Wholesale electricity prices soared as the demand rose, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said.
Today's buzz
Fort Worth
- Airlines improved on-time arrivals in May, DOT says
- North Texas flood-control projects clear congressional hurdle
- Legislative report says Perry can issue posthumous pardons
- Out with graffiti, in with a mural
- SMU professor's study on pollution from gas drilling is flawed, state says
- Midlothian residents to be interviewed for study of industrial pollution
Bud Kennedy
Kennedy: The world won't end today, but neither will silly predictions
Don’t believe everything you read in chain e-mails and on the Web.
Dave Lieber
Texas Health Fort Worth hospital is working on couple's billing problem
A couple's $3,000 problem began with a lost insurance card and got worse from there.
Fort Worth
- Study at Dallas hospital to test whether estrogen protects brain after traumatic injury
- Humane Society flooded with calls from people wanting to adopt seized dogs
- Fort Worth Housing Authority to offer nurse-aide training program
- Man convicted in beating of Fort Worth woman with hammer
- Is it OK to 'go' in the ocean? More than half in survey say yes
- 496 dogs seized from Montague County breeding ranch
- Weatherford man pleads guilty to '07 racing fatality
- Texans urged to conserve electricity as mercury climbs
- Former bank teller pleads guilty for role in scheme to defraud military reservists
- Number of suspected drunken-driving arrests during holiday weekend up from last year
- Hurst theater was one of two in the state to show Michael Jackson’s service live
- Kennedy: The world won't end today, but neither will silly predictions
- After 19 years, KXAS/Channel 5 anchorman Mike Snyder leaving 10 p.m. newscast
- Briefs: Trinity River channel being widened as part of Uptown project
- Tandy statue removed from its longtime perch overseeing the Trinity River
- Slain cabdriver had fled Iran to avoid danger
- Slain taxi driver fled Iran to escape religious persecution
- Haltom City woman missing since Saturday found at hospital
- Fort Worth cab holdup could be work of pair accused in taxi driver's death
- Stamp vending machines vanishing as post offices boost automation
- Fort Worth man, grandson killed in big-rig collision on I-35 near Gainesville
- Fort Worth man gets tickets to Michael Jackson memorial, but ...
