Story archive for December 2006

Sunday, Dec. 31

• Texas Music Awards accepting nominations

• San Jose Sharks 4, Dallas Stars 2

• State Rep. Brian McCall says he has the votes to be House speaker

• Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

• Retailers and smokers get ready: new $1 sales tax to begin

• Newborn found in trash bin in Lake Highlands area dies

• Dallas Cowboys 31, Detroit Lions 39

• Movie review: The Painted Veil

• Fort Worth is gonna be rockin’ in the new year

• Richland Hills Public Library holds ‘Adult/Teen Winter Read-In’

• Anna Youth Sports Association to kick off 1st-4th grade basketball season

• Todd’s Top Ten Movies of 2006

Saturday, Dec. 30

• Dallas Mavericks 94, New Orleans/Oklahoma Hornets 80

• Superstring and Inner Frequency receive multiple IOMA nominations

• Lovejoy Middle School awards Fall 2006 ‘Leopard Leaders’

• Lovejoy Middle School teacher receives award

• 5th Annual Video Festival entries due in February

• Grapevine-Colleyville ISD’s ‘Robin Hood’ payments decrease

• Hurst-Euless-Bedford district’s ‘Robin Hood’ payments decrease

• Northwest ISD’s ‘Robin Hood’ payments decrease

• Eagle Mountain-Saginaw’s ‘Robin Hood’ payments nullified

• Carroll ISD’s ‘Robin Hood’ payments decrease

• Sunnyvale ISD has a successful year in 2006

• Grand Prairie installs red light cameras at Belt Line and Lone Star Parkway

• Behringer Harvard Acquires Las Colinas Commons

• Behringer Harvard Acquires Bent Tree Green

• Liquor stores will be closed on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

Friday, Dec. 29

• Dallas Stars 4, Nashville Predators 1

• Storms disrupt DFW airport flights

• Exxon Mobil sues Alaska over contested oil leases

• Mavs a hit, thanks to reruns on the four major networks

• The Perfect Night: Saturday, December 30

• Shanghai 5 music to be featured on PBS

• Grand Prairie’s Bowles Life Center holds “I Have a Dream” essay contest

• Haltom City posts Holiday Decorating Contest results

• Armed robbery reported at the Village Apartments

• Arcadia area real estate developers looking for partner, neighborhood input

• Check out Rowlett’s water tower—live via webcam

• Huge end of year Final Friday tonight at Gypsy Tea Room

• UT Arlington offers a ‘heavenly’ way to celebrate the season

• Five Mile Creek bridge construction will affect traffic flow until August 2007

• Ch0’s top ten hip-hop albums of 2006

• Storms brewing in North Texas

• Kennedale to issue new debt for new water

• Two men stabbed in Irving

• Missed Film Opportunities of 2006

• UPDATED: Major accident at intersection of Bellaire and South Hulen in Fort Worth

• Crowley ISD lists ten reasons to celebrate Texas schools

• Corinth City Council appoints new offices, considers land annexation

• Ban lifted on sale of fireworks

• CD Review: Salim Nourallah & The Polaroids’ Pleasantry Lane

• New album preview for Max Cady’s Gun Crime

• New Denton DA looking to fill 25 office positions

Thursday, Dec. 28

• Frisco restaurant employee stabs coworker

• Friday Night Lights reruns helping TXA21 newscast

• Dallas Mavericks 101, Phoenix Suns 99

• Dallas / Fort Worth New Year’s Eve Party, Dinner and Club Guide

• Plano isn’t heaven or hell - it’s just a place to live

• The Perfect Night: Friday, December 29

• Randy McAllister releases compilation CD

• New hospital opens in Mansfield

• Raytheon sells Dallas office to Hawker Beechcraft

• Kennemer Middle School unleashes ‘T-RECS’

• Why the Texas Rangers aren’t going to suck any more

• Concert Review: Al Green and Delbert McClinton

• 16-year-old charged for rape of Frisco mom

• J.C. Penney fires COO without explanation

• Law Reviewers hand out 2006 Golden Gavel Awards for best food

• Haltom City Police Department offers two new emergency liaison programs

• Watauga Library will temporarily close for construction

• New Interview: Michael Chadwick of The Living Opera

• Lazer re-premiering “Night Moves” video at the Wreck Room

• CD Review: Frankie 45 & Ben Martin

• Keller man jailed for pretending to be a cop

• Lockheed Martin reaps $377 million bonus from Army deal modification

• New Interview: Eric from Red Monroe

• Sensors to be required on all Dalworthington Gardens irrigation systems

• Texas-sized mixed-use development slated for North Dallas retail hotspot

• Grand Prairie’s Fish Creek becomes ‘A Trail of Two Cities’

• Texas losing money on State Highway 121 tickets

• Tour Winnetka Heights Buddhist meditation center

• Town of Prosper offers two ways to toss out your X-mas tree

• The problems with getting a donor’s help in fighting poverty

• Dallas soldier killed in Iraq

• The Watkins era has begun, 17 to leave prosecutor’s office

• UPDATED: Farmers Branch officials certify rental law petition

Wednesday, Dec. 27

• Dallas Stars 5, Colorado Avalanche 4

• Euless man sues city over animal sacrifices

• Cowboys game draws big local TV numbers

• Mount Hood climber Kelly James laid to rest Wednesday

• California company wants to buy Thanksgiving Tower in Dallas

• Hurst annual Christmas tree recycling program begins again

• Movie Review: Children of Men

• Rockwall redesigns animal shelter adoption center plan

• Mansfield ISD trustees create new elementary attendance boundaries

• Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack to reopen Trees

• Colleyville to celebrate new fire stations

• Irving ISD Food Service Department to relocate

• Irving HS ace named Baseball America’s youth player of the year

• Plano named to Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live”

• Richardson named to Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live”

• Carrollton named to Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live”

• Denton named to Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live”

• North Richland Hills named to Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live”

• Wrecking crew knocks down University Gardens condos near SMU

• Dallas-based Atmos Energy announces “Round-Up” initiative to help needy families pay for heat

• Tickets for Uptown Players annual fundraiser show now on sale

• Wylie honors city employees at Annual Awards Banquet

• Collin County schedules 2 oath of office ceremonies for officials

• Dallas-based company to make history with the first global warming dividend

• Michael Davis’ Midweek Rant: Thoughts on SMU’s Bush Library bid and other topics from the past week

• New Duncanville Police Chief named

• Fort Worth outgrowing City Hall

• Liberty Christian lineman receives honor

• Euless trash collection little affected by strike

• New album on the way from the David Ramirez Band

• Dallas police disrupt Oak Cliff backyard dogfighting operation

• Sunnyvale blossomed with non-residential growth in 2006

• Watauga trash collection little affected by strike

• Saginaw trash collection little affected by strike

• Grapevine trash collection little affected by strike

• Ken Turetzky up for song of the year on the Red Peters Year End Countdown

• Garland libraries offer free online tutoring

• Pleasant Grove man shoots home invader

• Boy killed in Fort Worth car wreck

• Paul Quinn College seeks donations

• Exhibit Review: Gail Hillow Watkins: Iconic Imagery

• Garland to broadcast first Town Meeting of 2007

• Grapevine field house burns to the ground

• Couple killed by speeding truck near Casa Linda

• Former Hurst student on probation after bleaching another student’s Mountain Dew

• Southlake Carroll football ranked No. 2 in America

• Fathead enlists services of Plano-based PFSweb

• Dallas Mavericks 97, Charlotte Bobcats 84

• Lockheed Martin Receives $635 Million Contract for the Modernization of Turkey’s Existing F-16 Fleet

• Texas Manufacturing Activity Declines in December

• Irving Public Library celebrates diversity through new programs

• University Park Police Captain named as Duncanville Chief

• On the passing of a President

Tuesday, Dec. 26

• Another Albertson’s to close in Oak Cliff

• More Texas workers optimistic about the strength of the economy despite uncertainty in personal job situations

• Tiffany Kovatch Practices Giving 12 Months a Year

• Plano’s Brenda Tsai Meu makes and gives away hundreds of stockings for needy children

• Chickens shut down I-30 westbound

• NorthPark donates mall space for new branch of the Dallas Public Library

• Black Tie Dinner announces leadership changes

• Black Tie Dinner breaks $10 Million record

• Ferguson Road Initiative announces aid plan for Ash Creek residents

• Farmers Branch gets sued again over immigration housing issue

• Former Trophy Club City Manager to serve as Copper Canyon Interim Town Administrator

• Hurst trash collection little affected by strike

• Flickerstick set to release live album in April

• Keller trash collection little affected by strike

• New manufacturing plant to open in Garland

• Southlake trash collection little affected by strike

• Bedford trash collection little affected by strike

• Concert Review: Reverend Horton Heat

• Azle trash collection little affected by strike

• North Richland Hills trash collection little affected by strike

• Radiant* to be featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live

• Pegasus Theatre’s opening night will benefit animal shelter

• Leadership Coppell offers insight into town’s economic past and future

• Allen HS teacher wins Collin County teacher of the month award

• Fort Worth man arrested for praying with machete at church

• Former Trophy Club City Manager becomes Copper Canyon Interim Town Administrator

• Man dies after being stabbed at Christmas gathering

• New Interview: The Push

Monday, Dec. 25

• Philadelphia Eagles 23, Dallas Cowboys 7

• Lost cat in Little Elm

• Pop Poppins to reunite at Club Dada

Sunday, Dec. 24

• Merry Christmas, sicko

• Norah Jones wants to save Fry Street, too

• Exhibit Review: Danville Chadbourne: Recent Works

• Children celebrate Christmas with Santa at Sundance

• Dallas West End looks for a booster shot from Victory Park

Saturday, Dec. 23

• Movie Review part deaux: Dreamgirls

• Dallas Stars 3, Edmonton Oilers 2

• High school football - Southlake Carroll 43, Austin Westlake 29

• Funeral for Mount Hood climber will be Wednesday

• McKinney North HS assistant principal fights for job after cheerleader debacle

• State House member from Plano will try for Speaker’s seat

• High school football - Cedar Hill 51, Cypress Falls 17

• The Perfect Night: Saturday, December 23

• Sunday Reader: The week in review

• Rangers trade three prospects to White Sox for Brandon McCarthy

• Red light cameras catching a lot of drivers in Collin County

• New Interview: MC Router

• Tarrant County to get first Studio Movie Grill

• Fired UT Arlington employees say coworker was ‘demonically oppressed’

Friday, Dec. 22

• Apartment complex owners sue Farmers Branch

• Former Dallas police chief lands job in Georgia

• Longtime former SMU chemistry department chairman dies

• Plano ISD to host MLK tribute in January

• Dallas Mavericks 115, LA Clippers 83

• Men’s basketball - UNT 94, Jarvis Christian 70

• Do Dallas Muslim leaders want sharia to be the law of the land? - Part III

• AP names Southlake Carroll QB its 5A offensive player of the year

• Personal data of 15,000 TWU students made vulnerable

• Mesquite Police looking for robbery suspect

• Northside Elementary art teacher commissioned to sculpt Sen. Royce West bust

• Movie Review: The Good German

• Jon’s Grille hamburger place closes after 18 years

• DFW viewers apparently don’t like Katie Couric

• Ennis Public Theatre Audition

• St. Mark’s celebrates 100th anniversary 23 years after celebrating 50th

• Fort Worth-based Tandy Leather expanding nationwide

• SMU football bolsters defense with new cornerback/safety

• T. Boone Pickens launches charitable foundation

• Poor Rich Folk release new songs from their upcoming EP

• New report argues Texas energy deregulation has not done enough for consumers

• Antioch signs with Chapel Music

• TXU partners with Energy, Inc. to provide energy monitor across Texas

• Town of Flower Mound Enacts CodeRED Emergency Notification System

• Mavs benefit late from holiday reruns

• Man killed by train near Fair Park

• District will not allow Theret or Brunner to return to McKinney North HS after this year’s cheer scandal

• Women’s basketball - UNT 77, Northwestern State 66

• Women’s basketball - TCU 74, DePaul 73

• Now five athletes kicked off Plano Senior HS teams

• Flower Mound Police to enforce town’s curfew ordinance this holiday weekend

• Dallas Stars 3, San Jose Sharks 0

• Oi oi no: The Redblood Club closes its doors

Thursday, Dec. 21

• Men’s Basketball: SMU 64 - TCU 62

• PACCAR Foundation gift of $1.5 million to UNT will benefit the university’s College of Engineering

• Metrognome Collective shut down by fire marshall

• McDavid Pontiac-Buick-GMC shuts down

• Why people don’t oppose building 17 dirty coal plants in Texas

• Bank robbers strike across Dallas and Carrollton

• Texas Motion Picture Alliance struggles for relevance

• Richardson HS football coach gets reassigned

• ACS Promotes Vezina, Burlin to Chief Operating Officers

• UPDATED: SMU selected as site for George W. Bush Presidential Library?

• Dallas District Attorney’s Office has no open-file policy

• Exhibit Review: Windows into Heaven: Provincial Russian Icons from the 18th century to Early 20th

• Mesquite Police Department honored for pedestrian safety program

• University of Dallas faculty receive high honors

• Lewisville purchases land for seventh fire station

• Standard and Pours Coffee & Stocks changes name after fight with Standard & Poor’s

• Christmas presents for movie lovers

• Northlake joins with “Texas Round-Up!”

• The New Frontiers sign with The Militia Group

• The Irving Arts Center displays artwork and Christmas trees from Irving ISD schools

• Catholic Radio comes to North Texas

• Plano Senior HS athletes suspended for MySpace incident

• Women’s basketball - TCU 74, Syracuse 53

• Argyle Bluegrass Festival taking applications for bands for the 2007 show

• Plano company teams with Rocketplane Kistler to design new space aircraft

• McKinney North High School yearbook is a finalist for national award

• Park Cities water supply tainted by utility district employee

• Magnetek closes Dallas plant

• Northlake City Council to hold annexation hearing

• Lost golden retriever in Park Cities

• King Cone has raised $47,000 for cancer research

• Women’s basketball -Duke 75, SMU 45

• Funeral for Fort Worth officer today

Wednesday, Dec. 20

• TXU Energy offering free in-home energy audits

• New issue of Dallas Fed’s Southwest Economy covers TN visas, ports and Milton Friedman

• Legal immigrant former employees file RICO suit against HM Capital-owned Swift & Co.

• Restaurant Preview: Park Cities Prime

• Nowitzki carried off the court with ankle injury

• Denton Baptist pastor to retire after accusation of sexual abuse

• Sargent Brian L. Mintzlaff of Fort Worth killed in Iraq war

• Farmers Branch has little success raising funds for legal fees

• Trammell Crow sale completed today — another major local company under “foreign” leadership

• Former Cowboys part owner and player are among free enterprise award winners

• Lakewood Elementary School receives restaurant gratuity

• Alka-Seltzer hosts a Battle of the Jingles in Addison

• Other network reruns mean big numbers for Fox4

• Anna City Council awards Ferguson Parkway construction bid

• HGTV show That’s Clever! will air an episode showcasing Cliff House Studio and Gallery

• A promise of new music from Liquid Bounce

• Students to graduate from substance abuse rehab program

• Brave Combo tune to be featured on Travel Channel show

• Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket to host a concert benefiting the Gladney Center for Adoption

• 80-year-old gets lost on Christmas shopping trip, wrecks car about 14 hours later

• Prosper Town Council seeks a new position, will hold open election

• Southwest Bluegrass Club Winter Show tickets are on sale now

• Rowlett mayor declines to seek reelection

• SMU Faculty Senate to meet about proposed Bush library

• Friends of Dallas climber trekked on Mount Hood to help in the search

• Lease agreement brings LEGO to Roanoke

• Irving ISD issues Holiday release schedule

• Victims of home robberies forced to strip

• UPDATED: Allen man convicted on two counts of solicitation of capital murder

• Saginaw reminds residents to recycle their Christmas trees

• Benbrook bingo hall owner to seek overturn on smoking ordinance

• Poinsettia Bowl - TCU 37, Northern Illinois 7

• Another not-so-happy New Year for Lancaster: another trucking industry lawsuit?

• Dallas Federal Reserve Bank CEO Richard Fischer speaks to Longview Rotary Club

• Allen Group: $3,500 for politics, not a dime for Ronnie Lowe

• Highland Park safety group dissolves after town leaders question its motives

• Michael Davis’ Midweek Rant: Where are the new insights, where is the social context, and where is South Dallas?

• Plano store in trouble for selling piranhas

• Ann Lott was born a servant leader

• Azle residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• UTA accused of firing female employees for praying

• Want to do something to help Ash Creek residents? Here’s an opportunity

• Labor dispute could affect trash collection in Benbrook, neighboring communities

• Dallas Diocese giving Catholic students a day off to rally for school vouchers

• Wylie man’s alleged killer to stand trial

• Hurst city council approves new budget for 2006–07

• City of Rockwall plans to add lighthouse to The Harbor

• Hurst mourns the loss of Kevin Burlison, Street Superintendent

• Rasansky steps out of the mayoral race

• Lake Dallas Council to consider allowing house to become daycare center

• Women’s basketball - UT Arlington 58, Liberty 54

• Women’s basketball - SMU 73, Detroit 50

• George Lynch joins SMU men’s basketball staff

• Azle High School suffers fourth bomb threat in three months

• Speed limits decreased in busy Rockwall streets

• UNT nears completion of construction of two residence halls

• FC Dallas forward Kenny Cooper makes U.S. men’s national team

• Men’s basketball - UNT 86, Western Kentucky 85

• Fancy Plano Shops at Legacy fountain funds request withdrawn

Tuesday, Dec. 19

• Dell hires Former American Airlines chief as CFO, vice chairman

• Report says former Pearce coach will be new McKinney HS football coach

• Search for Mount Hood hikers moves to precipitous spot on the mountain

• NBC5 runs the table in four local news ratings measurements

• Army to withdraw from White Rock base

• Illegal immigrants sue Cafe Express

• Holiday songs that don’t suck…as much

• UNT library to expand the nation’s only CyberCemetery

• Tony Romo makes the Pro Bowl

• Flower Mound police cracking down on dangerous drivers this holiday weekend

• It’s holiday time, please be careful with your motor vehicle

• Fort Worth Opera to offer childcare for ticket holders

• Pet adoption: Irving shelter animals running out of time

• Rockwall girls basketball making case for best in state

• Mike Morgan back in the studio

• Duncanville boys basketball not top team in all polls

• McKinney proposes drought-tolerant landscaping

• Rockwall leaders propose drought-tolerant landscaping

• Corinth promotes drought-tolerant landscaping

• Frisco Community Theatre postpones season

• DeSoto company partners with Israeli parking systems firm

• Lewisville makes plans for new jail

• The Texas Commission on the Arts awards grants for 2007

• Calling all Five Times August fans

• National Weather Service reports no snow for North Texas’s Christmas

• Frisco proposes drought-tolerant landscaping measures

• Tower Records finally closes on Friday

• Watauga residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Westlake residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Westover Hills residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Westworth Village residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• White Settlement residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• De Zavala Middle School in Irving damaged by graffiti, cleanup ensues

• Food Review: Rush Patisserie

• Southlake residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Craig Watkins names Dallas District Attorney staffers; Toby Shook to leave office

• Page 9 adds new bassist, again

• Labor dispute could affect trash collection in North Richland Hills, neighboring communities

• Edgecliff Village residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Forest Hill residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Grapevine residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Grand Prairie residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Haltom City residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Haslet residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Hurst residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Keller residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Kennedale residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Lake Worth residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Mansfield residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Pantego residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Richland Hills residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• River Oaks residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Saginaw residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Sansom Park residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Labor dispute could affect trash collection in Grapevine, neighboring communities

• McKinney HS graduate to take part in Texas State Senate scholars program

• Labor dispute could affect trash collection in Hurst, neighboring communities

• Crowley residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Colleyville residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Dalworthington Gardens residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Labor dispute could affect trash collection in Euless, neighboring communities

• Burleson residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• ‘Ringleader’ charged for Azle, Springtown convenience store robberies

• Frisco couple’s wedding airs on the Style Network

• Blue Mound residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Do Dallas Muslim leaders want sharia to be the law of the land? - Part II

• Labor dispute could affect trash collection in Richland Hills, neighboring communities

• Benbrook residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Dallas has highest crime in the nation, unless it doesn’t

• Denton bowler competes in the 2006 Columbia 300 Classic

• Masked man carjacks vehicle in North Richland Hills

• Argyle bowler competes in the 2006 Columbia 300 Classic

• Dallas Cowboys playoff tickets on sale

• Kennedale fourth-grader starts newspaper

• Strike in Tarrant County delays garbage pickup

• McKinney ISD collects toys and food for needy families

• Men’s basketball - TCU 73, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 57

• What is Noka Chocolate really worth?

• Longhorn quarterback Snead to transfer

• Bedford residents: find your favorite restaurant’s food inspection score online

• Farmers Branch attorneys look at compromise to avoid lawsuit

• Skateboarding factory goes up in flames

• Lawyers sue DISD over Preston Hollow segregation case

• McKinney HS names new interim principal in wake of cheer scandal

• Slow-speed chase gridlocks I-35E North from Cedar Hill to Market Center

• Dallas 109 Mavericks, Sacramento Kings 91

• Duncanville pickpocket caught on video

• Women’s basketball - Texas A&M 70, UNT 52

Monday, Dec. 18

• Garland leaders hope redevelopment spurs growth in southern end of the city

• Cedar Hill offering bus charter to state championship

• SMU, TCU men’s basketball game will be on pay-per-view

• Cowboys-Falcons game didn’t match recent ratings

• Fort Worth based Freese and Nichols Inc. named ‘Best Place to Learn’

• Southlake teacher plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

• Nativity scenes bring Christmas spirit to the Dallas Arboretum

• 93-year-old Wylie resident is a checkers master

• New Jack Ingram/Sheryl Crow single to help raise money for breast cancer research

• Association honors UNT softball coach

• Former Rowlett massage therapist arrested in Colorado

• Firehouse Gallery calls artists to submit works for the “eVerDAY a woman” exhibit

• Proposed Bush library has some SMU faculty in a tizzy

• Keller holiday lighting winners announced

• Highland Park Presbyterian Church withholds financial support in protest of the possible ordination of homosexuals

• Keller Pointe center to host kids’ holiday Dinner and Movie

• Keller City Council to discuss new daycare facility

• Fortune says DFW housing market will be strong in 2007

• Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD will hold two public meetings to discuss 2007 attendance zones

• Flower Mound Girl Scouts send gifts to soldiers in Iraq

• U.S. Attorney’s disctrict office collects more than $28 million

• Texas Dept. of Transportation forces Santa to call a cab after reindeer gets wasted

• Two Kennedale Lady Wildcats taking stats nationally

• The Lights of Interlochen in Arlington begin

• Collin County Committee on Aging warms up the needy

• DFW airport unveils Santa Tracker website

• National Association of Town Watches recognizes Collin County

• Collin County approves road expansions in Murphy

• Collin County approves road expansions in Plano

• Collin County approves Preston Road expansion in Frisco

• DownLo’s lead singer to rock the National Anthem at FMX Motocross

• Collin County approves Performance Drive expansion in Richardson

• Album Review: Coffee Nods’ Grown

• UT Dallas to host Larry D. Terry Blues & Jazz Festival

• Collin County approves Exchange Parkway expansion in Allen

• Interview with ‘Nephew Tommy’ from the Steve Harvey Morning Show

• North Texans spending more time stuck in traffic

• Habitat for Humanity’s South Collin County chapter completes 25th house

• Collin County approves Custer Road expansion in McKinney

• Women’s basketball - Georgia 80, TCU 58

• SMU men and women swimmers win meet in Oklahoma City

• Unarmed man robs Allen bank

• Dallas / Fort Worth Film Critics Association lists award winners

Sunday, Dec. 17

• TCU heavily favored in Poinsettia Bowl against Northern Illinois

• Duncanville ISD earns perfect rating for highly qualified teachers

• Dahl house demolition proves Park Cities preservation groups are ineffective

• Ash Creek community meeting provides some answers, but more questions - UPDATED

• Body of Kelly James found on Mount Hood

• Hart Elementary students enjoy new recycling bin

• Dallas Police search for two missing brothers, aged 3 and 4

• Flower Mound makes BusinessWeek.com’s Top 25 U.S. suburbs

• A flawed process: Fast tracking dirty coal power plant permits in Texas

• If Superintendent Larry Lewis wants more “positive” LISD coverage…

• Terrell Owens apologizes for spitting in the face of a Falcon

• UPDATED: Fort Worth police officer dies in I-35 car wreck

• Dallas NAACP names Casey Thomas as new president

• Does Dallas have animosity towards the poor?

• Hebron in a stranglehold at the hands of Carrollton

• Crowley businessman appeals to city for help

• Little Elm ISD holds first community forum

• Grant awards help keep Seagoville ‘online’

• DeSoto Council members to award city’s best holiday lights display

• Would you warm your house with cow manure?

• Former Crowley resident puts on rodeo in Idaho

• Rowlett man charged with shooting ex-wife

• Men’s basketball - New Orleans 97, UNT 93 - double overtime

• Dr Pepper donates $1,000 to Balch Springs

• SMU swimmers finish strong third straight day in Oklahoma meet

• Oklahoma 89, UT Arlington 60

• Women’s basketball - UNT 68, New Orleans 52

• Burleson store owner shoots robber

• Former Carter High School basketball volunteer under scrutiny

• 1935 Terpsichorean Ball program for sale on Ebay

• Sunnyvale first graders ‘read to succeed’

• Lamar Hunt remembered as a great but humble man

• Dallas Mavericks 90, New Orleans Hornets 79

• Men’s basketball - SMU 68, Centenary 40

• Dallas Stars 4, Los Angeles Kings 3 - in a shootout

• High school football - Cedar Hill 31, Garland-24

Saturday, Dec. 16

• Movie Review: We Are Marshall

• Dallas Cowboys 38, Atlanta Falcons 28

• Erykah Badu to perform with Dave Chappelle in benefit for St. Philip’s School

• Sunday Reader: The week in review

• Avery Johnson visits his devastated hometown of New Orleans with Mavericks

• High school football - Southlake Carroll 38, Allen 0

• Dallas ISD’s Townview Center band will march in two big events

• Dallas ISD magnet schools will be taking applications in a few weeks

• Fort Worth police break up auto thieves ring

• Birth sign for drivers determines safety record

• Testers say the Joint Strike Fighter maiden flight was almost perfect

• SMU swimmers continue dominance in Oklahoma meet

• Do Dallas Muslim leaders want sharia to be the law of the land?

• Ugly fight ends game early between Carter and Kimball

• New playground built at Highland Station Park

• Movie review: Eragon

• Disrespect nabs a new singer

• Northwest ISD Education Foundation allocates backpacks and other supplies to students in need

• Birdville ISD establishes a Bond Oversight Committee

• Calling all Rangers and Mets fans and anyone else - we have a developing situation

• Dallas Mavericks 93, Philadelphia 76ers 79ers

• Dallas ISD gets $8 million grant to help promote the arts

Friday, Dec. 15

• J.C. Penney donates millions to after school programs

• Content of note from Mount Hood climbers is released

• The Perfect Night: Saturday, December 16

• Garland photojournalist killed in car wreck

• Irving City Council takes aim at smokers

• Saturday morning meeting to be held on services available to Ash Creek residents

• Movie Review part deaux: Apocalypto

• Trophy Club City Council meeting preview

• Denton resident Brandy Henry graduates from Texas Woman’s University

• Update on Lancaster High School theft and non-lockable classrooms

• SMU football coach Phil Bennett blogs some good philosophy

• Lancaster High theft story: Is Aaron Kennedy protesting on his own, or being pressured?

• Coppell Police Department busts Dallas drug lair

• Former Cowboys QB Quincy Carter is in jail

• Duncanville HS boys basketball to play in Primetime Tour Showcase

• North Mesquite football coach to become Mesquite ISD athletics director

• Rockwall girls basketball climbing national poll

• Richland Hills Fire Department would like to take your food off your hands

• Birdville ISD revises the number of credits needed for graduation

• Republican judges load up criminal defense rotation with ousted colleagues

• El Nino could hit DFW next week

• Bedford residents on alert after recent muggings

• Sons of Hermann starts new music series tonight

• Plano ISD Trustees keep students from taking home tests to show parents

• Mary Kay to be profiled on the Biography Channel

• Lost Jack Russell Terrier on Clear Springs Drive

• Dallas based Trinity Industries elects Adrian Lajous to board of directors

• Dallas ISD has highly-qualified teachers in almost every core classroom

• University Park City Council approves advertising kiosks

• Plano trash driver reaches 25 year mark

• Bodog Battle of the Bands hits Dallas tonight

• Tuesday Morning Corporation appoints Bruce A. Quinnell to its board of directors

• Tennis court, playground resurfacing at Willow Creek Park

• Oak Cliff restaurant, Starfish, closes down

• Tum Tum’s video “Caprice Musik” airs on BET’s #1 show 106 & Park

• Seagoville ordinance restricts where sex offenders reside

• Christmas singles from P.P.T. and Black Tie Dynasty now online

• SMU swimmers start strong at Oklahoma meet

• TEA clears schools of cheating based on questionnaire

• Dallas Arts Learning Initiative receives an $8 million grant from the Wallace Foundation

• Sunnyvale students keep in shape, run the Turkey Trot

• Pike and Medlin Middle recognized as top schools by Texas Monthly

• Irving based EFJ, Inc. receives a $3 million contract from the Department of Defense

• Arlington’s South Point Baptist Church catches fire

• Police find two dead near UTA

• Harder Beat Magazine reviews Moving Atlas’ et al

• Fort Worth ISD is the slacker, not the students

• NY Rangers 5, Dallas Stars 2

Thursday, Dec. 14

• TCU coach says Northern Illinois is like no football team they’ve played so far

• Bank One Center building in Dallas sells for $216 million

• Stranded Mount Hood climber turned cell phone on and off

• DFW literacy not so hot, compared to other big cities

• Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary students hospitalized due to pepper spray

• The Perfect Night: Friday, December 15

• Coppell ISD awarded for high achievement

• Lancaster High cosmo class is officially 270 feet too small

• TAAS and TAKS testing dates announced for Irving out-of-school students

• ABC’s replacement for Lost is really lost

• Former Garland police officer lies and swindles on an epic scale

• Gus Thomasson bridge repaired after accident

• SPCA animals are in need of a home for the holidays

• Trophy Club Christmas lighting contest winners announced

• Screw you, New York Mets

• Colleyville med tech firm teams with occupational health provider MedAlert

• Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers share story behind Katrina coverage

• Plano ISD superintendent Otto outlines the upcoming 2007 legislative session

• Broken pipe leads to something fishy in Fort Worth’s Trinity Park

• Plano urges residents to recycle their Christmas cards

• Arlington Police open fire on burglary suspect

• Plano based UGS Corp. global leader in providing lifecycle management software

• New Interview: Salim Nourallah

• Johns Elementary School makes appeal, meets federal standards

• Women’s basketball - Arkansas 70, SMU 58

• DART looks at aboveground solutions for Love Field train

• Venture High School makes appeal, meets federal standards

• Bowie High School makes appeal, meets federal standards

• Denton police sergeant resigns after investigation

• Plano West cross-country team competes in snowy Washington State

• Parents say Grapevine needs school zone on Pool Road

• OnQ TV visits with The Motion

• University Park presents a new way to enforce parking

• Dallas artist wins first place at the Cairo Biennial art show

• UPDATED: Exhibit Review - Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat

• The Rocket Summer continues work on new album

• T. Boone Pickens gives $250,000 to Gilda’s Club North Texas

• Flower Mound woman finds Texas in Tostitos corn chip

• Evelyn Siegel Art Gallery closed

• UT Arlington ROTC program to commission 1,000th cadet

• FW Weekly reviews Baboon’s latest album

• Carrollton-based company helps Texans save four-to-six weeks of their electricity costs

• Fort Worth Zoo has big plans for new snake exhibit

• Movie Review: Apocalypto

• Rachael Ray holds signing for new cook book at Borders

• Mr. Jim’s first pizza chain with online ordering at all locations

• CD Review: Karen Naomi’s blind

• Jeffrey McGowen, M.D. joins Texas Hip and Knee Center in Fort Worth

• Boys arrested for after elementary school shooting

• Lancaster HS rekeying: How new football stadium caused the mess

• Fifth Circuit rules that Constitution requires Texas courts to give full consideration to defendants’ mental health before handing down death penalty

• Watch out for dang bobcats and coyotes

• Frisco Public Library launches new service for patrons

• Lamar Hunt dies

• Dallas Mavericks 110, LA Lakers 101

• Men’s basketball - SMU 68, Prairie View 51

• Candidate for Dallas NAACP presidency seeks a new vision for the chapter

Wednesday, Dec. 13

• Mesquite students collect $35K in Christmas fundraising campaign

• Emmitt Smith to tango into real estate development

• Farmers Branch group turns in petition

• Rusty Greer named coach of Texas Collegiate League team in Euless

• Lancaster leaders missing the boat on development rezoning

• UT Southwestern ranked among America’s top biomedical research universities

• Rachel Shipley and Courtney Barg of Plano West HS earn high school All-America honors

• Alex DeCosta of Lake Highland HS earns high school All-America honors

• Blake Wilson of Coppell HS earns high school All-America honors

• UT Dallas says computer hack may have affected more people

• Cleanup project makes downtown Irving ‘sparkle’

• TCU students race to save endangered mascot

• Two new Irving neighborhoods in the works

• Grinch gave back Christmas again Tuesday night, but it stole Belo8’s newscast ratings as compensation

• Copper Canyon physician’s assistant nominated for fire commissioner

• Sales tax collections increase in Lantana, Copper Canyon

• Copper Canyon land swap will create schools

• Dallas architect’s Highland Park house demolished

• TCU study explores stepfamily interaction

• Rock out with Mayoral Candidate Zac Crain

• Denton school board sets class schedule for school year 2007-08

• Interview: Carter Albrecht from Sorta, Sparrows

• Some residents fight Outer Loop plans in Collin County

• Ingrid Hoffman speaks at NorthPark this Saturday

• Learn the music industry from Def Jam’s Lindsay Rodman

• North Arlington choo choo catches fire

• New CD Releases

• UT Arlington to host first competition for ballroom dancing outreach program

• Chihuahua lost near Dallas / Duncanville / Cedar Hill border

• Arlington Fire Department creates five-year plan

• $18,000 stolen from McKinney drill team booster club

• TEA irked by DISD teachers with criminal records

• How to Fix Garland’s Broken Rental Inspection Program

• Lost pug on Piping Rock Road in Denton

• Volunteers in Patrol looking out for Forest Hills

• Columbus Blue Jackets 3, Dallas Stars 1

• SMU’s Natalia Bubien ranked No. 15 by Intercollegiate Tennis Association

• TXU says they are fighting CO2 emissions

• Educating kids about AIDS continues to be an uphill battle

Tuesday, Dec. 12

• Fort Worth is on the lookout for illegal car parkers

• U.S. Commerce Secretary appoints UNT business college dean to panel

• TXU and the health of Texans

• UNT hires Todd Dodge to lead Mean Green football

• Winstead Announces New Shareholders; Elects Michelle Rieger and Peyton Smith to the Executive Committee

• All JFK assassination riddles solved

• Dallas/Fort Worth CFOs Report on First-Quarter Hiring Outlook

• Texas campers can get free 2007 guide

• Tony Dorsett participating in zany promotional scheme at Prestige Ford in Garland

• Fans bring questions to new FC Dallas coach

• Dallas/Fort Worth CIOs Forecast Increase in First-Quarter Hiring

• Lamar Hunt fights for his life in Dallas hospital

• Bedford woman stabs roommate in neck, turns self in

• Prosper man buys into 20 franchise restaurant locations

• Stars activate captain Brenden Morrow and Antti Miettinen from IR

• Dallas Housing Authority changes mind and extends Ann Lott’s contract

• Larry James responds to criticism of CityWalk project

• Two Coppell ISD schools make Texas’s Honor Roll

• Britney Christian visits Austin Middle School

• St. Thomas Aquinas students experience theme-based education

• Ex-Cowboy Everson Walls will donate a kidney to former teammate

• NBC wants more viewers for Christmas

• Davis Elementary celebrates reading day

• West End Pub moves to new location downtown

• Westlake Planning and Zoning Commission set to meet on December 14

• Fort Worth man sentenced to 40 years without parole in federal prison

• Richland Hills Church of Christ to add instrumental service

• Plano approves $1 million for fancy fountain

• Farmers Branch Fire Department is “Out to Alarm Texas”

• Tax incentives approved for Mansfield development

• UNT plans to hire Carroll football’s Todd Dodge as new head coach

• TCU freshman named to magazine’s All-Freshman team

• UTD students, faculty, and staff records vulnerable after computer intrusion

• Rangers get Eric Gagne for one year, $6 million

• Vote now for the Column Theatre Awards

• NPR features story on Kristy Kruger’s brother

• Dallas ISD receives $22.4 million federal grant for teacher incentives

• Rapid growth has left Fort