UT-Arlington bans smoking effective in August 2011

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The ban takes effect Aug. 1, 2011. The university is the first four-year college in the region to forbid smoking campuswide.Read more

Award-winning singer B.J. Thomas to perform national anthem at Cowboys game

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Cowboys Stadium has a retractable roof, so there’s little chance that fans attending Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins will have to worry about raindrops falling on their heads.Read more

Feathers fly after Arlington Charities' turkey provider comes up short

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Arlington Charities usually provides 800 turkeys, but this year it couldn't.Read more

'Coke' Bowker, 3-time world champion horseshoe thrower

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

He was also a 15-time state champion.Read more

Texas adds 41,700 jobs in October; jobless rate edges up

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The state's jobless rate, however, edged up to 8.3 percent, from 8.2 percent in September.Read more

Perry, Hutchison agree to January North Texas debate

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Perry, Hutchison agree to debate on KERARead more

Some in Arlington neighborhood unhappy with pipeline plans

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The pipeline proposed for southeast Arlington is part of a natural gas gathering system being built by DFW Midstream Services.Read more

Mansfield offers all city employees swine flu vaccinations

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The city emergency management plan focuses on making sure city services are not interrupted.Read more

New diagnostic tool detects breast cancer much earlier

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The imaging tool can find tiny tumors that mammograms sometimes miss.Read more

Arlington's peer mentoring program targets freshmen

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Arlington program is one of four in the nation to get federal money.Read more