Debate on more abortion restrictions moves to Texas House today
| |Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
AUSTIN — House supporters of a ban on abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy say they are not giving up even though the Senate dropped the provision from a bill approved late Tuesday.
New housing development coming to area near Cowboys Stadium
| |Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
ARLINGTON — Developer Robert Kembel plans to tear down four apartment complexes and spend up to $160 million.
Aledo teen accused of killing his mom and sister is in capital murder limbo
| |Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
Prosecutors’ attempt to set a constitutional punishment for 17-year-old defendants in capital murder cases keeps hitting roadblock in Texas House.
Judge orders new Texas school finance trial
| |Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
AUSTIN — State District Judge John Dietz likened the state’s school finance case to the soap opera "As the World Turns" when he opened Wednesday’s hearing on whether to reconsider evidence in the trial that concluded in February.
Son of minister killed in wreck focuses on forgiving
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
BURLESON — Evan Jennings, son of Brian Jennings, a youth minister in Burleson, recalls his father as a clown and a caring, devout man. Brian Jennings was one of four people killed Saturday in a multi-vehicle wreck on Burleson-Retta Road.
Union Gospel Mission plans to build facility for homeless families
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
FORT WORTH — The Scott Walker Women and Families Services Building is scheduled to open in fall 2014. It will allow familes to live together as they rebuild their lives, officials say.
Leaner Tanner determined to keep place in Cowboys backfield
| |Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
The third-year running back spent the off-season getting into shape after role reduction in 2012.
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
| |Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.
William Blackmon, developer of carpet-cleaning system, dies at 92
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
FORT WORTH — With his friend Scott Mooring and inventor Bill Wisdom, Mr. Blackmon developed the carpet-cleaning system and founded a company that does business worldwide.
Feds: North Texas prostitution ring dismantled
|Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013
PLANO, Texas — A man is accused of operating nearly a dozen brothels that masqueraded as massage parlors in three North Texas counties as part of a multistate prostitution ring generating more than $1 million since 2010.
