Demolition permit filed for 82-year-old funeral home on Ross Avenue, which will be razed for ...
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 13:58:19 -0700 | political-news
After 82 years of existence, the former Brewer Funeral Home at 3603 Ross Avenue moved one step closer to its demise this week. On behalf of Trammell Crow Residential, Midwest Wrecking Co. of Texas applied for a demolition permit on...
Dallas ISD announces finalists for 2013 Teacher of the Year
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 15:15:28 -0700 | political-news
Paula Cushanick (Dallas ISD) Kevin Grimes (Dallas ISD) Beth Poquette Drews (Dallas ISD) Joshua Newton (Dallas ISD) Linda Wood (Dallas ISD) Dallas ISD has announced five finalists for 2013 Teacher of the Year. They were chosen by a committee of...
Llano County issues Amber Alert for two young teenage girls
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 14:55:44 -0700 | political-news
Llano County officials have issued an Amber Alert for two young teenage girls who were last seen at 1 a.m...Authorities suspect Keith Mize, 33, has the two girls, Savannah and Misty Sloan, who are 13 and 15, respectively. Mize is...
House votes to reduce testing for high-performing students
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 14:55:41 -0700 | political-news
House members voted Thursday to scale back testing for higher performing students in elementary and middle schools, but the move would be contingent on Texas getting approval from the U.S...The measure also would drop current writing tests for all students...
New zoning would push 14 existing businesses out of Valley View-Galleria area
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 14:55:36 -0700 | political-news
Click to enlarge for a better look at the aerial view of Dallas Midtown as seen in the plan approved by the City Plan Commission. This process began in September 2011 , and the finish line remains a long way...
Robberson: No one wants to accept responsibility for West explosion
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 13:17:36 -0700 | political-news
An investigator pauses while sifting through the debris of the destroyed fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Investigators face a slew of challenges in figuring out what caused the explosion at the fertilizer plant that killed 14...
Denton County pastor arrested on sex-related charges
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 06:00:56 -0700 | political-news
02 May 2013 07:57 AM Updated: 02 May 2013 07:57 AM Corinth police arrested the lead pastor of The Church of Corinth on Wednesday on sex-related charges, investigators said...Jeffrey Dale Williams, 47, was charged with attempted sexual performance of a...
Dallas police find no evidence of alleged sexual assault at Thomas Edison Middle Learning Center
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 19:22:03 -0700 | political-news
The Dallas Police Department found no evidence that a sexual assault occurred at Thomas Edison Middle Learning Center on Monday, according to Dallas ISD. Channel 4 had reported that the alleged victim, still dazed after the attack, told workers at...
With some dissent, Dallas council approves local, and more expensive, fuel purchase
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 10:04:02 -0700 | political-news
Dallas taxpayers will spend about $63,000 more to purchase unleaded and diesel fuel in coming months, after the City Council voted this morning to buy from a local firm over less costly competitors based out of town. Last year, the...
Woman's body found dumped in woods near Trinity River in far southeast Dallas
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 06:58:38 -0700 | political-news
A dead woman in her 20s was found dumped in far southeast Dallas late Tuesday, police say...Dowdy Ferry Road, in a wooded area along the Trinity River where bodies turn up with some frequency. Like her identity, the woman's cause...
Dallas ISD eighth-graders progress on state tests, but fifth-graders drop in math
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 21:43:33 -0700 | political-news
But overall, the district still trails statewide passing rates in fifth and eighth grades.
Texas House votes to crack down on tollway scofflaws
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 12:40:15 -0700 | political-news
House Transportation Committee Chairman Larry Phillips, R-Sherman (2008 AP Photo/Harry Cabluck) The House voted Tuesday to crack down on tollway scofflaws, especially in North Texas. The measure, tentatively approved on a voice vote, would let toll road authorities block annual...
Trammell Crow planning major retail, apartment project near Cityplace
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 09:30:07 -0700 | political-news
The Affiliated Computer Systems campus is on North Central Expressway at Haskell Avenue. (Lara Solt/Dallas Morning News) Developer Trammell Crow Co. wants to redevelop a 16-acre property on North Central Expressway near Uptown into a new shopping center and apartment...
Family and Protective Services takes temporary custody of eight children left at Oak Cliff fire ...
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 05:03:06 -0700 | political-news
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating the circumstances that led to eight children being dropped off at a South Oak Cliff fire station Sunday morning. According to Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesman Jason Evans, at about 7:30 a.m....
McKinney man charged in wife's slaying dies after jumping from overpass
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dallas :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-28 19:39:05 -0700 | political-news
35 PM A man accused of killing his wife at their McKinney home last month died Sunday after jumping from a highway overpass in Allen, police said. Eric Merz, 42, was facing a murder charge, but was out on bond...
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