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  • Enhanced threat of torndaoes hail and flooding in Dallas area today

    The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed the Dallas area within an enhanced tornado risk zone today (Tuesday May 21). The 10% contour shown on the SPC map here represents a significant tornado threat. Large hail, damaging winds are torrential rain are also in the ...

  • Texas Republican Women endorse driving permits for immigrants

    Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, has taken heat from Republican colleagues for a repeated effort to provide a pathway to driver permitting for illegal immigrants. After various police departments approached him, Cook took on the task of convincing other lawmakers that it made sense to create a special permit. First, it would allow illegal immigrants to obtain car and liability insurance. That ...

  • Man hospitalized after disturbance shooting in Mesquite apartment complex

    A man was shot multiple times during a disturbance early Tuesday morning in a Mesquite apartment complex. Mesquite police were called at about 2 a.m. to the the Peachtree Apartments in the 1400 block of Peachtree Road. Police had received reports of multiple people shouting and several gunshots, according to department spokesman Brian Parrish. Parrish said several cars were involved with the ...

  • Dallas Police Association furious over bill restricting cellphone tracking

    A bill that would ban police from tracking cellphones without probable cause won preliminary approval by a cheering Texas House on Monday, angering police across the state who were fighting the provision they say will strip them of a valuable life-saving and crime-fighting tool. ';It’s going to kill people,'; said Frederick Frazier,political action committee chairman and first ...

  • Sprinkles readies Dallas cupcake ATM looks at Fort Worth location

    Sprinkles Cupcakes is looking to expand to Forth Worth, according to a company spokeswoman. The site would be the company's second North Texas location. Sprinkles Cupcakes has turned its attention to Fort Worth, after spending the past year planning new additions to Dallas, a company spokeswoman said. Joanne Yurich said Sprinkles is looking for sites in Fort Worth for its second North Texas ...


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Movie Review

The Red Shoes [DVD]

The Red Shoes [DVD]

When The Red Shoes, the seventh collaboration by the filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in as many years, was released in 1948, it was quite unlike anything audiences had seen before, even though it was constructed of parts that were quite familiar. There had ... ...

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  • Time running out for state water plan in Austin

    The Texas Legislature has until Monday to approve a resolution that would put a constitutional amendment on the ballot for November. Voters would then decide whether to take $2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to pay for water infrastructure and conservation projects. The first of two bills that deal with the states water infrastructure got final approval from the Texas Legislature ...

  • Back surgery has Tony Romo out of Cowboys practices

    Tony Romo had a cyst removed from his back last month. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo won't be on the field Tuesday when off-season workouts begin for the team at its Valley Ranch facility in Irving. The team said that Romo, who signed a $108 million contract extension in March, will be getting time to heal after he had a troublesome cyst removed last month from his back. The Cowboys ...

  • ATT unlimited data customers to get video calling ability

    Apple's FaceTime app is a popular way for video calling on the iPhone. Dallas-based AT&T Inc.'s ban on its unlimited data iPhone users from making calls using the phone's popular FaceTime feature soon may be over. The Los Angeles Times reported that AT&T will allow software and smartphone makers the ability to enable video calling for unlimited data customers on preinstalled apps on ...

  • Sprint boosts offer for Clearwire to $10.7B

    Sprint already is the majority owner of Clearwire Corp., but it wants to buy the remaining shares. Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday boosted its offer for Clearwire Corp. by 14 percent to about $10.7 billion. Sprint already is the majority owner of Clearwire. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint (NYSE: S) raised its offer from $2.97 per share to $3.40 per share in an attempt to win over ...

  • Construction progresses at Exxon Mobils Houston campus

    Miscellaneous views of the new Exxon Mobil campus under construction in Spring, Texas. Friday, April 12, 2013. (Photo by Michael Stravato) Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. is building a 20-building campus on 385 acres in north Houston, and according to the Houston Business Journal, it's one of the largest construction projects under way in the United States. The HBJ got a sneak peek at the ...

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