• Line of storms crawling in will be areas last best chance of rain for a while

  The National Weather Service reports that a wind gust of 49 mph swept through Stephenville Airport. A line of strong thunderstorms from Granbury to Dublin is also reportedly heading southeast toward ...

• GAO The American Airlines-US Airways merger will reduce competition on more than nonstop routes

  Should we consider the issue of connecting flights when we consider whether a merger will damage competition in the airline industry? Usually, airlines and regulators focus on nonstop flights, where the two merging airlines offer nonstop service between the same two cities. US Airways chairman and CEO Doug Parker and American Airlines officials have repeatedly pointed out that out of 900 routes ...

• Ash Grove Cement will slash emissions in Midlothian close two old kilns and build a new one under U.S. settlement

  Jim Schermbeck, director of the North Texas clean-air group Downwinders at Risk, said he’s glad to see the EPA enforcing the law, but added that the agency should have ordered a test of the strictest emissions control, called selective catalytic reduction, on Ash Grove’s new Midlothian kiln. ';Because DFW hasn’t been able to comply with the Clean Air Act in two decades, ...

• NCTCOG to re-open waiting list for safe room rebate program

  After excessive demand shut it down earlier this month, the North Central Texas Council of Governments is reopening registration for its program to help residents install a tornado safe room in their homes. Registration for the program, which reimburses residents for up to half of the cost of a safe room, started at 1:15 a.m. on June 5, but was forced to close within hours. By 5:30 a.m. that ...

• Keller church severs ties with Boy Scouts over new gay member policy

  No one is predicting the demise of the Boy Scouts of America because it laid out the welcome mat to openly gay youth last month. But there’s no denying that churches and faith-based organizations are filled with angst about the BSA’s new membership policy. The latest incident erupted this week at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Keller, a growing suburban community next to ...

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