2011. The county hospital has been operating under federal ...
Texas congressman Burgess argues that 15-week-old fetuses feel pleasure pain

left-wing media today for suggesting that fetuses as young as 15 weeks old feel pleasure. Self-pleasure. He made the comment during a late-night hearing Monday of the House Rules Committee, on a GOP bill that would ban abortion of fetuses older than 20 weeks. The House is expected to vote today on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. In his previous career as an ...
Mosquito Spraying Working in Dallas County

Dallas County Health Department director Zachary Thompson told commissioners that ground spraying is working in Dallas County. He said where they have sprayed the number of mosquitoes has been cut by about 60 percent. The region was the epicenter of the national outbreak last ...
Youth Minister Among 4 Killed in Fort Worth Crash

Tonight a family and a community is in mourning. We have learned among the 4 victims killed in Saturday night's crash in Fort Worth, was a mother and daughter and also youth minister (insert) Brian ...
Electrical sign short blamed for fire that destroyed part of Lunas Tortillas

a two-alarm blaze destroyed the bakery of Luna's Tortillas on Harry Hines Boulevard. One day later, Dallas Fire-Rescue has released what’s at least a preliminary cause: a short in the sign. The fire has been ruled accidental. The owner of the landmark Dallas eatery doesn’t take issue with the fire department’s findings. But when reached for comment Tuesday morning, ...

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Beloved

"Beloved" is a film that overwhelms. It overwhelms in many ways, some of them good, and some of them bad, and when the final scene fades to black, it's almost hard to know what to feel. Exhausted. Exhilarated. Confused. Unsure. Unsettled. Reawakened. Haunted. Not all of those feelings are particularly comfortable, and I have the notion that some viewers will interpret them as having disliked the m ... ...

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Arlington commuter bus gets final OK from The T ahead of August launch

DART will operate the buses in the Arlington commuter bus service that's now set to launch in August. But the Metropolitan ArlingtonXpress buses will look different that the typical DART bus, such as this one arriving in Mesquite in March ...
No sudden big changes for now-privately owned Dallas Farmers Market

The group that's taken over the downtown farmers market says it's working to make Justin Fourton's Pecan Lodge an anchor of the new Shed ...
Inside Report Cuban continues to make sales pitch to free agents

DALLAS -- While he continues to weigh his options on what to do with the No. 13 selection in the first round of the NBA Draft on June 27, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has also maintained his focus on the start of free agency. Continuing to make his radio rounds to express his sales pitch to free agents before they hit the open market July 1, Cuban made it clear that the Mavericks will ...
Jesse Ventura wants to direct American Sniper defamation lawsuit at Chris Kyles widow

Chris Kyle over an incident in Kyle’s best-selling autobiography did not end with the Navy SEAL’s death in February. Now, the man formerly known as The Body wants to take ...
Woodrow Wilson Sunset top Dallas ISD high schools making big academic gains

Woodrow Wilson and Sunset high schools made the biggest gains on STAAR end-of-course exams in comparison to other non-magnet Dallas ISD campuses. In assessing passing rates in reading I, writing I, algebra I, biology and world geography, Woodrow gained 49.4 points. Sunset High School came in second with a gain of 26.5 points, followed by Bryan Adams High School with a 23.4 gain. These ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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No justice for Jeff Skilling despite sentence reduction

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling will be back in court next week to be resentenced. The hearing will put an end to a 9 year saga of court cases, appeals and re-appeals, one the U.S. Department of Justice will be glad to see the end of.

And rightly so. The resources and money spent by Justice to convict Skilling and keep him behind bars has been extraordinary. The deal however they have struck with Skilling and his lawyers is ludicrous.

Skilling should not have ten years shaved off his 24 year sentence. The remainder of his sentence should be quashed. Instead he has to accept the resentencing deal. He has spent years and plenty of cash, resources and angst in trying to prove he was wrongfully convicted. As his lawyer says there comes a time when he needs some "certainty," and some "finality."

The twenty four years in the first place was a rediculous sentence. In the second place the conviction was not attained in the ordinary course of justice, it was a political statement. Skilling and Lay became the public scapegoats for the systematic fraud at Enron, neither of whom were the perpetrators or the beneficiaries.

What is very disturbing is that during Skilling's trial, prosecutors concealed evidence helpful to the defence. ...