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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Wesley Wayne Miller, one of Tarrant County's most notorious sexual predators and killers, has been arrested again. Miller is accused of having a secret romantic relationship with a female Tarrant County jailer while in custody, which is a violation of his civil commitment order, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
A notorious killer who has been in and out of prison has picked up a new charge, officials said. Wesley Wayne Miller, who already was in jail on a civil commitment for killing a former classmate, is accused of having a secret relationship with a female Tarrant County jailer.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... the first Tuesday of every month.For next month’s foreclosures, the biggest increase is in Collin County, where postings are up17 percent from June 2007.Tarrant County sees a 1 percent dip in the number of pending foreclosures. And Dallas County totals are flat from a year earlier.Between 50 percent and 60 percent of the monthly foreclosure postings result in an actual...
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CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Jail, where he was required to live under the terms of his civil commitment order. Alana Minton, Tarrant County assistant district attorney, confirmed Wednesday that Miller has been charged with violating a civil commitment requirement, a third-degree felony. Terry Grisham, a spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department, said that the 21-year-old jailer has...
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On Tap (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... owned firearms banned on the vast majority of college campuses, you can't even talk about them. At Tarrant County College in Texas, for instance, students who wanted to protest the ban on legally owned firearms on campus were told they could only wear their empty holsters in the designated “free speech zone” and students were told they could NOT wear their “Students for Concealed...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... bags, to a Fort Worth hospital about 12:45 a.m. April 17, seeking medical help for herself.The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office ruled that the cause of death was stillbirth.According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Benitez initially told a detective that she had given birth to the 1.3-pound, 11-inch boy in her apartment April 15 after becoming ill.She said after the baby fell...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
In Tarrant County, many of EDS' employees work in offices in the CentrePort development south of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, largely for airline-related customers, said spokeswoman Annabelle Baxter. They develop new applications to solve particular client needs, as well as help serve as "an extra set of hands" to operate clients' data centers and other operations, she said.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
To run for the council, Mr. Brown turned down offers from several colleges, including Baylor University, to stay close to home. Although he lived in a dorm on campus in Denton, he commuted constantly to regularly attend meetings of the council and other city boards and commissions, including the Charter Review Commission, on which he served.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
To run for the council, Mr. Brown turned down offers from several colleges, including Baylor University, to stay close to home. Although he lived in a dorm on campus in Denton, he commuted constantly to regularly attend meetings of the council and other city boards and commissions, including the Charter Review Commission, on which he served.
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... surprise me if it extended beyond this administration," Miers said after her speech Tuesday at a Tarrant County Bar Association luncheon celebrating Law Day. But it also could be settled at any time "with the agreement of the parties," she said."All sides had hoped, I suspect, that it would be resolved by accommodation. That hasn't happened. Now it's in the hands of the judiciary,...
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Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... of a Democratic voter. The effort could affect several down-ballot races, including a couple of Tarrant County state House contests, Democratic analyst Kelly Fero said Friday. "Texas is definitely in play, more so down the ballot in state Senate and House races than in the presidential," said Fero, who's not aligned in this year's presidential sweepstakes. "But the presidential race...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Citizen Watchdog:DMN computer-assisted reporting editor Jennifer LaFleur writes about open records so you can use government information to improve your life.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
With only early voting results reported, no candidate had a majority of the votes in two at-large seats. Robert Shepard and Vera McKissic had similar vote totals, but neither had enough to avoid a June 14 runoff. Five candidates were running for the District 6 seat held by retiring council member Steve McCollum.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas, paid to have blood samples from 12 Tarrant County residents analyzed in 2006. The samples were tested for 83 toxic chemicals, including 15 of the most common chemical flame retardants. The analysis found low levels of 14 of them in the study participants. Here is a question-and-answer look at the problem: QUESTION: What...
