Excitement is increasing as Saturday's playoff football game between Ryan and Guyer high schools at Denton's C.H. Collins Athletic Complex approaches. Denton school district athletic director Ken Purcell said Thursday that more than 6,500 tickets to the 2 p.m. Class 4A Division I Region 1 championship game were sold in the first 48 hours after tickets went on sale. Full Story »
DRC/David Minton Dozens of people wait to get their pictures taken with Santa at the 21st annual Holiday Lighting Festival on Thursday at the downtown Denton Square.The lyrics of "Winter Wonderland" rang out from speakers Thursday as final preparations were made for the 21st annual Denton Holiday Lighting Festival on the Square. Booths were set up around the Courthouse on the Square, and wreaths ... Full Story »
Denton kindergartner Gilbert Leal Jr. will be featured on a float in the 22nd annual Capital One Bank Adolphus Children's Parade in Dallas on Saturday. The parade benefits Children's Medical Center Dallas , where 5-year-old Gilbert receives treatment for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis - a rare respiratory disease - and subglottic stenosis, which causes scarring to the vocal chords. Full Story »
During rehearsals for this weekend's holiday show, young actors with Denton Community Theatre have had their feet planted on the Campus Theatre stage. In their imaginations, though, the performers are in the mountains of Virginia, filling a well-worn, Depression-era farmhouse with love. Full Story »
Denton County sheriff's deputies arrested a man on a charge of aggravated robbery Tuesday after listening to his story and comparing it with the complaint of a woman who said he robbed her. Full Story »
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DRC/Barron Ludlum Pansies on the Square in downtown Denton are covered with snow Wednesday morning.A thin layer of snow clung to tin roofs, car trunks and hayfield stubble Wednesday morning, surprising residents - and meteorologists - with a white and wintry welcome. Denton resident Corey Duran wasn't expecting to see snow when he walked outside Wednesday. He expected the day to be cold ... Full Story »
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Police have charged three more members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at the University of North Texas in an alleged hazing incident. The charges followed the UNT Police Department's investigation into the alleged hazing of 12 new fraternity pledges in October. Full Story »
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A 21-year-old Denton woman reported she was assaulted by a man posing as a massage student Monday. The man knocked on the woman's front door on Stella Street, telling her he was a student from a massage school in Lewisville and he needed massage field hours for a class, according to a police report. Full Story »
Denton city leaders are weighing tougher restrictions on natural gas drilling in the wake of public anger over pending wells at the Rayzor Ranch development. The City Council met Tuesday afternoon to begin talks on how the city could better protect residents from the negative effects of drilling, including the potential for short- and long-term environmental harm. Council members did not make ... Full Story »
A thin layer of snow clung to tin roofs, car trunks and hayfield stubble Wednesday morning, surprising residents - and meteorologists -- with a white and wintry welcome. Denton resident Corey Duran wasn't expecting to see snow when he walked outside Wednesday. He expected the day to be cold, "drizzly" and a "mundane kind of day." Full Story »
Denton city leaders on Tuesday delayed two key votes related to the Denton County Transportation Authority's passenger rail project, pushing the decisions closer to a critical mid-December deadline. Full Story »
Denton police have arrested a man suspected of robbing a woman at knifepoint and stealing her car and purse early Monday in the 1200 block of South Avenue A. Full Story »
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County commissioners on Tuesday appointed County Judge Mary Horn to sit on the committee that is negotiating a new contract for transportation consultant John Polster and his firm. Horn clashed with Precinct 1 Commissioner Hugh Coleman, who has opposed contracting with Polster, during Tuesday's meeting. Full Story »
The owner of a Denton child care center is scheduled to be back in criminal court Dec. 16 for arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of making a false report to police after a 4-month-old baby died in her care in January. Denton police first arrested Debra Lynn Turney, 52, in March on a felony charge of endangering a child. Turney owned the now-closed 2 Kool 4 School Kids Club, a home-based day ... Full Story »
DRC/Al Key Workers begin construction on a new Bolivar Water Supply Corp. facility on FM455 west of Sanger on Monday.The Bolivar Water Supply Corp., which serves a large part of rural western Denton County and parts of Cooke and Wise counties, is building a new office. The $1 million complex, on FM455 west of Sanger, is scheduled to be completed in July. Office manager Polly Kruger said the 5 ... Full Story »
DRC/Barron Ludlum A worker helps put up a sound barrier Monday at a gas well site at the Rayzor Ranch development in west Denton.Construction is under way on a gas well site at Denton's Rayzor Ranch development, after months of public debate and legal wrangling. Range Production Co. started work on the site last week after clearing a series of legal, political and regulatory hurdles. Full Story »
DISH - Officials with the Environmental Injury Epidemiology and Toxicology Unit of the Texas Department of State Health Services will investigate health concerns related to natural gas production here, probably early next year. Health concerns were raised in October after the town of Dish commissioned an air quality study and scientists found toxins at troubling levels. Full Story »
A group of fourth- and fifth-grade students at Newton Rayzor Elementary School completed a monthlong project Monday that encouraged them to use their imaginations in writing their own novels. Full Story »
A 66-year-old Denton man died Sunday from the West Nile virus, according to his family. Charlie Mac Sweatman had been sick for nine weeks, said his son Gary. He speculated that his father was bitten by an infected mosquito on one of the many evenings he would sit on the back porch of his Bernard Street home to smoke. Full Story »
A young girl looks at a piece by artist Jorge Pineda at the opening of "The Global Caribbean" exhibit in Miami. AP/Alan Diaz
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