Grand Prairie News

In further evidence that Americans are dialing up the fun factor this summer, Six Flags Entertainment Corp. says its second-quarter revenue grew 4% to a record $377 million.

The Focus on Excellence Awards for best financial institution and best mortgage company was claimed for 2014 by Texas Trust Credit Union.

Groups on both sides of the immigration issue took their messages to the streets on Saturday, as plans move forward to locally house children who have been caught unaccompanied at the Mexican border.

"She was 19, she was mentally challenged, she was going to work and these two guys kidnapped her and brought her out here and murdered her," she said.

Rebekka Ramirez watched her three children play in a Grand Prairie park and thought of the tens of thousands of children fleeing their homes in Central America and taking the dangerous journey to the U.S. "I wouldn't want to see my kids like that," said Ramirez But just down the street from the playground, is one of three potential Dallas County ... (more)

Living across the street from Lamar School for the last 30 years, Diana Gorski wonders how her view will change in the next couple of weeks.

At Grand Prairie Independent School District's board meeting Thursday, the board heard public comment on the proposal to house unaccompanied migrant children in its vacant Lamar Alternative School.

A woman used a cellphone tracking device to lead police to a purse snatching suspect and Wednesday a Tarrant County jury sentenced him to 40 years in prison.

Grand Prairie residents will soon learn more about Dallas County's plan to house undocumented children in one of the city's schools.

After lengthy negotiations, Parkland Memorial Hospital leaders approved a 25-year rental agreement Wednesday that allows private construction of a community clinic in South Dallas.

After a hellish year of surgeries, two formerly conjoined twins from Texas celebrated their first birthday this week - with a cake fit for kings.

With Central American kids streaming across Texas' border and nothing but partisan posturing on the horizon, Dallas County, under the leadership of County Judge Clay Jenkins and in partnership with the feds, is preparing to shelter thousands of unaccompanied minors from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, starting as soon as this summer.

Lamar Alternative Education Center will soon house unaccompanied Central American kids, provided the district and city first work out logistics with neighborhood residents.

Bobby Brown has left the current New Edition Tour. The remaining members, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant and Michael Bivins, are continuing including tonight's show in Grand Prairie, TX along with the remaining ten dates of the tour.

Moving 2,000 Central American children to Dallas County in a little more than two weeks still seems optimistic, considering how much work remains.

The man wanted in connection with the July 2 stabbing death of another man was booked into the Dallas County Jail on Thursday.

The county effort would provide temporary housing for about 2,000 children from Mexico and Central America who were caught at the border.

The weekly meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court is packed with residents planning to share their opinions about the county's plan temporarily house about 2,000 children who have entered the country illegally.

Called Grand Prairie, TX, local govt. about their decision to house 2000 illegal immigrants, and I talked to the secretary Lydia and she said that the Fed govt.

Four days after firing off a strong letter to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, city leaders in Grand Prairie are "more at ease" with the possibility of housing hundreds of undocumented and unaccompanied children at a former elementary school.