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DALLAS — Few broadcasters had a bigger impact on North Texas than Jerry Haynes, who has died at age 84. He died Monday morning at a nursing facility in Longview from complications due to Parkinson's Disease with family at his side. "I helped raise families you know," Haynes said in a 2008 interview with News 8. "So, I was in people's living rooms every day as they were getting dressed and eating their cereal. So I'm a buddy. They saw me. I didn't see them." But the public man also had a private life, his children remembered. "As a very...

The gay conservative group GOProud doesn’t regret inviting real-estate mogul and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at a conservative conference last week, even though he donated $50,000 to former White House Chief of Staff and Democratic Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel. “We have absolutely no regrets in inviting and promoting Mr. Trump at CPAC,” GOProud Chairman Christopher Barron told The Daily Caller. “Why in the world would we? Mr. Trump stole the show on Thursday, brought new energy and enthusiasm to the conference and delivered a hell of a speech.” Trump was a last-minute surprise addition...

SURFING'S equivalent of Brokeback Mountain is being filmed on Sydney's northern beaches. Directed by Ed Aldridge, a Brit, it's called Tan Lines, about two gay surfers in a small town somewhere on the NSW coast, and managed a few media mentions here when announced last year. But it took a London newspaper to discover that Manly surfers are outraged about it. The Independent on Sunday devoted a two-page spread in its latest issue to previewing the beginning of shooting this week, before it heads to Newcastle in March. The paper interviewed a bunch of Manly's finest, who excelled at creating...

Rev. Gene Robinson Confirmed As Episcopal Church Bishop