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Frisco Good Kid: Merida Thurmon of Wakeland High School

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday

The best advice I ever received was: Nothing in life comes easy, and you have to work for everything you get.

2 Frisco students suspended for comments on Facebook page threatening teacher

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Two Frisco middle school students were suspended and several others received warnings after threatening their teacher on Facebook, a social networking Web site. Someone notified Staley Middle School officials earlier in the week about the menacing comments, said Rick Burnett, the district's executive director of Student Services. Also Online The page, which disappeared by Wednesday, read, "Join...

Pulitzer finalist examines Frisco's Christmases as an American microcosm in 'Tinsel'

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

To some extent, it was once how he lived. The 41-year-old Oklahoma City native has knocked elbows with Hollywood on Oscar night and gets hotel-room access to celebrities such as Bob Barker and Nicole Kidman. But he's enamored with strip malls, insists on drive-through stops at Taco Bueno, and speeds up the Dallas North Tollway just to see where it goes.

Man jailed in Frisco boy's apparent 'cheese' death

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Dillon went with a friend to Navarro's house to buy Xanax but instead paid $20 for cheese heroin. He went home but returned with two friends to trade an Xbox 360 and a digital camera for more drugs, according to the affidavit. The affidavit stated that Dillon bought heroin mixed with Tylenol and Xanax.

Frisco-based financier charged in scheme that victimized Roger Staubach's son

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

Collin County authorities Friday arrested a Frisco-based financier after a grand jury indicted him on money laundering and theft charges related to football great Roger Staubach’s son, Jeffrey R. Staubach. Thomas L. Irby was taken into custody and will face the criminal indictments that allege he stole a total of $600,000 from Staubach as part of an investment scheme. Irby and his company, Titan...

Frisco battery recycler facing tougher lead pollution standards won't add production

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Exide Technologies Inc. said Friday that it is withdrawing its request to increase production at its battery recycling plant in Frisco.The withdrawal came three days after the Frisco City Council voted unanimously to ask the company to withdraw the application with state regulators because of concerns related to toxic lead emissions. That vote Tuesday followed a Dallas Morning News story Sunday on...

Timeline on Exide Technologies Inc. application to increase production

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

OCT. 3, 2008: Exide Technologies submits an application to state regulators to increase production at its battery recycling plant in Frisco.NOVEMBER: The Environmental Protection Agency gives notice that the federal air-quality standard for lead will become 10 times more stringent.NOV. 24: Frisco requests a contested-case hearing on Exide's application to expand production.SUNDAY: The Dallas Morning...

Frisco battery recycler facing tougher pollution standards won't add production

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

Exide Technologies Inc. said Friday that it is withdrawing its request to increase production at its battery recycling plant in Frisco. The withdrawal came three days after the Frisco City Council voted unanimously to ask the company to withdraw the application with state regulators because of concerns related to toxic lead emissions. That vote Tuesday followed a Dallas Morning News story Sunday on...

At a glance: Exide battery recycling plant

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

The battery recycling plant in Frisco operated by Exide Technologies Inc. was the topic of a story in Sunday's newspaper. Among the key points of that article:• Exide Technologies has applied to state regulators for an increase in finished lead production.• Frisco officials have objected to that application and are requesting a contested case hearing, which is a legal proceeding similar to...

Texas schools saying auf Wiedersehen to German programs

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009

Posters of snow-capped castles, Oktoberfest revelry and Albert Einstein decorate the walls of Claudia Keller's classroom in Frisco. She's only missing students. Six attend her AP German class, the only one in the school district. Across the country, German is sputtering next to its garrulous Spanish competitor, and now Mandarin is grabbing the spotlight. Even in Texas, a state once known for its meat-and-potatoes...

Additional Firms Obtain CSF Certifier Status

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009

FRISCO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) announced today that two more organizations have joined the growing list of professional services firms designated as HITRUST CSF Certifiers. Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain (LBMC), the largest regional accounting and professional services firm based in Tennessee, and Solutionary, an information security company with...

Frisco blog: Families sue truck driver, trucking company over deadly Oklahoma turnpike wreck

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009

Creed was driving the tractor trailer June 26 when it plowed into a line of cars stopped on Interstate 44 in northeastern Oklahoma because of an earlier wreck. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol found no evidence that Creed tried to stop. And the arrest affidavit says Creed told investigators his truck wasn't moving and that he was the one struck from behind.

Hardships rise in Dallas-Fort Worth amid economic downturn, census figures show

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009

Poverty levels rose in parts of North Texas last year, new census figures show, revealing rising hardships and a widening gap between rich and poor. The poverty level in North Texas as a whole remained unchanged at 12.7 percent from 2007 to 2008, buoyed by continuing suburban growth. In fact, poverty rates in a number of communities fell. Yet those figures conceal the impact of the economic downturn...

Frisco schools, city team up for state-of-the-art emergency-response system

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009

So now, when a fire alarm goes off in a school, firefighters can tap into live feeds of the school security cameras to look for smoke or flames. If a child is missing, officials can estimate how far he or she may have walked and draw a search grid on aerial maps. And if a truck spills hazardous materials, the city can see how the chemical will travel through the storm sewers.

Frisco blog: Trucker says he wasn't moving when deadly Oklahoma wreck occurred

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009