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A Richardson elementary school was closed today after a student tested positive for swine flu. Meanwhile, Dallas County health officials have notified school administrators to watch for students with flu-like symptoms or children who may have stayed home with an undiagnosed case of the illness. Canyon Creek Elementary Canyon Creek Elementary School in Richardson also has an unconfirmed but suspected case of the disease, officials said.

Police are investigating whether a man arrested in an ambush killing in a west Oak Cliff parking lot Monday morning came to Dallas from Mexico to commit the crime. Jose Rangel Arrez, 34, was being held Tuesday night at the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge in the killing of 37-year-old Antonio Aviles-Sanchez. Police say Arrez is a Mexican citizen and had been in the state for just a few days. "He's in Texas less than a week and involved in an ambush-type shooting," said homicide Sgt. Bruce McDonald. "For him to come in this short period of time...

Just watch. Katrina Pierson, a young mother who spoke at the Dallas Tea Party, sends a clear message to race-card playing twits like Janeane Garofalo: “Not all of us are hypnotized.” Amen: Video: Katrina Pierson - Dallas Tea Party - April 15, 2009

DALLAS — A 26-year-old woman fatally shot a man who lived in her Red Bird apartment complex and broke into her unit Tuesday night, Dallas police said. Two women were inside their apartment in the 8000 block of Leigh Ann Drive, which is just north of Danieldale Park and Interstate 20, when the 55-year-old man knocked on the door about 11 p.m, police said. One of the women called police as the man tried to get inside, and the other woman shot him as he entered, causing him to stumble out the door and collapse in the grass, police said....

For perhaps the only time Wednesday evening, the masses assembled outside Dallas City Hall grew quiet as the man who drew them there, Phillip Dennis, hunched over a wooden lectern, his eyes narrowing. "We will be called haters, and we are. We are haters of big-spending politicians. We will be called racists, and we are – we are members of the human race," Dennis, a McKinney resident, said as silence turned to roars. Such moments encapsulated the spirit of area "Tax Day Tea Parties" – unapologetic public rallies that involved Republicans, conservatives and libertarians railing against government expansion, federal taxation...

Pictures from the Tea Party in Dallas, Texas. My guess is about 2 - 3 thousand folks showed up.

Back in Texas, A More Simple Life for Bush In Insular World, the Negative Is Left Behind By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 11, 2009; A01 DALLAS -- The new couple at 10141 Daria Place accepted an invitation to a neighborhood dinner party last month. The guest list totaled eight. The main dish was chicken potpie. George and Laura Bush left their cul-de-sac in the back of a dark sedan, exited through a Secret Service checkpoint and rode down streets bordered by lawn signs adorned with gigantic W's to welcome them home. It had been a bad...

DALLAS -- The new couple at 10141 Daria Place accepted an invitation to a neighborhood dinner party last month. The guest list totaled eight. The main dish was chicken potpie. George and Laura Bush left their cul-de-sac in the back of a dark sedan, exited through a Secret Service checkpoint and rode down streets bordered by lawn signs adorned with gigantic Ws to welcome them home. It had been a bad week for the country. President Obama spoke on television about the burdens he had inherited in office: anti-American sentiment, two wars, a recession. But it had been a good...

Anti-God Ads Hit Dallas by Christine Dao* In the heart of the Bible belt, billboards stating “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” have been posted in parts of Dallas, home of the Institute for Creation Research. The boards are sponsored by the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason (DFWCoR), an atheist nonprofit group which joins together smaller local anti-theistic organizations to “increase the growth, visibility and acceptance of nontheists throughout the Metroplex.”[1] Two ads have been posted in the D/FW area, one just a few miles from ICR headquarters, and will remain up through April. According to Fred Edwords...

UPDATE: Tom Hicks tells The Dallas Morning News that he is not yet in default; please see tomorrow's paper for details. I've adjusted the wording throughout this item to reflect that. If anybody has information that contradicts his position, please let me know. Dallas billionaire Tom Hicks' holding company stopped interest payments on $525 million in loans, according to a report today by financial Web site FINalternatives. Hicks Sports Group, which owns the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars, failed to make an interest payment on syndicated banks loans earlier this week, according to the report. The Hicks group is...

A.H. Belo Corp., owner of The Dallas Morning News and three other daily newspapers, announced plans Thursday to cut employee salaries next month and suspend its retirement supplement to pension plan participants next year. The latest initiatives come amid other cost-cutting efforts, including employee layoffs, as the Dallas-based newspaper company faces “one of the most trying advertising environments our industry has ever encountered,” said Robert W. Decherd, A. H. Belo’s chairman, president and chief executive. “These decisions are not taken lightly and all are made with a focus toward maintaining A. H. Belo’s ability to be the leading provider of...

Don't miss the Tea Party scheduled for Apr 15, 2009 at Dallas City Hall from 6pm to 9pm. The drive by media can't ignore us if we have a strong showing. Web site is www.dallasteaparty.org and I would encourage everyone to show up and let our voices sould the alarm. It's way too late to say it doesn't matter, and the heck we raise might keep the socialists in check. Contact Philip through this web site or e-mail me. Perhaps a few of you remember the greeting we had for the Health Care Express in Arlington in 1994. I do...

As he rushed his family to the hospital, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats rolled through a red light. A Dallas police officer pulled their SUV over outside the emergency room. Moats and his wife explained that her mother was dying inside the hospital. "You really want to go through this right now?" Moats pleaded. "My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!" The officer, 25-year-old Robert Powell, was unmoved. He spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatened him with arrest. "I can screw you over," the officer told Moats. "I'd rather not do that." The scene last week, captured...

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A police officer was put on desk duty after pulling over an NFL player rushing to see his dying mother-in-law in the hospital and holding him in the hospital parking lot as she died. Dallas police officer Robert Powell stopped Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats' SUV outside Baylor Regional Medical Center during the early hours of March 18 after Moats rolled through a red light. Moats and his family had gotten a call saying his mother-in-law was dying. Video from a dashboard camera inside the officer's vehicle, obtained by Dallas-Fort Worth station WFAA-TV, revealed an...

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... In the report, a teacher was quoted as saying Moten told security personnel to put two fighting students "in the cage and let `em duke it out." The report said a hall monitor, Gary King, told investigators he witnessed the head of campus security and an assistant basketball coach place two students in the cage to fight. Another hall monitor, Reno Savala, told investigators he came upon two students fighting in the cage "bare-fisted with no head or eye protection." Savala said the assistant coach was watching the fight and broke it up when Savala told him to. "It...

I am visiting my children in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I intend to take them shooting today, but I have not been to a range in the area for a few years. My daughter lives in the northern part of Dallas and we want to go shooting pistols this afternoon. I would appreciate any suggestions about ranges or places that would be available for us to shoot. In Arizona, where I live, it is fairly easy to find places to shoot on public land, as about 85% of Arizona is publicly owned land. However, most of Texas is privately owned,...

Round 2 of the Nationwide "Chicago Tea Party" is set to happen in Dallas on April 15th, 2009... TAX DAY from 6 to 9 pm We'll be working with several sponsors and groups in a collaborative effort to make this one even larger than the last! Please join the group and invite all of your friends, family, and colleagues to be a part of this nationwide movement! You can stay updated at this FaceBook event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=47165672254 and at the website for the Tax Day Tea Party...http://taxdayteaparty.com/ The exact location and time have not been determined yet for the Dallas...

This time it's United State Trade Representative nominee Ron Kirk who owes back taxes, joining the ranks of other tax-addled Cabinet nominees such as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former Health and Human Services Secretary designate Tom Daschle, and former chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killifer. Kirk owes $9,975 in back taxes, most of that from speaking engagement honoraria. Kirk had told organizations to give speaking fees directly to his alma mater, Austin College. In all, $37,750 of honoraria were not reported as income for tax years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Senate Finance Committee reported, saying that Kirk should...

Add former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk to the list of Obama Cabinet picks with tax problems. The Senate Finance Committee says he underpaid by $9,975 in the last three years. Senate aides uncovered the shortfall during weeks of vetting, and Kirk – the administration’s designated point person on trade -- has promised to pay the Internal Revenue Service in full. The problems: Kirk deducted too much for season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks and too much for tax preparation fees, and failed to report as income speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, Austin College. The full political...

Obama trade nominee fixes errors in tax returns Mon Mar 2, 2009 4:22pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. trade representative, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, has filed amended tax returns after a review found he failed to pay taxes on $37,750 in speaking fees he donated to his college alma mater, a Senate panel said on Monday. "Staff estimates the total tax adjustment on Mayor Kirk's amended returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007 will be approximately $9,975," the Senate Finance Committee said. Kirk also amended his tax returns to reduce the amount of business...

USTR Nominee Latest to Face Tax Problems By Jessica Brady Roll Call Staff March 2, 2009, 4:32 p.m. Former Dallas Mayor Ronald Kirk, President Barack Obama’s pick for U.S. trade representative, misfiled taxable income and owes about $9,975, according to a Senate Finance Committee report released Monday.... Developing...

The city of Dallas' gun buyback program yielded 147 guns in exchange for $50 grocery store gift cards Saturday, the city announced. Although many of the guns turned in were generations-old rifles and shotguns, a few of the guns more typically used in crimes – handguns – were collected. "This shows that people will be behind a positive activity," said Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, who spearheaded the event at Reunion Arena. "Some of those guns are ones our officers are up against." Throughout the morning, a steady stream of young and old braved the cold weather to turn...

Drug Wars Screenings---Dallas and Houston The Dallas screening of DRUG WARS is set for Monday, March 2 at Studio Movie Grill - Dallas (11170 N. Central Expressway at Royal Lane). Showtime is 7:30 PM. A preview screening has been set up in Houston at Studio Movie Grill - Copperfield for Thursday, March 5. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Studio Movie Grill - Copperfield 8580 Hwy. 6 North Houston, TX 77095 (Due to graphic violence, this film is not recommended for children.) To learn more about the documentary, go to drugwarsthemovie.com.

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Bush Talks About Life Outside the White House 'The Only Thing We Don't Have Are the Newspapers,' Says Former First Lady By JONATHAN KARL and KAREN TRAVERS HOUSTON Feb. 26, 2009— Commercial airline travel, trips to the hardware store for nightlights and walks around the neighborhood all part of everyday life these days for former President George W. Bush and his wife, former first lady Laura Bush. In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Mrs. Bush said she and her husband were settling into a normal, post-presidency life at their new home in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas after...

Former first lady Laura Bush says she didn't watch President Barack Obama's speech to Congress because "I just totally forgot about it." But Mrs. Bush hasn't become totally disengaged from politics in the roughly five weeks since she and her husband, George W. Bush, moved out of the White House. She says, for example, that she remains very interested in what happens in Afghanistan, calling Obama's developing policy there "encouraging." Mrs. Bush made women's rights issues in Afghanistan a personal priority, and she visited there alone on at least two occasions. She said the fact she overlooked Obama's speech was...

Former President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura W. Bush made a surprise visit to their neighborhood school, Dallas ISD's John J. Pershing Elementary Wednesday morning. Mr. Bush visited every classroom at the school and stayed for more than an hour. "He and Mrs. Bush were very warm and inviting and they stopped and acknowledged every person in the school," said Pershing principal Margarita Hernandez. "This is an experience that our children will never forget. President Bush made several students pledge and commit themselves to read more instead of watching TV. He told students that reading is the key to...

So this has been picked up by most of the Dallas-area print and online media. It's grown from a half-joking blog post I made this morning to a full-on uprising. We're turning this joke of a buy-back program into an open air gun show. Any Dallas-area gunowner Freepers want to join in? ------------ Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s plan is to give $50 Kroger gift certificates to anyone who turns in an unloaded, functioning firearm. The program commences at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Reunion Arena. My plan is to be there with envelopes containing $65 in cash each,...

Dallas, Texas: The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University [5900 Bishop Boulevard, 214-768-2516] presents "From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany," a comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art, on view through May 17. More than 400 objects spanning the Ninth through Second Centuries BC are featured, drawn primarily from the renowned Florence Archaeological Museum, as well as from several smaller Italian museums and private collections. Many of the objects have never before traveled here. A complementary exhibition, "New Light on the Etruscans: Fifteen Years of Excavation at Poggio Colla," presents for the first time in North America the...

Making light of an advertisement that offered him a job as a store greeter, former President George W. Bush stopped by a Dallas hardware store Saturday morning and jokingly inquired about the position.

If you've seen the yellow bags on your door knob, you probably know this is the day Boy Scouts collect food for the hungry. Their goal - 500,000 items. But behind one door knob, a local Cub Scout troop solicited a pretty special donor, former president George W. Bush. For 10,000 local kids, scouting for food is door to door, and it's neighbor to neighbor. But for the boys of Troop 19, their newest neighbor is guarded by the police and the Secret Service. Getting the former president's canned goods is no simple matter. "You had to do a bit...

BUSH GOES TO HARDWARE STORE THAT OFFERED HIM A JOB AP February 21, 2009 -- Former President George W. Bush has visited a Dallas hardware store that earlier this month made him a lighthearted offer to work as a greeter. Andrea Bond, a manager at Elliott's Hardware, says Bush walked into the store Saturday and quipped: "I'm looking for a job.".........

If you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, reader Mark Christopher Frimmel has come forward to put a Tea Party ‘09 event together. He put up an ad on Dallas Craigslist, has contacted local radio and TV, and wants you to be there. The protest will be held on the outside stage at The Cowtown Bar & Grill on Friday, Feb. 27, from 3pm to 7pm, located at 7108 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX. Music, food, and great fiscal conservative company guaranteed.

Bush Visits Dallas Hardware Store, Jokes About Applying for Job Bush was responding to an open letter to him from the store's president and CEO inviting him to consider a position as a part-time greeter. FOXNews.com Saturday, February 21, 2009 In one of his first outings in Dallas since leaving the White House, former President Bush made a surprise appearance at a hardware store Saturday and joked, "I'm looking for a job." Bush was responding to an open letter to him from the store's manager inviting him to consider a position as a part-time greeter. Kyle Walters, president and CEO...

The website of a New York TV network whose aim is to improve American perceptions of Islam was shut down this morning, two days after its founder admitted to the beheading of his wife. And while that irony might bring a momentary smile, another attempt to conceal the facts behind an honor killing right here in America should stir nothing short of outrage. Muzzammil Hassan, CEO of Bridges TV, whose motto is "connecting people through understanding," apparently didn't think Thursday's honor killing -- and make no mistake about what this was -- at the station might somehow blur that message....

The Gulf Cartel in Mexico has now been deemed the biggest terroristic threat in the United States, including in North Texas. In recent months, there have been no kidnappings or deaths related to the Gulf Cartel in North Texas, authorities say. However, a large task force recently arrested dozens of cartel members and confiscated millions in cash, drugs and weapons. The Gulf Cartel has been called one of the most dangerous groups in the world, and authorities said they have waged a war to control all the drugs coming into the U.S. from Mexico. "They are fighting back with the...

<p>By JIM LANDERS jlanders@dallasnews.com HELSINKI, Finland – This is the land where no child is left behind.</p> <p>By the time Finland's children complete the ninth grade, they speak three languages. They have studied algebra, geometry and statistics since the first grade. And they beat the pants off students from just about everywhere else in the world.</p>

KAUFMAN COUNTY — Investigators said an alleged intruder at a Kaufman County business was in stable condition Friday morning after the owner shot him. According to Assistant Chief Deputy Troy Graham, the owner reported hearing someone inside his storage facility in the 1000 block of Everett Drive around 2:30 a.m. Robert Sanders grabbed his loaded rifle, walked to the front and confronted the suspected burglar. He opened fire and struck the suspect, several times. Deputies found the wounded man lying just outside the door. Sanders leases a storage unit at the location, and lives in the back of that unit....

College student charges $20 for signs to help greet former first family in posh neighbourhood ### There is no place like home, as George Bush will soon discover when he moves permanently into his new post-presidential neighbourhood in Dallas to discover an active fan club - *snip* The student, since Christmas, has since sold nearly 800 signs at $20 (£13) each - most to supporters of Barack Obama, according to his father, Bill Bibb. About $2 from each sign goes to a local primary school. "I think it's kind of a general feeling that people are just tired of the...

"Where is the Money?" Where is the Outrage?? by: Tom McClusky The Washington Post today has an article on how protestors are currently in Washington to protest that the federal government isn't providing the victims enough money (presumably because they believe President Bush created the storm with his weather controlling machine.)  The Post article certainly romanticizes the protestors: "They came to Washington yesterday from temporary housing, from apartments in Houston, hotel rooms in Dallas and spare bedrooms in cousins' homes. They came to say that the only place they really want to go is home."  What the Post fails to mention is...

Ex-Dallas Cowboy Hayes' Hall call is long overdue12:13 AM CST on Saturday, January 31, 2009 • E-mail TAMPA, Fla. – Bob Hayes, his body ravaged by disease, didn't know if he'd ever be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And if he did make it, Hayes wasn't sure he'd be alive to see the day. In 1999, he made an emotional October trip to Washington, D.C., to visit his older sister, Lucille Hester. In a hotel restaurant, they discussed a variety of subjects, including what he wanted her to say if his dream of getting into the Hall of...

After counting down the seconds until the final buzzer, I lined up my girls to wish the opposing team well, and then headed into the locker room for our post game rituals. After the girls and I said our goodbyes, I headed home to reflect like I always do after every game. But this was no ordinary game. Little did I know that in the next eight days, Barry Horn would write an article for Dallas Morning News about our 100-0 win over Dallas Academy that would start a firestorm of articles, nationally broadcasted news stories, and hateful email about...

Something tells me the inventor of basketball planned neither on 100-0 winners nor 100-point-loser celebrities. I just threw up in my Raisin Bran. Now, where'd I ... put ... my ... ah, there it is ... soap box. America has gone softer than Bob Dole without his Viagra and it makes me sick. In short, on ABC's Good Morning America Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer are taking a team of local high school girls basketball players and putting them on a national pedastal as heroes that deserve "praise for their poise and grace against an overwhelming opponent." So what did...

A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 blowout has apologized to the losing school, calling the game "shameful and an embarrassment."

The Dallas Peace Center is having a rally entitled "No War Criminals in our Neighborhood" on Mockingbird Bridge over Central Expressway at 4pm on Tuesday. We need to get some people out there to counter demonstrate.

President Bush's term in office is now numbered in days. As we saw for ourselves during his visit to Texas A&M last month, the President appears to be much more relaxed and reflective as his time winds down. Julie Hays from our sister station KWTX News 10 recently set down with the first couple to talk about their time spent in Central Texas during the White House years; days the President and Mrs. Bush recall fondly. Julie You have a lot of foreign dignitaries that have visited the ranch. Anything unusual that comes to mind that happened during one of...

Here is a local news report from Dallas about the traffic nightmare that has been created in the neighborhood that President George W. Bush and wife Laura will move into once he leaves office. Daily, a steady stream of interested onlookers make their way down the private cul-de-sac to see where the Bushes will live. . . . (watch video)

By TANYA EISERER and SCOTT GOLDSTEIN Flags at Dallas police headquarters flew at half-mast today and funeral arrangements were being made for a veteran officer who was fatally shot a day before his 18th year with the force. A funeral was tentatively scheduled Friday for Senior Cpl. Norman Smith, 43, who was shot in the head Tuesday evening in the 4900 block of Wadsworth Drive while attempting to serve a felony warrant. He was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas where he died. Charles Patrick Payne, who has been charged with capital murder, was denied bond and placed...