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DALLAS - Every year dozens of murders and rapes go without prosecution, not because an arrest hasn't been made, but because the accused is a Mexican citizen. Full Story »

Saturday was supposed to be the big day for the Grand Prairie Youth Football Association. A full slate of championship games was scheduled for each of its divisions along with a cheerleading competition. Full Story »

City-owned Reunion Arena has been undergoing demolition since April, and the final parts of the building will come down beginning in December. BACKGROUND : The project's completion has been delayed twice because of complications in the demolition process. Full Story »

A former law student and beauty queen from Carrollton charged in the assault of an ex-boyfriend will be tried in Pima County, Ariz. Superior Court Judge Richard Nichols ruled Monday against a defense motion to move Kumari Fulbright's trial out of the county. Full Story »

Jewell Harris was drafted and he went to Vietnam and he did what he had to do and got wounded, and that's all right with him. But in the 35 years since, Harris has been haunted by the notion that Uncle Sam hadn't played straight with him. Full Story »

BLAND, Texas - Parents at one North Texas school district are blasting school administrators for allowing children to bring knives to school. Full Story »

DALLAS — Scrubs disguise what 28-year old Nancy Arias doesn't want you see. "I like to wear scrubs because it hides the problem areas," says Arias, "You don't see it as much as when you wear your regular clothes — where you come out looking like a muffin." Full Story »

The last words 81-year-old Cleo Aldridge remembers saying before she blacked out were to her dog on an early Sunday morning. "Good morning baby," she said. "You ready to get up?" Full Story »

RICHARDSON — Victim Relief Ministries is a team of chaplains on standby again, after three days of spiritual and emotional care at Fort Hood. The call for help came in the middle of an emergency response conference called “Living Ready.” Full Story »

DALLAS — Dallas police are investigating a fatal accident that happened at about 2 a.m. Monday on southbound Stemmons Freeway at R.L. Thornton Freeway. Full Story »

DALLAS — Health officials on Monday reported Dallas County's 17th death linked to the swine flu virus. Dallas County Health and Human Services said a 51-year-old Dallas County man who died recently was infected with H1N1. The patient was said to have had underlying medical conditions. Full Story »

WYLIE — Four Wylie schools were placed on lockdown Monday morning because of a police standoff nearby. The schools are: Dodd Elementary; Birmingham Elementary; Davis Intermediate; and McMillan Junior High. Full Story »

DALLAS — Dozens of Dallas firefighters helped evacuate part of a North Dallas nursing home Monday morning after a smoky fire triggered by burning popcorn broke out in one of the rooms. Full Story »

Heroes need sidekicks, and Army Sgt. Clay Rankin's was just named 2009 Dog of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Full Story »

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers. Full Story »

By THEODORE KIM and MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News / The Dallas Morning News Valerie Wigglesworth contributed to this story. Plano leaders are at odds over what to do with a sizable downtown development fund that is spawning far more money than originally thought. Full Story »

Parents at the McKinney school district's curriculum information night were talking condoms. And some were frustrated that district officials weren't. Full Story »

Agricultural science education is thriving in unexpected places: the state's urban and suburban school districts. Full Story »

WYLIE - Police say a 28-year-old Wylie man was beaten to death by a group of teens all because he asked them to stop speeding near his home. Since June, Jonathan Bird lived on South Third Street with his fiancé, Coti Duer, and cared for her three kids like they were his own. Full Story »

DALLAS — A parking lot holdup turned deadly in East Dallas late Saturday night. Dallas police spokesman Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse said Francisco Garcia and a friend were outside an apartment in the 2200 block of Bennett Avenue around 10:25 p.m. when a man walked up and asked for a light. Full Story »

Area 16 PTA will host a roundtable discussion from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Central Elementary, 400 High School Drive in Lewisville. The event is to bridge cultures and overcome challenges to parent involvement. A special focus will be on fathers, language and single parents. Full Story »

This summer, the city of Dallas issued a challenge to North Texas photographers: Take a fresh look at one of the city's most overlooked resources.The result? About 350 entries in the first Trinity River Photo Contest. Full Story »

Every time Michael O'Malley watches Big Bird, Oscar and the rest of the Sesame Street gang, it's like attending a reunion. As a kid in the early '70s, he grew up with the show. Now 40, he's watching the program all over again, this time with his children. Full Story »

Investigators say a house fire in Fort Worth killed a woman and her 3-year-old grandson Friday. The Tarrant County medical examiner's office identified the grandmother as Lavonda Anderson, 45. Her grandson was Maurice Anderson. Full Story »

By ED TIMMS / The Dallas Morning News etimms@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News s Jessica Meyers, Gregg Jones and Ryan McNeill and senior research librarian Molly Motley Blythe contributed to this report. Full Story »