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An 84-year-old Hurst woman is headed back to a state hospital for the criminally insane after being found incompetent to stand trial on charges that she killed a neighbor in 2003 because she believed the neighbor was trying to steal her boyfriend.

"This is the moment to bring the audience out here," says Diane Simons as she stands on the solidly built stage that will serve as the new home for Hip Pocket Theatre's productions.

A former North Side High School teacher who recently resigned after being caught with a 16-year-old student in a park was arrested Friday night, accused of having sex with the boy.

By MELODY McDONALD Seventeen years ago, Guillermo Ortega sat with his family in an east Fort Worth house and mourned the shooting death of his 15-year-old brother, Ernesto.Police had told the family that Ernesto was killed during a shootout with a man early May 13, 1992, after Ernesto and another youth broke into the man's wife's car.As the family ...

Share + Jul 10, 2009 7:01 pm US/Central Reporting Carol Cavazos FORT WORTH One person is dead and three others are injured after a Fort Worth 'T'A bus rear-ended two cars on Northeast Loop 820.

Simplicity has become a luxury. Get back to basics pronto at the DOUBLE J HACIENDA & ART RANCH 45 minutes west of Fort Worth, where sun-drenched prairies roll up to a 1939 guest ranch designed by famed Dallas architect Charles Dilbeck.

A 34-year-old Fort Worth man was convicted Thursday of beating a young woman repeatedly with a hammer while robbing her family's Fairmont store in September 2006.

One man is hospitalized and another is jailed after an attack with a samurai-style sword Thursday in the Fort Worth suburb of Haltom City.

Originally published July 9, 2009 at 11:17 a.m., updated July 9, 2009 at 12:20 p.m. FORT WORTH, Texas a ' Bell Helicopter and union representatives resumed negotiations Thursday for the second time since nearly 2,500 manufacturing workers went on strike nearly a month ago, company and union officials said.

FORT WORTH - The Fort Worth Housing Authority will begin offering a certified nurse aide training program this summer.The housing authority is using grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for family self-sufficiency to provide the classes.

For the next two weeks, Queer Liberaction moves its Milk Box forum to Fort Worth.

Jamie Fulton, the youthful owner and brewmaster of The Covey restaurant/brewery, thought he'd dash off entries this spring to the Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition, run by the L.A. County Fair organization.

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Mayor Mike Moncrief has asked the U.S. attorney's office to review the results of a Fort Worth police internal-affairs investigation into what happened early Sunday at gay bar near downtown where one customer was injured and six others were arrested.

Nearly a week after a transformer blew, residents at the Jane Lane apartments are still in the dark and in the heat.

When Jonathan Cunningham got the e-mail on his cellphone Sunday night, he thought it was a joke.

The GLBT community will also be holding another rally at the Tarrant County Courthouse on July 12 -- protesting incidents that allegedly took place during the raid of a gay bar.

A 9-year-old Fort Worth girl drowned Saturday while swimming with her 11-year-old sister at Joe Pool Lake.

By the end of the year, 30 homeless veterans with addictions will get help inside the soon-to-be-built Liberty House transitional living center.