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  • Eric Cowan becomes Dallas ISDs new board president

    Eric Cowan, Dallas ISD board president Trustee Eric Cowan became Dallas ISD’s new board president on Thursday, with trustees offering no other nominee for the post. The board president is the most powerful position on the school board. The person helps set the board's meeting agenda, makes committee chair appointments and presides over board meetings. Cowan, a trustee since 2010, ...

  • Cowboys Josh Brent facing new claims that could cost him his bond

    Dallas Cowboys lineman Joshua Brent could be in trouble again. The Dallas County District Attorney’s office has filed a motion to revoke Brent’s bond on intoxication manslaughter charges, alleging that Brent violated his bond by either drinking alcohol or being around it. Brent, 25, was indicted for a December drinking and driving one-car crash in Irving that left his best friend ...

  • Widow of fallen Dallas firefighter thanks community for support since fatal blaze

    Stanley A. Wilson of Dallas Fire-Rescue (File/courtesy photo). The widow of fallen Dallas firefighter Stanley Wilson thanked the community for their support in a statement to the media Thursday. Jenny Wilson and her 16-year-old son Noah both gave brief on-camera statements to the news media. Both honored Wilson, 51, whodied in ...

  • Boys Scouts vote to end ban on gay members

    The Boy Scouts of America has voted to end its ban on gay members. The National Executive Committee for the Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift the ban on gay members in the Irving-based organization in a meeting at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine. The organization said that 61 percent of the roughly 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts National Council voted to end the prohibition, ...

  • Lakers Kupchak thinks Dwight Howard can play nice with coach MAY 23

    06:30 PM ET 05.23 | Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak believes Dwight Howard will take a return to Los Angeles seriously. The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports that Howard is also interested in Dallas, Houston, Golden State and Atlanta as free agency destinations. But he will also consider the Lakers, whose coach, Mike D'Antoni, is rumored to have rubbed Howard the wrong way. Kupchak ...


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Movie Review

Racing With the Moon [DVD]

Racing With the Moon [DVD]

Starring in Racing With the Moon marked a major shift for Sean Penn, who was coming off roles as a juvenile delinquent prison inmate in 1983s Bad Boys and everyones favorite blissed-out stoner Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). In Racing With the Moon, Richard Benjamins nostalgic ode to young love blossoming beneath the crushing specter of war, Penn di ... ...

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  • Nate McMillan done as Team USA assistant MAY 23

    05:58 PM ET 05.23 | On the same day coach Mike Krzyzewski announced he would return to coach Team USA, his assistant, Nate McMillan, said he won't. McMillan is currently searching for a head coaching opportunity that would fit him. ...

  • Kobe Bryant ties records for most All-NBA selections MAY 23

    06:11 PM ET 05.23 | Kobe Bryant may not have a chance to usurp Michael Jordan for greatest ever, but he's in the running for having the greatest longevity. The Los Angeles Lakers guard was named to the All-NBA First Team on Thursday, the 11th time he's appeared on the first team and the 15th time he's been on the list overall. That ties him with former Utah Jazz forward Karl ...

  • TxDOT to host public meetings on possible managed toll lanes on Highway 75 in Collin County

    (Louis DeLuca/Staff photographer) If it seems like U.S. Highway 75 in Collin County’s always under construction, you’re not far off. Only a few years after the expansion of North Central Expressway and the creation of the High Five Interchange, there are myriad to-do’s still on the to-do list, ...

  • Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek

    DALLAS -; A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on ...

  • Velocis buys Uptown Dallas office tower

    Dallas-based real estate investment firm Velocis has purchased 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Dallas-based real estate investment fund Velocis, along with its investors, has bought 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas for an undisclosed sum. The 145,610-square-foot Class A office building is in a highly-desired submarket, where tenants can walk to a number of amenities, said Mike Lewis, ...

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