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• Man sentenced for helping kids smoke pot
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  Vanswan Polty receives seven years in a plea deal.

• Grapevine-Colleyville school trustee and others can compare schools online

  Grapevine-Colleyville administrators said it would be time-consuming to compile an accountability report comparing schools over five years.

• SocialEyes: Get ready to shine at the Arlington Parade of lights

  Organizers have more than 70 entries in the Arlington event.

• Decision on pipeline near TCU may be delayed
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  The City Council will likely delay a decision on running a pipeline through a residential area near Texas Christian University, two council members said Monday.

• North Arlington bank robbed at gunpoint

  Police are searching for a man who robbed the Comerica Bank about 1 p.m. Monday.

• $80,000 in computer gear stolen from Alvarado schools

  The burglars struck overnight Nov. 25 and again on Sunday.

• Hundreds expected at Arlington street-sign rally

  The gathering on Tuesday is to show support for a proposal to honor Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez, as well as Muslim and Vietnamese communities.

• Tarrant cities making lists of dos and don'ts for Legislature
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  They'll seek help from Austin on issues like natural gas drilling, mass transit, taxation and public safety.

• Goodfellow Fund helps woman with HIV provide Christmas for three sons

  FORT WORTH — Juliana says her daughter was "a good, healthy girl" once.

• Business back to normal after Arlington bomb scare

  Several police officers and a bomb technician responded, but no device was located in the store at 915 E. Randol Mill Road, a police spokeswoman said.

• Oncor vice president is leading Tarrant County's 2008 United Way campaign

  Mike Guyton has a passion for helping others.

• Arlington weighs increasing trash service fees
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  If approved, new garbage and landfill drop-off rates will take effect in January.

• UTA professor launches a program to help veterans succeed in college

  Alexa Smith-Osborne spent several years taking her father — a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam — to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for routine medical care.

• Winds from cold front to increase fire danger in North Texas

  A cold front with strong, gusty winds will dip into the region today.

• Two-year crackdown on crime in north Arlington gets results

  Officials hope that new businesses will be drawn to the area now that police have run off prostitutes and drug dealers.

• Mac Bernd is trading the schoolwork for hot rods

  The retired Arlington superintendent is no longer in law school.

• Man's job is to light up houses and children's faces

  Brian Ford, 42, spends a lot of time on a ladder. When the Arlington resident isn't installing telephone or computer network systems, he's putting up holiday lights.

• How to protect yourself from a silent killer

  Wintry weather has yet to arrive, but residents should still be aware of carbon monoxide from old or faulty heating systems.

• Goodfellow Fund: She took in brother's three children, then lost her job

  "I am a single mother of five and I recently had to take in my brother’s three children because [the parents] are both in prison. I just lost my job," a woman wrote to the Goodfellow Fund this month. "I’ve been looking for a job, and I’ve had a couple of interviews and with God’s help something will come up."

• Readers rush to aid a family with triplets and not enough food to eat
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  Getting food stamps became difficult, but Watchdog Nation came through.

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