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  • Calls about suspicious activity led Plano police to investigate prostitution ring chief says

    Plano Police Chief Greg Rushin said Wednesday that his department’s involvement in investigating a major prostitution ring started two years ago with complaints from citizens about suspicious activity at several massage parlors. The department launched an undercover operation and soon learned Dallas had similar suspicions about the storefronts. That initial work two years ago turned into ...

  • Fort Worth police looking for bank robber captured in photos

    Fort Worth police are asking for the public’s help finding an identifying a man who robbed a bank Wednesday. The man, who was captured in surveillance photos, walked into a Woodhaven Bank branch in the 6300 block of North Beach Street shortly around 11 a.m. and demanded money from the teller, police said. He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber was last seen running ...

  • Breaking news Sopranos star James Gandolfini dies in Italy at age 51

    star James Gandofini died today in Italy, where, according to HBO, he was vacationing. His manager confirmed the news to the Associated Press moments ago. ';We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family,'; reads a statement from the network that ...

  • Fort Worth Continues to Drain Water in WNV Watch

    The City of Fort Worth is taking the battle against mosquitoes that can carry West Nile virus to property owners, putting them on notice to eliminate standing ...

  • Dallas council members say some farewells appoint interim city manager

    Mayor Mike Rawlings asked Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm to stay until January to oversee several high-profile projects, including the Trinity River and the Kennedy assassination ...


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District 9 [Blu-Ray]

District 9 [Blu-Ray]

Neill Blokamps feature debut District 9 is a sharp-edged science fiction parable that mixes metaphor and violent action with such dizzying confidence that you leave the theater feeling charged and alive. Its proof positive that a film can dazzle your senses while also wringing your ... ...

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  • 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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