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Richard "Alan" Wilbourn, 62, his wife, Patricia, and Patricia's mother, Catherine Nelson, died after a three-car accident on Christmas Eve on U.S. Highway 380 in Frisco. Full Story »
Richard "Alan" Wilbourn, 62, his wife, Patricia, and Patricia's mother, Catherine Nelson, died after a three-car accident on Christmas Eve on U.S. Highway 380 in Frisco. Full Story »
Authorities believe an Oak Point man was intoxicated when he fatally shot his 10-year-old daughter in the head inside their home on Christmas Eve. Full Story »
The Richardson 16-year-old was popular at Berkner High School and loved his friends, his parents said. Full Story »
COURTNEY PERRY/DMNThe final frame is Sunday night at the bowling alley that had become a friend to Teresa Works and other regulars. Full Story »
LOUIS DeLUCA/DMN TCU professor Peter Noble shows a course description of the class on the effects of going without a product or service used every day.For the SMU, UNT and TCU students, the concept of making substitutions was a firsthand lesson in how consumers adjusted to the new economic realities. Full Story »
An Army Sgt. and his wife are spending Christmas night with his family after spending Christmas Eve in their car. Full Story »
There is a store in Fort Worth where Santas come to go through the closet and prepare for the holiday season. "There are over 17,000 costumes and pieces in the store," said Claudi Sheddy of Harris Costumes. "There's vintage, thirties, forties, fifties." Full Story »
He's a star forward with the Dallas Mavericks but this Christmas Shawn Marion plays a different role - Santa Claus. Full Story »
A Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport spokesman says 28 departing flights were canceled Christmas Day. Airport spokesman David Magana on Friday blamed the cancellations on planes that never arrived because of Thursday night's winter storm. Full Story »
A late-afternoon accident believed to have been triggered by Thursday's snowstorm has left three people dead in Frisco. Full Story »
1 The Hurt Locker : The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow's personal best. Working from Mark Boal's knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old-school in its construction of suspense and ... Full Story »
Brand control: Self-restraint has never been high on Buzz's list of virtues, as anyone who has ever seen our nicotine-stained fingers and fat gut can attest. Still, we appreciate virtue in others when we (very rarely) see it, so we kind of admire Eric Johnson, the lawyer running in the Dem... Full Story »
How many people in Dallas know that our downtown farmers market is outclassed and out-performed by the farmers market in Detroit? Or that Dallas, which thinks of itself as a kind of capital of free enterprise, is way deeper into government control and regulation of farmers markets than Detroit? Full Story »
Let's see, in the last week we've been blessed with a Dallas Mavericks victory sans Dirk Nowitzki over an elite NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers), a passionate, purposeful Dallas Cowboys win over an elite NFL team (New Orleans Saints)—in December, no less—and a record snowstorm veering o... Full Story »
Dear Mexican: Can you recommend a solid, accessible history of California and Arizona so I can learn what really happened when the U.S. gobbled Aztlán? —La Chica Confundida Dear Wabette: The holistic classic in this genre is Rodolfu Acuña's Occ... Full Story »
Those dreaming of a white Christmas got just what they were asking for Thursday night. Full Story »
Blizzard conditions in Oklahoma pushed snowfall south into North Texas on Christmas Eve. Full Story »
A Parkland Hospital employee is using his unique story to encourage others to become organ donors. Full Story »
Cold weather settles over North Texas after record-setting snowfall. Full Story »
Police say a man fired nearly a dozen bullets at two teenagers firing a paintball gun. Full Story »
A 92-year-old woman is among three people killed in a multi-vehicle crash on Christmas Eve. Full Story »
A man lays across DART tracks on Christmas Eve and is killed by an oncoming train, officials say. Full Story »
A 10-year-old girl is shot in the face and killed inside her home on Christmas Eve, officials say. Full Story »
A 16-year-old Mexican girl was sneaked across the border and forced into a life of sexual abuse and servitude in Texas, police say. Full Story »
You found these 10 Internet stories the most compelling of the year. Full Story »
Today as many families celebrate they'll include a tradition that is the target of a lot of jokes. As part of KERA's annual Holiday Traditions project we again bring you an award-winning story about fruitcake. KERA's Shelley Kofler takes us to the world's largest producing fruitcake factory right here in Texas, where bakers take the slights and ribbing all the way to the bank. Full Story »
A maroon minivan smashed through a back window at Dallas City Hall in what police say was a failed attempt to steal a city credit union ATM. Full Story »
A blizzard blew into Dallas today. But for 500 of the city's thousands of homeless, it's a warm and filling Christmas Eve. KERA's Bill Zeeble explains. Full Story »
One to two inches of snow is expected in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this Christmas Eve. Dennis Cavanaugh, with the National Weather Service, says the last time we had a white Christmas was 1997. A half-inch of snow fell Christmas Day. Full Story »
200 Dallas families celebrated Christmas with the Lt. Governor this morning. KERA's BJ Austin says they lined up at the Heidi Group On West Jefferson in Oak Cliff to get boxes of food, coats and shoes. Full Story »
Renee Hernandez stood in line amid dozens of other families and children waiting to get Christmas presents from the Cowboy Santas program. Full Story »
Sure, frothy, creamy cocktails look tasty, but you might be surprised to know how many calories it contains! A Nutcracker, made with amaretto and frangelico liquor and cream is 300 calories! Full Story »
Latest Health Care Reform Vote Lauren Galbraith is an avid indoor-tanner. She says, "I got my first membership in 9th grade." She's been doing it ever since and jumps into the lighted bed up 2-3 times a week. Galbraith says paying more than the $50 a month she already does would hurt financially. Lauren Galbraith says, "Even though it's only, it can be $4-$8 dollars, here and there, it just ... Full Story »
Airlines to be fined for tarmac delays of more than three hours Diana Duke considers herself lucky because she's never been stranded on a tarmac for more than 90- minutes. Full Story »
Rosalie Linsey stood in her Navarro County yard and broke down in tears. The grandmother is heartbroken for her son who is locked away in jail and for the three motorcyclists he killed in what she says was a tragic accident. "I feel very sorry for my son and for these people. They were just innocent and riding their motorcycles". Full Story »
Teen who was fatally shot is identified A Fort Worth teen accused of breaking into a Forest Hill Full Story »
Five years later, the city is beginning to see the results of that election. Full Story »
The operation should allow him to avoid a lifetime of breathing through a hole in his throat. Full Story »
The snow gave way to sunny skies Christmas Day, but created major headaches before it melted. Full Story »
Data show that there are 10 applicants for every open slot in emergency residency programs. Full Story »
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A city plan to add adult soccer fields and related facilities at North Lakes Park will be reworked in light of engineering conflicts and resistance from nature lovers who said it would destroy wildlife habitat, Denton's parks director said. Emerson Vorel said designs previously shown to the public would be revised after city planners and engineers raised concerns during an internal meeting this ... Full Story »
Except for the bills at its four newest schools, Denton school district's utility costs for 2008-09 decreased by more than $13,000 over the previous fiscal year, a recent energy audit found. District officials say the savings is a sign that efforts in recent years to conserve energy are working. Overall, utilities for the 2008-09 fiscal year cost nearly $7.2 million, the report showed, which was ... Full Story »
An Oak Point man was jailed Friday on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the Christmas Eve shooting death of his 10-year-old daughter. Duke Lawrence Watrous, 36, was being held at the Denton County jail in lieu of $200,000 bail. Investigators believe the shooting was likely an accident, Texas Ranger Tracy Murphree said. Full Story »
An e-mail spread like wildfire through neighborhood groups late Wednesday, alerting Denton residents of plans to build student housing where an enclave of eclectic businesses once stood along Fry and Hickory streets across from the University of North Texas. Full Story »
Israeli-Arab children attend a Christmas parade outside the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. AFP/Jack Guez
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