Tarrant County News

By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON - Even if the House votes today on the healthcare overhaul bill, Rep.

BUD KENNEDY One in 5 Tarrant County children might not get to eat at home without help from food stamps.And it's not solely an urban problem.

By NATHANIEL JONES FORT WORTH - A 45-year-old woman and her 3-year-old grandson were fatally injured Friday afternoon in a one-alarm fire at their home in east Fort Worth, officials said.

A federal court decision will allow Tarrant County College students to wear empty holsters during a protest next week over a campus ban on concealed weapons.

Two community college students who favor carrying concealed weapons are challenging their school's restrictions on campus protests, their attorneys announced Thursday.

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If the Tarrant County Elections Department's objective was to discourage voter participation Tuesday, then it succeeded.

Should taxpayer-funded health insurance pay for city employees' sex-change operations? The proposal was one of 20 recommendations presented by a city-sponsored diversity task force formed more than three months ago after local and state police improperly raided a downtown gay bar.

Turning out in expected low numbers Tuesday, Texas voters registered strong approval for 11 state constitutional amendments, including measures to create more elite universities and to bolster protections for property owners, according to incomplete returns.

By DEANNA BOYD FORT WORTH - More than nine months after a Fort Worth bar owner was fatally shot during a robbery, authorities have charged four people, including a waitress at the club.Byron Dealle Roquemore, 27, Tyrone Nathaniel Lee, 26, and the waitress, Ashley D. Odom, 26, were charged Monday in the slaying of Willie Walker, owner of the New ...

A preliminary autopsy report suggests the shooting death of a 35-year-old Buffalo Gap man was an accident, but sheriff's office investigators are awaiting further tests before concluding their investigation.

Tarrant County prosecutors are expected to rest their case in a capital murder trial today after calling the grandson of a 68-year-old Arlington woman who was stabbed to death during what prosecutors have described as a crime spree by a 25-year-old defendant who also killed his uncle and wounded his own girlfriend.

By BILL MILLER A cold front that brought early snow to the Rockies blew into Tarrant County with heavy rains at about 11 a.m. Thursday, but Fort Worth appeared to have been spared some much anticipated severe weather, a forecaster said.A line of broken storms developed overnight in West Texas and lumbered east toward the Metroplex.

A few families camped out overnight to guarantee they would be at the front of the line at Tarrant County's first H1N1 vaccine clinic Friday.

Halloween can be a scary night for children. But this year, it's the parents who are spooked.

People lined up outside in the rain Friday morning for Tarrant County's first swine flu vaccination clinic.

On a day when Dallas and Tarrant counties prepared to dispense precious doses of H1N1 flu vaccine only to those at highest risk, a clinic in Farmers Branch offered the vaccine to anybody with $20 and the patience to wait.

Police issued arrest warrants Thursday for the Arlington couple who made headlines after their northwest Arlington home was spray-painted with a racial slur in 2007.

By AVI SELK and JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News aselk@dallasnews.com aselk@dallasnews.com Dallas and Tarrant county health officials today prepared to dispense thousands of doses of the swine flu vaccine to at-risk members of the public over the next few days.

More than 45,000 at-risk prisoners in Texas will receive the swine flu vaccine, Texas prison officials said.