Dallas Sun news Dallas Sun news Rss feed

  • D-FW home foreclosures down almost 40 percent this year

    (DMN files) So far in 2013, Dallas-Fort Worth area home foreclosure filings have dropped by almost 40 percent from where they were in the first six months of 2012. And the number of homes threatened for forced sale by lenders next month is 43 percent below year-ago levels. If the foreclosure activity continues to drop at current levels, 2013 could see the lowest number of home foreclosure ...

  • Dallas-Fort Worth will see potential for severe weather beginning around lunchtime

    were predicting thunderstorms for Dallas-Fort Worth today, though nothing severe. That has changed. ';There are a lot of ingredients in place for this to be a pretty significant weather outbreak,'; says Dan Shoemaker early Tuesday morning. The storms — among them those spinning, tornado-producing super cells — are expected to begin arriving between 10 and 11 a.m. and ...

  • Fort Worth Police Searching for Missing Boy

    The boy's mother told police the boy was told to take out the trash at his home in the 5700 block of Blackmon Court in north Fort Worth. The boy went outside but never came back ...

  • Boeheim on Melos title hopes Not on that team MAY 21

    07:10 AM ET 05.21 | His former head coach has picked a side, and it's squarely in the corner of his one-time star forward. Jim Boeheim maintains little hope that former Syracuse ...

  • Muhammad believes hes the best player in the draft MAY 21

    07:09 AM ET 05.21 | While Shabazz Muhammad's draft stock may be slipping in some circles, he certainly hasn't lost any faith in himself. [The] weeks leading up to the June 27 draft will be about altering negative perceptions about his character and his game. "Being the number one guy, everybody wants you to fall," Muhammad said last week at the NBA draft combine in Chicago. ...


cloudy
Dallas Weather
70.9°F Overcast
Winds: From the South at 19.0 MPH Gusting to 19.0 MPH
Wed
tstorms
86° 64°
Thu
partlycloudy
90° 68°
Fri
partlycloudy
88° 72°
Last Updated on May 21, 8:32 AM CDT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

Häxan (aka Witchcraft Through the Ages) [DVD]

Häxan (aka Witchcraft Through the Ages) [DVD]

Pioneering Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's name doesn't appear in a lot of general film histories, even though it should. He made 14 films from the teens through the early '40s, including his first two, The Mysterious X (1913) and The Night of Revenge (1915), which are as technically innovative and stylistically advanced as anything American directors such as D.W. Griffith a ... ...

On Facebook

  • Lakers chief rivals for Howard MAY 21

    Dwight Howard 's version of The Decision. The pitches he will get after the second leg of this journey, the ones that will likely come from Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, among others (after July 1), will no doubt be very different. And yes, he intends to listen to those pitches, and no, he won't give ...

  • Jackson wants Jack back ... but business is business MAY 21

    Jarrett Jack . "As a coach I value everything that he did for this basketball team and not just on the basketball floor but off. He was incredible, he was a great leader, he as a voice, he was a big time competitor, he was a winner, he plays with an edge. He was instrumental in everything we did. I heard Bob talk about it earlier' being he's a free agent, it's not just about ...

  • Lockheed Martins F-35 will go operational a year early

    The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will go operational in 2016. The Fort Worth-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be in operational use by the U.S. Air Force in mid-2016, a year ahead of schedule. Reuters reported that the Air Force said the plane will operate with a software package similar to that of the U.S. Marine Corp., meaning it will be slightly less capable than. and will ...

  • Vodafone will keep $3.2B payout from Verizone Wireless

    Vodafone owns a 45 percent share of Verizon Wireless. Vodafone plans to keep the $3.2 billion dividend it was paid by Verizon Wireless and will use the cash to offset a drop in its quarterly revenue. Vodafone owns a 45 percent share of Verizon Wireless, with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) owning the other 55 percent. Verizon has operations throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, ...

  • Softbank plans record $3.9B bond sale in pursuit of Sprint bid

    SoftBank plans a $3.9 billion bond issuance while pursuing its bid for Sprint Nextel. SoftBank Corp. said it intends to issue bonds in June to raise $3.9 billion as the Japanese company remains under pressure from Sprint Nextel Corp. shareholders to raise its bid for the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported that Softbank Corp.'s move comes as Sprint ...

More Dallas Sun news