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Local news for Fort Worth, TX continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

1 hr ago | KRISTV.COM Corpus Christi

US woman gets asylum in Costa Rica

A Texas woman wanted by the FBI for international parental kidnapping has been awarded asylum in Costa Rica and cannot be extradited to the United States.

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Dallas Metro, Costa Rica, World News, Central America, Tarrant County, TX

9 hrs ago | KRLD NewsRadio 1080

Fort Worth Doctor Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography

The former head of Internal Medicine at John Peter Smith now stands convicted of a federal charge.

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16 hrs ago | Star-telegram.com

Police arrest suspects in copper theft from Fort Worth schools

By SUSAN TALLANTand DIANE SMITH FORT WORTH - With the arrests of three teenagers early Thursday, police and Fort Worth school officials hope they have cracked the case of the copper thefts that have caused ...

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers

20 hrs ago | WXOW-TV La Crosse

Dubuque library agrees to sell art collection

Dubuque's Carnegie-Stout Public Library Board of Trustees has accepted a half million dollar offer for its lauded Curtis Collection of art.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Times Record News

Texas teen who passed pot to toddlers gets 8 years

Demetris McCoy, 18, pleaded guilty to two charges of injury to a child/causing bodily injury and agreed with prosecutors to testify against his co-defendant, Vanswan Polty, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported ...

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Watauga, TX, Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro

NBC5i.com

Regents Fire Baylor President John M. Lilley

The Baylor University board of regents has fired President John M. Lilley , citing his rejection of the board's plan to replace him at the end of his contract next year.

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Times Record News

Texas doctor pleads guilty in child porn case

A former head of the internal medicine department at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Dallas Metro, Southlake, TX

Plano Star Courier

Cigarettes trigger rubbish fire

The Flower Mound Fire Department is reminding residents to be cautious with discarded cigarettes, which are believed to have been the cause of a fire that burned several pieces of cardboard Tuesday in the back ...

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Related Topix: Flower Mound, TX, Natural Disasters, Fire, Wildfire, Weather, Dallas Metro

NBC5i.com

Woman Found Dead In Tanning Bed

Police are investigating after an unidentified woman was found dead in a tanning bed inside a Fort Worth apartment complex.

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Wed Jul 23, 2008

Cleburne Times-Review

Store clerk shot in Alvarado attempted robbery

A store clerk remains in critical condition after being shot in the head early Wednesday morning in Alvarado, Police Chief John Allen said.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Family killed in plane crash is remembered

Friends on Sunday mourned the deaths of John and Cyndy Newman and their son, J.W. Newman, after their single-engine plane crashed Saturday in rural Kaufman County.

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Related Topix: Kaufman County, TX, Air Accidents, Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro

Fort Collins Coloradoan

Shiner' Bohemian Black Lager a highlight of the year

There might be those who think I have some secret vault that contains every beer made in the world that I can reach into at leisure.

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Dallas Metro, Beer, Drink

NBC5i.com

IDs On 3 Killed In Fiery Kaufman County Plane Crash

Identities have been released on three members of a Fort Worth family who died when their single-engine plane crashed and burned near Kemp.

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Related Topix: Kaufman County, TX, Air Accidents, Dallas Metro, Kemp, TX

Tue Jul 22, 2008

KHOU-TV Houston

Woman found dead inside tanning bed

A 43-year-old Fort Worth woman was found dead lying face down in a tanning bed inside her apartment Monday afternoon, authorities said.

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Related Topix: Tarrant County, TX

CBS 11

OMG! Jonas Brothers Buying House In Westlake

Tarrant County records indicate that the three band members granted power of attorney to their mother, Denise Jonas, to buy a $2.8 million, six-bedroom house in Vaquero, a gated community in Westlake.

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Tarrant County, TX, Jonas Brothers, Home Listing, Home, Westlake, TX, Entertainment

KIRO-TV Seattle

Crews Try To Rescue Man From Well Shaft

Rescue crews are working to free a man trapped in a narrow gas well shaft south of Cresson near the Hood-Johnson county line in Texas.

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Related Topix: Cresson, TX, Johnson County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Fort Worth Metro

Star Community Newspapers

Regional mobility hinges on light rail

It's going to cost nearly $6 billion to build and maintain a regional rail system, according to information from the Regional Transportation Council presented in a public meeting Thursday in Denton.

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Related Topix: Denton County, TX, Texas, Rockwall, TX, Dallas Metro

Mon Jul 21, 2008

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

North Richland Hills man pleads guilty to killing wife

Donna and Freddie Willhite in a photo from the 1970s or '80s. Crime Time blog NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- A retired ironworker who told a 911 dispatcher last year that he had shot his wife because she had ridiculed ...

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro, Richland Hills, TX, North Richland Hills, TX, Violent Crime

Denton Record-Chronicle

Construction starts on office project near Medical City in North Dallas 2:31 PM CT

Construction has begun on a medical office project located near North Dallas' Medical City complex.

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Related Topix: University of Nebraska System, Medical Center (University of Nebraska System), Dallas (University of Texas System), Dallas, TX, University of Texas System

WTVF Nashville

Marion Jones Asks For Sentence To Be Commuted

Disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones has asked President Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro

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Fort Worth, Texas is located in Tarrant County and is part of the Fort Worth Metro Area. Zip codes in Fort Worth, TX include 76106, 76107, and 76104.

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