Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The indictments came Aug. 21, about a month after Denton County election officials turned over photographs, voting records and other documents substantiating a complaint that the couple voted using a commercial address, 409 U.S. Highway 377 South, as their residence.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Kellie Hoehn was finishing one last chore before heading to bed early Wednesday when two men in ski masks shattered the glass on the front door of her Blue Mound home and shoved a shotgun in her face. "It was the most horrific thing," she said, "the scariest thing I could ever imagine."The shattering glass woke her 12-year-old son, and Ms. Hoehn told him to grab his 5-year-old sister and hide in his...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS Student governments banding together Student governments from the University of North Texas and other four-year public schools are banding together to promote a platform of student issues. The North Texas Daily reported that the newly formed Texas Student Association met in Austin to start setting up a governing structure. UNT's student government president, Jeff Kline, said...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
DENTON – The FEMA underground command center here buzzed with activity Sunday as federal officials coordinated disaster efforts and took steps to avoid a repeat of the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina. REX C. CURRY/ Special Contributor Larry Mendoza (left) and Paul Krebs, coordinators with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, worked in FEMA's Regional Response Coordination Center in...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
"Being able to pull all of the federal agencies together gives us face-to-face access to the people who have the information at their fingertips or who can get it," said John Gallagher, an American Red Cross official. "We can share it with our agencies and with other agencies so that we're pretty much working off the same page of music."
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
"It literally takes somebody new like myself, when I ran for council four years ago, a good year and a half to two years just to figure things out," said Mr. Melder, mayor of the Houston-area city of Conroe. "By the time you figure out what's going on, you're trying to start worrying about running again."
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Denton police say they have broken up two crime gangs after recovering stolen property and arresting nine suspects, one of them a manager of the University of North Texas basketball team.The two gangs are not believed to have worked together on any of the crimes, which included home-invasion robberies and burglaries, but they do have a tenuous link, police Sgt. Jim Brett said."There is a drug connection...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
New rates will go into effect for the opening segment, and increases will occur beginning Monday for the existing segment between Old Denton Road and Denton Tap Road. The adjusted rates will increase from one to four cents for cars and passenger trucks with TollTags and from two to 12 cents for those without tags.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
New rates will go into effect for the opening segment, and increases will occur beginning Monday for the existing segment between Old Denton Road and Denton Tap Road. The adjusted rates will increase from one to four cents for cars and passenger trucks with TollTags and from two to 12 cents for those without tags.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Denton police say they have broken up two crime gangs after recovering stolen property and arresting nine suspects, one of them a manager of the University of North Texas basketball team. The two gangs are not believed to have worked together on any of the crimes, which included home-invasion robberies and burglaries, but they do have a tenuous link, police Sgt. Jim Brett said. "There is a drug connection...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
LEWISVILLE – Petra, on first sight, was a decided mismatch for your average horse-crazed teenage girl. The tough little mustang was dirty, angry, homesick and slightly prone to bite. The owner of the stable where she was taken to board was dubious. "He said, 'She stays in the stall. She's going to hurt someone,' " said Petra's new owner, Sarah Buchanan. "She looked really wild." But Sarah, at 14, is...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The Regional Transportation Council for the North Central Texas area recently approved spending $191 million to complete Denton County’s 21-mile regional rail system. The new rail line will run along the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas corridor, parallel to Interstate 35E, and will connect with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system at Carrollton’s Trinity Mills station. The new line is expected to open...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) today announced that its affiliates have signed new long-term agreements with major producers in the Barnett Shale
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The Regional Transportation Council last week approved the allocation of $2.5 billion for transportation projects in Denton, Collin, Dallas and Tarrant counties. The projects are the latest to receive funding from the North Texas Tollway Authority's $3.3 billion payment for the right to build and operate State Highway 121 as a toll road.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Similar to the Crime Stoppers program widely used throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Flower Mound's program also relies on anonymous tips and rewards information leading to an arrest and indictment in connection with a serious, high-profile or hard-to-solve crime.
