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Fort Worth Implements Stage 1 Water Restrictions
"The watering restrictions apply to all 225,000 Fort Worth retail accounts, including those outside the city limits. It also applies to wholesale customers, the other entities that purchase treated water and resell it. In accordance with their contract, wholesale customers must enact the same restrictions as Fort Worth. The wholesale customers that regularly purchase water are Aledo, ...
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Victory Parks The House sees boost with leasing option
The House at Victory Park in Dallas has seen a boost in its occupancy rate since it began leasing homes. The House, a luxury high-rise condo development in Victory Park, has seen its occupancy rate rise to more than 70 percent occupied after offering its condo units for lease in the past year. The 28-story tower's condos have only previously been offered for sale. But last year, Premier ...
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Despite rain water restrictions coming to North Texas
The Tarrant Regional Water District will implement mandatory water restrictions June 3, limiting irrigation to twice a week for most Tarrant County cities. It feels strange to talk about water restrictions with thunderstorm clouds on the horizon but hey, this is Texas. Most cities in North Texas will have to observe mandatory water restrictions in June if they aren't already. The Tarrant ...
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Park Gates at City Place in Dallas gets new owner
Park Gates at City Place was sold by The Connor Group to a new investor. In the second property sale this month, Ohio-based The Connor Group has sold Park Gates at City Place, a 228-unit apartment property in East Dallas. Terms of the deal, including the investor purchasing the property, were undisclosed, a company official told me Tuesday. The Connor Group owned the East Dallas property for six ...
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Against attorneys advice man convicted of drowning sons will testify in punishment phase
A family photo was displayed at the boys' funeral in August 2011. Naim Rasool Muhammad will take the stand this afternoon at his trial where he faces the death penalty for drowning his sons in a smelly, shallow creek. Muhammad told visiting judge Quay Parker outside the jury’s presence that by deciding to testify he meant ';no disrespect'; to his attorneys who have advised ...
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Bill to provide crisis training for Texas K-12 educators with CHLs goes to governor
Left to right, Ruby Young Elementary School fourth grade teachers Mike Causey and Lisa Deguchi of DeSoto sign up for gun range time during a concealed handgun licensing class for area teachers and educators in Kennedale, ...
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SP cuts rating on J.C. Penneys term loan
Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on J.C. Penney's term loan. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday announced it is lowering the rating it gave Plano-based J.C. Penney's term loan further into junk status, to "B-" from "B." Bloomberg Businessweek cited an AP story that said the service cut the rating because Penney (NYSE: JCP) raised the size of ...
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Enhanced threat of torndaoes hail and flooding in Dallas area today
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed the Dallas area within an enhanced tornado risk zone today (Tuesday May 21). The 10% contour shown on the SPC map here represents a significant tornado threat. Large hail, damaging winds are torrential rain are also in the ...
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Texas Republican Women endorse driving permits for immigrants
Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, has taken heat from Republican colleagues for a repeated effort to provide a pathway to driver permitting for illegal immigrants. After various police departments approached him, Cook took on the task of convincing other lawmakers that it made sense to create a special permit. First, it would allow illegal immigrants to obtain car and liability insurance. That ...
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Man hospitalized after disturbance shooting in Mesquite apartment complex
A man was shot multiple times during a disturbance early Tuesday morning in a Mesquite apartment complex. Mesquite police were called at about 2 a.m. to the the Peachtree Apartments in the 1400 block of Peachtree Road. Police had received reports of multiple people shouting and several gunshots, according to department spokesman Brian Parrish. Parrish said several cars were involved with the ...
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Dallas Police Association furious over bill restricting cellphone tracking
A bill that would ban police from tracking cellphones without probable cause won preliminary approval by a cheering Texas House on Monday, angering police across the state who were fighting the provision they say will strip them of a valuable life-saving and crime-fighting tool. ';It’s going to kill people,'; said Frederick Frazier,political action committee chairman and first ...
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Chases Dimon survives vote to split chairman CEO jobs
Jamie Dimon will remain as CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon will keep his titles of chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. after shareholders voted down a proposal to split the company's top two jobs. The New York Times reported that New York City-based Chase (NYSE: JPM), the nation's largest banking company, also saw its entire board of 11 directors re-elected. ...
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Connor Group sells another Dallas apartment complex
Connor Group has sold its 228-unit Park Gates at City Place in Dallas. The Connor Group has sold a property in Dallas, its second this month. The Centerville-based real estate investment firm sold Park Gates at City Place to an undisclosed buyer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Connor Group had owned the 228-unit community for six years. With this sale, the company now owns and ...
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Sprinkles readies Dallas cupcake ATM looks at Fort Worth location
Sprinkles Cupcakes is looking to expand to Forth Worth, according to a company spokeswoman. The site would be the company's second North Texas location. Sprinkles Cupcakes has turned its attention to Fort Worth, after spending the past year planning new additions to Dallas, a company spokeswoman said. Joanne Yurich said Sprinkles is looking for sites in Fort Worth for its second North Texas ...
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Texas lawmakers pave way for stronger craft beer industry
The five bills that passed through the Senate provide a new approach to help grow the expanding craft beer industry and update several business practices and regulatory issues in the Alcoholic Beverage Code, according to the Beer Alliance of Texas. Its bottoms up for craft beer brewers in Texas after the House passed a package of bills Monday to help create a more robust craft beer ...
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Time running out for state water plan in Austin
The Texas Legislature has until Monday to approve a resolution that would put a constitutional amendment on the ballot for November. Voters would then decide whether to take $2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to pay for water infrastructure and conservation projects. The first of two bills that deal with the states water infrastructure got final approval from the Texas Legislature ...
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Back surgery has Tony Romo out of Cowboys practices
Tony Romo had a cyst removed from his back last month. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo won't be on the field Tuesday when off-season workouts begin for the team at its Valley Ranch facility in Irving. The team said that Romo, who signed a $108 million contract extension in March, will be getting time to heal after he had a troublesome cyst removed last month from his back. The Cowboys ...
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ATT unlimited data customers to get video calling ability
Apple's FaceTime app is a popular way for video calling on the iPhone. Dallas-based AT&T Inc.'s ban on its unlimited data iPhone users from making calls using the phone's popular FaceTime feature soon may be over. The Los Angeles Times reported that AT&T will allow software and smartphone makers the ability to enable video calling for unlimited data customers on preinstalled apps on ...
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Sprint boosts offer for Clearwire to $10.7B
Sprint already is the majority owner of Clearwire Corp., but it wants to buy the remaining shares. Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday boosted its offer for Clearwire Corp. by 14 percent to about $10.7 billion. Sprint already is the majority owner of Clearwire. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint (NYSE: S) raised its offer from $2.97 per share to $3.40 per share in an attempt to win over ...
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Construction progresses at Exxon Mobils Houston campus
Miscellaneous views of the new Exxon Mobil campus under construction in Spring, Texas. Friday, April 12, 2013. (Photo by Michael Stravato) Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. is building a 20-building campus on 385 acres in north Houston, and according to the Houston Business Journal, it's one of the largest construction projects under way in the United States. The HBJ got a sneak peek at the ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Death Toll Lowered
Flipped vehicles are piled up outside the heavily damaged Moore Medical Center after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, ...
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D-FW home foreclosures down almost 40 percent this year
(DMN files) So far in 2013, Dallas-Fort Worth area home foreclosure filings have dropped by almost 40 percent from where they were in the first six months of 2012. And the number of homes threatened for forced sale by lenders next month is 43 percent below year-ago levels. If the foreclosure activity continues to drop at current levels, 2013 could see the lowest number of home foreclosure ...
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Dallas-Fort Worth will see potential for severe weather beginning around lunchtime
were predicting thunderstorms for Dallas-Fort Worth today, though nothing severe. That has changed. ';There are a lot of ingredients in place for this to be a pretty significant weather outbreak,'; says Dan Shoemaker early Tuesday morning. The storms — among them those spinning, tornado-producing super cells — are expected to begin arriving between 10 and 11 a.m. and ...
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Fort Worth Police Searching for Missing Boy
The boy's mother told police the boy was told to take out the trash at his home in the 5700 block of Blackmon Court in north Fort Worth. The boy went outside but never came back ...
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Boeheim on Melos title hopes Not on that team MAY 21
07:10 AM ET 05.21 | His former head coach has picked a side, and it's squarely in the corner of his one-time star forward. Jim Boeheim maintains little hope that former Syracuse ...
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Dallas city core development hindered by roadways
The Dallas freeway loop is a series of highways that wrap round the center of Downtown Dallas, built at a time when the inter-connectivity of neighborhoods was not yet appreciated, but with changing attitudes, a series of projects are underway to enhance the appeal of downtown.
Downtown Dallas, it’s the heart of the city, which is the commercial hub of Dallas County and the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest in the entire United States. Yet, this area’s full potential has been hindered by a zoning decision in the 1980s that saw major freeways routed through the city and created a complex ring of highways (the Dallas freeway loop) around the core downtown area. Read more
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