Highland Park News

Otto Lang and Frank Witchell built this city, more or less. Let's catalog, shall we: the Dallas Power & Light Building , the Lone Star Gas Company HQ , the Sanger Bros.

Here's a daily list of recent activities drawing the attention of North Texas law enforcement.

Dallas police say an armed robber is carjacking men driving expensive cars near Uptown Dallas.

Two weeks from today, we'll all be sitting down to a very special annual meal. These days, Thanksgiving means many things to many people great football, all-you-can-eat pie and gearing up for Black Friday shopping, just to name a few.

It's the dinner rush at Furr's Fresh Buffet, and Tiffany Johnson is making little headway coaxing daughter Addison, 3, into sitting still in her high chair and finishing her chicken and green beans.

East Lake Pet Orphanage's annual Pet Fair - including adoptions, live music and food and drinks - is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Grab your canine companion and head on out Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the 2nd annual Highland Park Village Dog Walk.

Posted on November 5th, 2009 12:30pm by Jason Heid Filed under Business , Local News , Media Sorry we didn't have this up last week, before "Doc" Gallagher was one of the featured speakers at the Jewish Community Center of Dallas' Senior Expo .

Jesuit junior Jordan Spieth, the top-ranked junior golfer in the nation, was named to the Rolex Junior All-America first team for the second consecutive year.

They know the truth: Even looking at the possibility of maybe someday thinking about eventually enacting some sort of voluntary conservation ordinance to preserve houses in one of this area's most historic neighborhoods, that alone will cause home values to plummet.

More than 1,000 protesters stood in the rain Wednesday morning outside New Brunswick High School and Rutgers Hillel to voice opposition to the message of six members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.

The Centennial Marching Festival for North Texas high school marching bands will be 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium, 6950 Stadium Lane in Frisco.

Let me start off by saying, I'm not affiliated with SMU's Greek system. Let me follow my previous statement up by saying, I love Greek life here at SMU.

More students than usual transferred from private schools to the Highland Park school system this year, in what may be a sign of belt-tightening in the Park Cities.

Posters of snow-capped castles, Oktoberfest revelry and Albert Einstein decorate the walls of Claudia Keller's classroom in Frisco.

Wallace Swanson wrestled with the decision to close Camp Wolfgang for months. With donations dwindling and adoptions down, his haven for abandoned German Shepherds was slowly eating away at his personal savings.

Cynthia Martinez, the University Park mother charged with prostitution last month, was arrested again today.

Just popped on the market, 5337 Edmondson is more than a diamond in the rough. First of all, you get location: smack dab in-between the Dallas North Tollway and Inwood Road on Edmondson in West Highland Park - minutes from anything, well inside the loop.

By KIRK DOOLEY Kirk Dooley is a University Park writer. It takes a village. Solving the mystery of the naming of Wentwood Drive in University Park has become a team effort and I think we have our answer.

On Tuesday, October 6, Fairfax Park will look like a mini fairground as the Community League, Crime Watch and Department of Public Safety celebrate America's Night Out Against Crime with Highland Park residents.