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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amid the elbow-knocking and harried determination that mark today's start of the holiday shopping season, most aim for survival.Photos by MICHAEL AINSWORTH/DMN Holly Copeland (right) takes a moment away from the crowds to read a magazine at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco as family members (from left) Ashtyn Melton, Jim Copeland (obstructed), Lauren Melton and Bonnie Frank relax. A few find serenity. Kelley...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Certain grocery shopping priorities transcend age and mission.MONA REEDER/DMNKindergartners from Primrose Schools in Frisco went shopping at on Main Street in a hands-on lesson in giving. But doing for others didn't keep the children from eyeing the store's bakery treats. From left: Logan Deering, Bella Cormier, Sarayu Kantamsetty and Allie Jacob. "Toilet paper!" screamed 5-year-old Bella...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Leslie Anne Hurt, 42, took the girls — Ashley Hurt, 8, and Haleigh Hurt, 6 — against a judge’s order and “has not attempted to contact authorities since her disappearance earlier in the week or allowed detectives to check on the welfare of the two missing girls,” according to a missing persons release.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Exide Technologies' decision last month not to seek state permission to expand production at its Frisco lead smelter doesn't mean public health concerns are over. Even with no expansion, airborne lead levels around the 45-year-old vehicle battery recycler are among the highest measured anywhere in the country. As recently as last year, they came close to the Environmental Protection Agency's legal...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
J.C. Penney was the first retailer to open in the shopping center in 2005 and since then several stores have been added including Sam Moon Trading Co. , Belk, Best Buy and Hobby Lobby. Other stores under construction are Rooms To Go, BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Freebirds World Burrito and Kirkland’s.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The best advice I ever received was: Nothing in life comes easy, and you have to work for everything you get.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...