Story archive for September 2007

Sunday, Sept. 30

• Police arrest four in northeast Dallas, recover stolen Halloween decorations

• Seattle Mariners 4, Texas Rangers 2

• Collin College announces 2007 “Living Legends”; ceremony is Nov. 10

• Dallas Cowboys 35, St. Louis Rams 7

• Movie Review: Across the Universe

• Movie Review: Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

• Bayles Fest will bring together neighbors with health, finance, food and fun on October 13

• Police arrest three in mobile methamphetamine lab in northwest Fort Worth

• Southlake teen dies in car accident

• Lewisville-based KumoTek to unveil latest humanoid robot at nanoTX’07

• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will fly daily from Amsterdam to DFW starting in 2008

• Tickets to Hannah Montana show at Fort Worth Convention Center sold out quickly

• Funeral of murdered student Melanie Goodwin draws 1,500 to Arlington church

• UPDATED: Fifth annual corny dog competition going down at State Fair of Texas on Sunday

• Dallas Stars 5, Tampa Bay Lightning 1 (Preseason)

• Seattle Mariners 5, Texas Rangers 1

• Arkansas 66, UNT 7

• Dance Review: MOMIX

Saturday, Sept. 29

• TCU 24, Colorado State 12

• UTEP 48, SMU 45 (OT)

• Gloves are off as Trinity vote looms

• Southlake man arrested in DC attack based on Facebook evidence

• United Methodist opponents of George W. Bush Library and Institute vow to continue fight

• Frisco negotiating with Dallas Stars to expand DrPepper Star Center

• PlainsCapital putting not one but TWO bank locations at Victory Park

• Former Dallas Cowboy Chad Hennings loses workers compensation claim

• Shoplifter leads Dallas police on chase, slams car, carjacks two women in line at Whataburger

• Hitchcocktoberfest creeps into Angelika Plano featuring movies, contest

• Security stepped up at football game between Fort Worth’s Castleberry and Northside High Schools

• City of Frisco enforcing teen curfew

• Former Dallas city councilman Fantroy rejects deal in upcoming corruption case

• Seattle Mariners 6, Texas Rangers 4

Friday, Sept. 28

• Aurora restaurant celebrates fifth year in business, announces new pastry chef

• Dallas Mavericks hire new assistant coach Mario Elie

• Dallas mayor Tom Leppert to be on hand for hotel demolition

• Concert Review: Interpol

• UPDATED: University of North Texas student’s burned body found in Carrollton

• Dallas-based Park Place Dealerships expanding to California

• SMU swimmer Ingraham wins Alcatraz Invitational Swim

• Movie review: Ira and Abby

• TCU gives women’s tennis coach Jeffrey Hammond new contract

• Texan Woman’s volleyball takes 4-set victory over Texas A&M-Kingsville

• Dallas Baptist soccer drops squeaker to St. Mary’s

• Dallas Baptist cross country ranked in national poll

• Dallas Baptist Volleyball beats St. Mary’s in three sets

• UTA cross country teams still highly ranked

• UT Dallas men’s soccer holds on for tie with Mississippi College

• Bridge Breast Network receives donation from Celebrity Cafe and Bakery

• State Representative Kirk England switches to Democratic Party

• McKinney Summer Musicals announces 2008 production

• Rockwall to host Fire Station Open House

• Dallas judge improperly links ability to make bail to appointing counsel

• UTA special collections presents The Power of Pictures

• UPDATED: Fatality accident on Interstate Highway 35E in Carrollton

• Leppert: Dallas and Best Southwest Chamber “united” together

• Dallas radio stations honored with Marconi Awards

• Last weekend for 5 theater productions

• Homeless seek help in Lewisville

• 7 plays, 2 musicals, and 5 children’s shows opening in DFW this weekend

• UT Arlington offering free math prep classes

• MTV Tr3s to air immigration forum

• Fort Worth woman threatens to slap city with lawsuit over “Trinity trees”

• Mercedes Bass becomes Chairman of the Board for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

• Tarrant County gittin’ ready for Pride parade

• Dallas-based ACS wins $111 million Medicaid contract with the District of Columbia

• UTA’s fast-track program yields two degrees in five years

• Prescott Realty Group acquires Fort Worth’s Summit Office Park

• Trailer for upcoming Afghanistan documentary At War features local musician Sarah Jaffe

• Grapevine-based GameStop launching new marketing campaign with Richards Group

• Turtle Creek Chorale prepares to enter the next “Generation”

• Dallas attorneys sued by SEC for selling $18+ million in illegal, unregistered securities

• Children’s Medical Center teams with Angelika Plano for Heidi screening

• Chris Heinbaugh tackles a new beat

• Hurst Fire Department to hold open house

• Irresponsible Duncanville pet owners: this ordinance is for you

• Lancaster names Ed Brady new economic development head

• DeSoto City Council approves traffic cameras in 5-2 vote

• Texas schools to whip out the FITNESSGRAM, measure student fitness annually

• Armed man surrenders after two-hour standoff in south Dallas

• UT Dallas Faculty at Five to feature Acoustic Quartet on Oct. 10

• Mansfield High School student caught with child porn, faces suspicion of sexual assault

• Rival Fort Worth students rope, drag, destroy Castleberry High School’s concrete mascot

• Movie review: Trade

• City of Dallas approves annual budget of $2.65 billion

• Anonymous Dallas guy spent $47K to get his kid a bit role in a Will Ferrell movie

• Dallas Stars 3, Phoenix Coyotes 2 (OT) (Preseason)

• Movie review: Into the Wild

• Baseball As America Opens at the Museum of Nature and Science

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - September 26, week 25

Thursday, Sept. 27

• Upscale mall opens in Highland Village

• New episode of Mandrake Society Radio focuses on Dallas Black Gay Pride week

• CD Review: The Reverend Organ Drum

• Pegasus’ Professional NFL Expert Picks - Week 4

• Irving-based Zale announces agreement to sell Bailey Banks & Biddle for $200 million

• Studio Movie Grill to open on Royal and 75 in Dallas in 2008

• Prison Break shootout on Harry Hines Wednesday will not be real

• TEA to audit Lancaster ISD

• City of Dallas to hold Harambee Festival on October 27

• Addison Oktoberfest draws over 58,000 people

• UPDATED: Indictments “imminent” in Dallas City Hall investigation

• Dallas iMedia Youth Channel set to launch on October 4

• Murphy man arrested for impersonating an officer

• Denton boy found dead in swimming pool

• Dallas-based Titan Global Holdings to acquire USA Detergents

• Ex-Mav Roy Tarpley files discrimination suit against the Mavericks, NBA

• Dallas ISD set to dedicate Hector P. Garcia Middle School

• $550,000 in sculptures donated to UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth

• Slocum Street Antiques and Design Association present 9th annual “Slocum Street Style”

• UT Southwestern best medical school for Hispanics

• Creative Arts Theatre & School fires and eliminates Executive Director position

• Vern’s Place finds new home in Deep Ellum

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Rhonda Blair

• 500X Gallery presents: “Morning Sundae,” featuring new works by Natalie Macellaio, Lesli Robertson and Brian Spolans

• 93-year-old McKinney ancestor awarded high school diploma

• Parolee leads Dallas police on wild overnight chase

• Centro-matic / Jason Isbell show available for download

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Revising the Goal Songs

• Woman held for fatal shooting of man in East Dallas

• Silver Alert issued for missing Dallas man

• Accused Southlake juvenile trespassers could still face jail time

• Rahim Quazi releases Carter Albrecht tribute song

• Texas Blues Museum on tap for Arlington

• DISD tightens controls over spending of federal grant money

• New York car thief captured in Dallas

• ArtCentre of Plano receives NEA Grant

• Dallas donors contribute over $1 million each to state political campaigns

Wednesday, Sept. 26

• Top Chef: Episode thirteen

• 2008 Guaranty Bank SMU Athletic Forum speakers announced

• Tarrant County-based Worthington National Bank honored by American Bankers Association

• Corinth Mayor Vic Burgess says good leadership is having good vision and staying focused

• Texas Rangers 16, LA Angels 2

• UPDATED Dancing with the Stars Mark Cuban watch: Week One

• Contemporary Theatre of Dallas set to preview and open Right Ho, Jeeves

• Duncanville Community Theatre announces 2007-2008 season

• Mesquite ISD selects first projects to be funded with new bond money

• Concert Review: Every Time I Die

• KERA’s THINK interviews Michael Auping of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

• Dallas.org launches DISD per diem database

• New high school sports magazine debuts in Collin County

• Sicko reopens at Grapevine theater

• Dallas to spray for mosquitoes in response to West Nile case

• Teatro de la Rosa kicks off 5th season with Conference of the Birds this weekend

• Gaylord Parkway exit ramp on Tollway closed Thursday night

• Mesquite ISD tax rate drops 17 percent

• Arlington police trying facial reconstruction to identify murdered woman

• New book celebrates rise of Latina-owned businesses

• Roadtripping Texas Wesleyan volleyball sweeps matches

• GM’s Arlington plant to re-open after UAW recesses strike

• TCU implements emergency alert text messaging plan

• UT Dallas’ Siddique finishes in top 10 at Louisiana College Tournament

• Dow Jones Sustainability World Index ranks Kimberly-Clark No. 1 for third consecutive year

• UT Dallas volleyball sweeps match over LeTourneau

• Ross Perot selling off his copy of the Magna Carta

• Hidden camera found in ceiling at Carroll Senior High in Southlake

• Keller educator named State Elementary Teacher of the Year

• FedEx truck gets in accident, spews packages all over freeway north of Fort Worth

• Dallas police to evaluate suspect ID procedures

• Irving’s Lee Elementary conducts surprise lockdown drill

• DART construction in Fair Park on hold during Texas State Fair

• Dallas man dies in police custody

• Author Sandra Cisneros speaks at Irving High School

• Allen’s Kerr Elementary receives two environmental awards

• Kaufman County Jail escapee caught by police using spike strips

• Suez Energy Resources gets contract to supply city of Dallas with 90% of its electricity

• Former department store to house Fort Worth Police crime lab

• Hutchins city officials battle Commissioner Price over funding for streets, parks

• Northwest Dallas shopping center damaged in blaze

• UPDATED: Accident on Arlington highway results in toddler’s death

• EDS agrees to pay $490,000 fine to SEC

• Galleria Towers to be put up for sale

• Dallas Stars 5, Colorado Avalanche 4 (OT) (Preseason)

• Texas man sues Medtronic in “body-snatching” case

• Theater Review Part Deux: Urinetown

Tuesday, Sept. 25

• The Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce opens in Richardson

• Texas Rangers 3, LA Angels 1

• Richland’s Nolan Dennis makes RiseMag.com’s  rankings

• Arlington to celebrate reopening of Fire Station No. 7

• Teen Court returns to Arlington Municipal Court

• Lighting up Feliz Navidad or Farmers Branch revisited

• Dallas Baptist volleyball falls to University of Central Oklahoma

• UPDATED: Police investigating burnt, lifeless body of UNT student discovered in Carrollton

• Dallas Baptist golf team shoots lowest score in school history

• TWU volleyball sweeps Red River weekly awards

• Texas Wesleyan’s Richeson named Red River player of the week

• Texas Wesleyan’s O’Brien earn pair of soccer honors

• TCU women’s golfer has strong opening round

• TCU’s Huffman named Road Warrior of the Week

• TCU cross country teams ranked in top 15 of region

• Dancing with the Stars rules Monday night

• Cowboys dominate weekend ratings

• Director interview: David Hoffman for Sputnik Mania

• U.S.P.S. releases stamp to honor Hispanic Heritage month

• Jubilee Theatre previews Permanent Collection this week

• Fort Worth to close “eyesore” Victorian Inn

• SMU hosts lecture on history of Latinos in U.S.

• Fort Worth Business Press sold to Cincinnati publishing company

• Northpark Center opens photography exhibit Through the Eyes of the Condor on September 26

• Dallas-based HAVOC signs celebrity strongman competitor Jon Andersen

• Oxford Global Resources comes to Dallas area

• ExxonMobil awards $1 million to Society of Exploration Geophysicists

• Plano-based TGC Industries agrees to purchase seven new Vibrator Vehicles

• Dallas-based Belo announces strategic partnership with Mochila

• Dance performance “Visual Translation” at UT Dallas Oct. 12 and 13

• Collin College offers video game design course

• Big 12: The preseason is over

• UNT endowment brings Czech orchestra and film crew to Texas

• Efficient appliances can reduce carbon footprint in Dallas-Fort Worth, says appliance maker

• Burleson to celebrate Founders Day in Old Town October 13

• Rat encounters are becoming more frequent in area neighborhoods

• Dallas-based ACS opening customer-service branch in Indianapolis area

• Irving police to meet with members of the community Monday to discuss deportation plan

• Autonomy etalk moving headquarters from Irving to downtown Dallas

• Weatherford man finds out his bone implant was stolen from a cadaver

• Dallas ISD secretary convicted of credit-card theft headed to prison for 18 months

• City of Farmers Branch asked CFBISD for names and addresses of children attending schools

• Construction on Mockingbird Lane about to wreak havoc in Highland Park

• Texas Rangers 8, LA Angels 7

• SMU Theatre opens season with Stuff Happens for this week only

• City of Rowlett adopts 2008 FY budget

Monday, Sept. 24

• New Interview: ClaAs

• Heartland Bread Co. relocates from Plano to Dallas

• Boundaries between photography and other visual arts crossed with premier exhibit and grand opening of Light & Sie

• Cowboys rookies celebrate Hispanic heritage at Mi Escuelita on Sept. 25

• Concert Review: Wall of Sound

• Theater Review: Urinetown has been sanitized

• UNT’s One O’Clock Lab Band brings it to UTD

• U.S. Justice Department extends UTD wireless tech research contract

• Dallas-based Fish & Richardson named Top Intellectual Property Counsel

• SMU volleyball drops heartbreaker to East Carolina

• SMU’s Neveklovska wins singles title at Rice Invitational

• SMU’s Guarda scores last-minute win for men’s soccer

• The Amon Carter Museum offers new education programs for groups with cognitive disabilities, Alzheimer’s

• SMU’s Gunter shines in loss to #16 OSU

• TCU soccer no match for #20 Missouri

• Tickets on sale for MBS Productions’ Theatre of Death

• Collin County Ballet Theatre announces Nutcracker auditions

• TCU equestrian team falls in tiebreaker to Georgia

• UPDATED: Inmate from Collin County recaptured after escape from Huntsville prison

• McKinney Avenue Contemporary is pleased to announce Dawn DeDeaux’s “Pattern: The Order of Chaos”

• American National Bank to Acquire DNB Bancshares and its subsidiary, Dallas National Bank

• TCU’s Powers falls in semifinals at Baylor Intercollegiate

• UTA volleyball takes straight set win over UTSA

• UTA men’s tennis falls short at Baylor Invitational

• UTA cross country fares well at Texas A&M Invitational

• TCU Theatre opens mainstage season with Anatomy of Gray this week

• Son of Nikita Khrushchev will discuss 50th anniversary of Sputnik launch

• UTA’s Jagosova and Hadvigerova take second at Rice Classic

• No money to fix jail, but Dallas Sheriff says she can afford new SWAT team

• Alumni donate money to UTA’s School of Architecture

• Dallas-based Tyler Technologies wins $2.5 million contract with Nueces County

• Union strike to affect 2,700 workers at GM’s Arlington plant

• New Dallas Cowboys Stadium to be used in GIS demonstration

• Frisco’s Liberty High School band to march, play private performances for cash

• Children’s Cancer Fund to host “Laugh It Up” comedy event

• Retired Frisco cop stops robbery with cane

• Man arrested after ramming Duncanville police car

• Holy Trinity Catholic School receives $100,000 from “guardian angel”

• Downtown’s Dallas Fish Market doing lunch

• “Cheese” overdose ruled as cause of death for two Tarrant County residents

• Irving ISD wins “Best of Web” award

• UPDATED: Angelika Dallas hosts Chick Flicks film festival

• DIFFA/Dallas presents grants to 18 AIDS service organizations in North Texas

• Irving’s Britain Elementary holds clothing drive for Peru earthquake victims

• Latino firefighters to gather for convention in Dallas

• UPDATED: Missing child alert: Ana-Alicia Mascorro possibly traveling to Plano

• Two men and Garland police officer shot

• Coppell Farmers Market to host “Old Town Fall Festival” October 6th

• Addison’s WaterTower theatre looking for a few good ushers

• North Richland Hills library selling off a bunch of cheap books

• UT Arlington holds 18th annual Oozeball Tournament

• Farmers Branch library removes artist’s work

• Film composer Sujin Nam will lecture at UT Dallas Oct. 17

• UPDATED: DART Rail delays this morning

• Dallas to host 2008 USA Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championships June 26-July 5

• UPDATED: Defense to present case in trial of Dallas man who allegedly stabbed and lit dog “Mercy” on fire

• Drag racer gets into major-league collision in Ennis

Sunday, Sept. 23

• Dallas Cowboys 34, Chicago Bears 10

• Texas Rangers 3, Baltimore Orioles 0

• Movie review: Live-in Maid

• Pegasus Interviews Dale Petroskey, President of the Baseball Hall of Fame

• Concert Review: Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Hinder at Nokia

• Pegasus Interviews Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett

• Pegasus Interviews Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer

• Pegasus Interviews Baseball Hall of Famer Billy Williams

• Pegasus Interviews Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins

• Theater Review: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

• Dallas ISD gets GPS on its school buses

• Tarrant County College fall enrollment up by more than 8 percent

• Gas line rupture shuts down traffic Saturday in northeast Dallas

• HDNet hires strategic consultant

• Dallas-based Atmos files request for rate increase

• Campaign video for pro-Trinity tollroad camp inaccurate and misleading

• UPDATED: Teen shot and killed outside Fort Worth shopping center

• Oncor employee electrocuted on the job in Forest Hill

• Dallas undercover officer fatally shoots man

• Texas Christian University 21, Southern Methodist University 7

• Florida Atlantic 30, University of North Texas 20

• Baltimore Orioles 11, Texas Rangers 9

• Phoenix Coyotes 6, Dallas Stars 5 (Preseason)

Saturday, Sept. 22

• Plano Balloon Festival in three photos

• Movie review: The Hunting Party

• CD Review: Juicy the Emissary’s The New World Renaissance Mixtape #1

• Forbes Top-400 Richest Americans list includes 23 from Dallas-Fort Worth

• UT Dallas instituting emergency warning system

• Collision between truck and car shuts down I-30 westbound on Friday night

• Oak Cliff pharmacy suffers 13th robbery this year

• City of Irving diligent on illegal immigrant situation

• Two brothers shot dead in front yard in Fort Worth

• Dallas-based Heritage sells postcard from astronaut Buzz Aldrin for $180K

• Dallas police discover warehouse loaded with stolen goods, arrest four people

• Dallas-based Texas Instruments will buy back $5 billion more shares

• TxDOT gets federal OK to widen 78 north of President George Bush Turnpike

• Texas Rangers 3, Baltimore Orioles 2

Friday, Sept. 21

• Movie review: Sea of Dreams

• Movie Taverns in Dallas area host limited engagement for Donkey Kong documentary

• SMU men’s soccer overwhelms Centenary, 5-1

• TCU women’s basketball player to play for Cameroon national team

• Risk Theatre Initiative reveals new logo and announces Potty Party

• McKinney appoints Collin County regional airport board members

• TCU tennis opens season today at H.E.B. Baylor Intercollegiate

• TCU baseball announces 2008 schedule

• TCU volleyball rallies for 3-1 win over Wyoming

• UTA volleyball opens conference play with win

• UT Arlington’s Jagosova invited to pre-qualifying for ITA All-American Championship

• Judge Judy closing in on Oprah

• “Get Motivated” seminars on Sept. 25 likely to clog DART Rail

• DCCCD receives gift to aid future teachers

• DCCCD receives state and federal grants

• UT Arlington art professor chosen for fellowship at Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Three DCCCD newspapers named tops in country

• Last weekend to see these 9 theater productions

• DFW Theater Critics bestow awards

• FC Dallas 1, Chicago Fire 1

• Dallas Theatre League’s interim president faces public indecency prosecution

• New round of plays and musicals for DFW this weekend

• Parkland to consider domestic partner benefits

• Pride on parade in Dallas

• Mario Lopez to visit Garland to promote dance as exercise

• Search on for missing Desoto teenager

• Grand Prairie’s Uptown Theater restored, brings tears to eyes

• Moody’s upgrades Cedar Hill’s financial rating

• Taylor Swift’s music featured on FOX’s Nashville Friday night

• T.O. touts himself Cowboys’ unofficial ‘fifth’ captain

• Interview: Brave Combo headman Carl Finch

• DeSoto’s Hampton Road Baptist to celebrate 60 years

• Mansion on Turtle Creek hires new wine and beverage director

• Dallas family sues phone company over ad using Flickr photo

• 15 pairs of twins enrolled at Hatfield Elementary in Justin, Texas

• Cops still looking for couple who robbed Wireless Solutions in Dallas

• This just in: mushrooms sometimes grow in Dallas, possibly Fort Worth

• Arlington police warn public about two men posing as police officers

• Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD touts the most evil invention known to children since Spinach

• Arlington priest banned from Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese

• Colorado Avs 6, Dallas Stars 3 (Preseason)

• Restaurant Review: Kampai Sushi & Grill

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - September 20, week 24

Thursday, Sept. 20

• Baltimore Orioles 6, Texas Rangers 3 (10 Innings)

• Plano homeowners held at gunpoint; burglarized

• Dallas Stars holding “write your own billboard” contest

• Plano-based LifeCare opens new facility in Wisconsin

• Fort Worth-based Bombay Company files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

• American Heart Association launches first-ever cardiac rehabilitation website

• Shock of Pleasure to play live on 102.1 the Edge

• Foundation for Community Empowerment to host Family Fun Fair on Sept. 22nd

• The Dallas Margarita Ball celebrates 31 years

• Kevin Deal hits #14 on Gavin Americana chart

• Dallas North Tollway to open section in Frisco

• Dallas-based Manchester, Inc. to acquire Value Systems, Inc. and MVP Finance, Inc.

• Irving-based Commercial Metals Company acquires Economy Steel

• Movie review: In the Shadow of the Moon

• Forbes honors Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder Nancy G. Brinker

• Pegasus’ Professional NFL Expert Picks - Week 3

• DART trains between Mockingbird and West End to be replaced by shuttles September 22-23

• Bring a friend to the Dallas Opera for free

• SMU anthropologist studies diabetes epidemic among Arizona’s Pima Indians

• UPDATED and corrected: Dallas high school locked down after report of gun

• Eastfield College to break ground on Learning Studios building

• Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre previews and opens The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds this weekend

• Fort Worth Zoo building new digs for amphibians and reptiles

• Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Center presents Bob Stuth-Wade’s “Born by Water”

• Dallas cartoonist picks up where Ken Burns leaves off

• TCU’s Upward Bound program preps future freshmen for college

• Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum announces annual awards

• Arlington residents forced out of homes after apartment foreclosure

• Arlington ISD refusing to pay its water bill

• Dead man delivered to Fort Worth hospital in back of pickup

• Carrollton celebrates Old Downtown Carrollton Association’s Santa Fe Days Oct. 13-14

• Oak Cliff Metro PCS store robbed

• Tickets to RBD, M.I.A., Alice Cooper, Dickies 500 Nascar & more on sale soon

• Dallas County constables bulking up their duties

• Dallas-based TGI Friday’s adds new menu items

• Vandalized Virgin Mary to be repaired at Dallas church

• Schepps offers reward in case of missing boy

• Allen teenager in critical condition after bike-car accident

• Grand jury will not indict Haltom City Police Chief Ken Burton

• Hyatt to undertake $55-million renovation of Reunion Tower and Union Station

• Argyle High students arrested, hospitalized after discovered with ‘shrooms

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Why the Flyers Will Win the Cup

• Dallas Wind Symphony opened 2007-08 season on Tuesday

• Dallas ranked 5th-best WiFi usage in the whole world

• Home Depot shuts down Landscape Supply stores, including six in Dallas

• Fort Worth Firefighters respond to call, exposed to burning mercury

• Mortgage office in Dallas is shut down, 63 employees laid off

• Southwest Airlines adjusts boarding routine but still no assigned seats

• Terrell-based American National Bank acquires Dallas National Bank

• 18-wheeler collides with pickup in Mansfield, one dead

• Holy Land Muslim charity trial in Dallas goes to jury

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Katherine Owens

• “Dirty South Block Party” goes off air in December (Interview with Bo Bo Luchiano and DJ Fish)

Wednesday, Sept. 19

• Top Chef: Episode twelve

• Minnesota Twins 4, Texas Rangers 2

• Tampa Bay Lightning 4, Dallas Stars 3 (OT) (Preseason)

• Cowboys’ Terrell Owens fined $7500 for mock videotape TD celebration

• Female boxer dog “Gracie Marie” lost in Creekside Estates neighborhood

• October schedule announced for Children’s Activity Series at Northpark Center

• Blue Shoe Project to share the blues with T.J. Lee Elementary

• McKinney’s Wolford Elementary celebrating “Freedom Week,” recognize completed U.S. citizenship of staff members

• UNT poli sci major wins scholarship, will meet with Governor Perry

• McKinney City Council approves $200K in grants to 20 area arts groups

• Neely School of Business named one of the best b-schools for Hispanics

• TxDOT to re-stripe US 75 at Live Oak exit on Sunday

• Author to speak to Club 360° Middle School students about engineering

• Fort Worth-based Tandy Leather Factory opens retail store in Anchorage, Alaska

• Grapevine-based GameStop to host Halo 3 launch events nationwide

• Dallas-based GodTube.com sets record as #1 fastest growing website in U.S. in first month of launch

• UTA volleyball survives scare from Ball State

• Five Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics to be displayed at The Crow Collection of Asian Art

• Texas Instruments allocates $15 million to fund medical technology research

• Former UT Dallas student sentenced to six years

• SMU’s Morstead named to 2007 Ray Guy Award Watch List

• Grand Prairie approves “emergency” sink hole repairs, among other things

• UNT’s Howard finishes strong at Kansas Invitational

• TCU’s Strong named Sun Belt Conference runner of the week again

• DART initiating service changes on DART Rail and TRE Express October 1

• UNT volleyball takes Stephen F. Austin to the limit

• Texas Wesleyan men’s soccer falls to University of Science & Arts

• Texas Wesleyan soccer plays to a draw

• Texas Wesleyan golf wins second tournament in a row

• Texas Wesleyan volleyball defeats Southern Nazarene

• TCU tennis’ Cotet earns trip to main draw of Futures event

• TCU tennis’ Munch-Soegaard earns opening round doubles victory

• UT Arlington men’s golf shares Texas Cup title

• Texas Board of Education recognizes volunteer “heroes”

• Dallas Producers Association hosts “It Came From Dallas” (part three)

• UT Dallas golfer finishes second at Lady Comet Classic

• UT Dallas volleyball starts off conference season 2-0

• Colby Savage set to release Beautiful on November 22

• Past Dallas DAs concealed exculpatory polygraph in capital case

• Dallas traffic is the worst in the country

• Dallas councilman wants to ban saggy pants in Dallas

• Pregnant teller held up at Arlington bank

• UPDATED: Haltom City burn victim dies; mother now faces capital murder charge

• Suspicious man reported in University Park

• UTA opens new activities center

• McKinney ISD sued by former cheerleading coach

• City of Dallas to educate Asian community on business codes

• Dallas Police arrest murder suspect accused of stabbing a woman and two boys

• Ransom will release All For You at The Aardvark on Sept. 22

• Two men arrested in Fort Worth for string of car burglaries

• Kitchen Dog Theater opens new season with area premiere of Man from Nebraska this week

• The Door moves into Gypsy Tea Room to not-so-rave review

• New song from Sleezus Fist and the Latter Day Taints

Tuesday, Sept. 18

• Minnesota Twins 4, Texas Rangers 2

• Audio interview: Venton Jones of Abounding Prosperity

• Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla suspended 7 games

• Income tax assistance volunteers sought in White Rock Hills

• Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Poltergeist at a theater near you

• Ferguson Road Initiative awarded Project Safe Neighborhoods / Anti-gang violence grant

• Ferguson Road Initiative needs volunteer office help

• Carrollton City Hall evacuated because of suspicious briefcase

• Music Theatre of Denton’s 2007-2008 season

• A walk in Tandy Hills Park

• Pappas Bros. Steakhouse in Dallas appoints new sommelier

• Dallas Cowboys sign Tank Johnson for two years

• Traffic study shows increase in congestion in Dallas area and throughout U.S.

• Tickets now on sale for Dallas Theater Center’s Glengarry Glen Ross

• Public Utility Commission reduces TXU’s penalty to $171 million

• Ex-Dallas musician Aden Holt to climb Mount Everest with cancer-surviving rock stars

• Fort Worth robbery suspect arrested

• Football rules Monday night television

• Dallas Summer Musicals brings The Lion King through town this week

• Annual Savor Dallas returns March 7-8 with renewed focus on downtown

• Baseball Hall of Famers to visit Museum of visit Museum of Nature & Science for Baseball As America exhibition

• Actor interview: Johnathon Schaech for Sea of Dreams

• Dallas-based Titan Global Holdings acquires Appalachian Oil Company

• Dallas-based Regions Oil and Gas to acquire 1800 acres and 50 wells

• Dallas-based Thompson Advisory Group acquired by Alcatel-Lucent

• Dallas-based TGIP, Inc. wins $156 million verdict in patent infringement lawsuit against AT&T

• Dallas-area alpaca farms participating in National Alpaca Farm Day Sept. 29-30

• The Hourly Radio to release new EP soon

• Dallas-based Manchester, Inc. to acquire Discovery Byrider and Brightstar Financial Group

• Vistas Film Festival highlights Latino culture

• Man found dead, severely beaten, in Northwest Dallas

• Rocket Queen to be featured on MTV’s Newport Harbor

• Collin County to conduct workshop on county issues

• Kim Richey performing at All Good Cafe on October 4

• City of Dallas wins Best of Web Achievement Award

• AIA 150: America’s Favorite Architecture exhibit featured at UTA

• DART increasing fares October 1

• North Dallas girl on the way to school struck by car in crosswalk

• DART offers shuttle to State Fair

• Stolen ATM recovered in Dallas front yard

• Arlington ISD cancels games after player death

• Celebrate Freedom Week starts in North Texas schools

• Denton city council holds second public hearing on tax rate proposal

• UT Arlington’s Associate Dean of Nursing to co-chair International Committee on Resuscitation

• New gay luchador makes debut at Dallas Pride parade

• Dallas musician Carter Albrecht’s girlfriend warns of drug’s effects

• Holocaust survivors to lecture at UT Arlington

• Child falls from van in North Richland Hills; is then hit by passing car

• Woman suspected of stabbing her Fort Worth girlfriend arrested and charged

• Fort Worth seminary sexism lawsuit may proceed, says judge

• UPDATE: Police investigate potential food tampering at Plano’s Shepton High School

• 360 D Radio: Role models and youth in hip-hop culture

Monday, Sept. 17

• Denton man arrested for strangling ex-girlfriend UNT student

• Minnesota Twins 5, Texas Rangers 4

• Concert Review: Muse

• Wonderfool posts new music and other news from the band

• Omega’s Tex-Mex Cafe re-opens on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum

• SMU women’s tennis notches five wins in first tournament

• SMU men’s tennis dominates Rice Invitational

• Undermain Theatre presents southwest premiere of Shining City this weekend

• Dallas apartment fire displaces three families

• Irving Chorale to perform free gospel music concert

• Lawyers say man accused of killing Dallas policeman unfit for trial

• Educational expert to host TCU symposium on changing teaching paradigms

• Ozone Magazine’s September Rapquest for Dallas/Ft. Worth

• Hawaiian Falls in Garland hosts Operation Kindness

• Bassist Edgar Meyer to perform with UNT Symphony Orchestra

• Grapevine-based Idearc to acquire Switchboard.com from InfoSpace for $225 million

• Third Teen Summit to focus on personal image of teen girls

• SMU Men’s Golf rises through the standings at the Gopher Invite

• Top Turkish National Police official to visit UNT

• Local activists seek to stop domestic violence

• Aurora restaurant welcomes new pastry chef

• Photo Gallery: Dallas Pride Fest 2007

• Irving ISD offering “gold card” benefits to senior citizens

• McKinney students snag journalism, yearbook awards

• Haltom City police fail to catch teen car thief

• Dallas’ USA Film Festival names Nancy Reagan as new board president

• DNA test clears man of 1982 rape

• Rockwall traffic update: Sids & Alamo

• Three children allegedly set on fire by mother improving

• Closing arguments begin on Holy Land trial in Dallas

• Fort Worth police officer injured in wreck

• Downtown Fort Worth entering era of million-dollar condos

• Caldwell Elementary installs new playground awnings

• Kennedale ISD holding special meeting on September 20

Sunday, Sept. 16

• FC Dallas 2, New England Revolution 4

• Texas Rangers 11, Oakland A’s 9

• Dallas Cowboys 37, Miami Dolphins 20

• Photo gallery: Renewing physical urban environments

• Daiquiri Dump is closing

• Richie Sheridan calls for a Dallas homeless budget amendment

• Lake Cities Fire Chief Jason Collier says small fire department has advantages

• Concert Review: Machine Head and Arch Enemy at House of Blues

• Plano continues early season dominance

• Local Pet Butler embroiled in cyber-squatting brouhaha

• Numerous suburbs south of Dallas voting on alcohol sales this fall

• “Retail” health insurance comes to the DFW market

• Mid-Cities Democrats salute former Speaker Jim Wright

• UPDATED: Gloria Gigi White to fill Lancaster City Council vacancy

• Grapevine gets first victory of the season

• DeSoto to vote on legalizing sale of beer and wine on November 6

• UPDATED: Duncanville upholds alcohol membership card programs

• Red Oak to vote for new mayor in special election October 16

• Local yoga studio franchiser Sunstone Yoga on the grow

• Southlake falls to Miami Northwestern at Ford Stadium

• Irving ditches developer on planned entertainment complex, seeks new partner

• Photo Gallery: D.E.E.P. Fall Gallery Walk

• U.S. sues Dallas County and sheriff over conditions at Dallas County Jail

• Parkland Hospital in Dallas adds self-serve kiosks to emergency room

• Dallas Cowboys’ charter flight to Miami makes quick stop in New Orleans for repair

Saturday, Sept. 15

• SMU Women’s soccer suffers first loss

• UPDATED: Arrest made in triple murder of Chare Agnew and her children

• Arkansas State 45, Southern Methodist University 28

• Concert review: Wilco

• THINK interviews Frank Gohlke

• THINK interviews Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert

• Top designers offer Hispanic Heritage shirts at Nordstrom

• Little Mexico lives on — and it shows on Diez y Seis

• Dallas’ Heritage Auction Galleries to broker sale of Easy Rider stuff

• Dallas Observer launches music blog

• Mesquite police looking for help in burglary near Town East

• Oakland A’s 7, Texas Rangers 3

• Richardson Police Chief Larry Zacharias stays on top of ethical tone of organization

• UT Southwestern doctor files suit against cohorts

• Movie review: Eastern Promises

• Documentary Review: The Devil Came on Horseback

• Garland man accused of exposing himself to 13-year-old girl

• UPDATED: One killed, three injured by gunshots at party in east Arlington

• Haltom City institutes mandatory recycling

• Icky “Baghdad boil” skin sore showing up locally, including North Richland Hills

• Chicas Locas strip club in Arlington loses alcohol license

• Exhibit Review: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke

• Man gets pulled over in Dallas, leads chase to Allen, shoots himself

• Southwest Airlines defuses miniskirt controversy with lower fares

• Dallas Cowboys most valuable NFL franchise, says Forbes magazine

• Loop 12 closed this weekend in Mesquite

• Casa Mañana announces 2007-2008 Broadway At The Bass season

• Oakland A’s 11, Texas Rangers 9

• Dallas-based Corner Bakery firing up coffee in its planned comeback

Friday, Sept. 14

• Restaurant review: Ginger Thai Cuisine

• The Lauras’ guide to GrapeFest 2007

• Carrollton’s 9th annual Elm Fork Nature Fest Oct. 13

• Carrollton’s perennial brass ensemble to perform at library Sept. 30

• Greater Dallas Chamber’s Young Professionals elect chair

• 24th Annual KidFilm Festival announces dates and calls for submissions

• Frontiers of Flight Museum: photo gallery and exhibit preview

• Save 10% on Dallas Opera single tickets for this weekend only

• Texas Collegiate Baseball League sues seven of its own teams

• AARP intervenes in TXU buyout

• Fire destroys Argyle mansion

• SMU men’s and women’s tennis players ranked in preseason poll

• SMU women’s basketball releases 2007-2008 schedule

• Bush address barely watched in DFW

• DCCCD inks agreement with Ashford University

• Fort Worth city manager names chief communications officer

• Wheels that heal

• Chef Kevin Ascolese returns from murky underground to retool menu at Urbano Paninoteca

• Parade to highlight Dallas Pride

• Kleburg Elementary in South Dallas catches fire

• Three TCU women’s tennis players ranked in preseason poll

• Lancaster to host Fall Trash-Off Event

• TCU men’s tennis players ranked in preseason poll

• DFW-area doctor arrested — again

• UT Arlington’s new activities center - The “MAC” - gets ready to open

• TCU men’s golfers to tee off at Carpet Capital Collegiate

• CD Review: Little Brian’s Thrash Funk

• Poor reading skills holding Cedar Hill students back

• Fort Worth residents battle against booze joints

• TCU fades late, loses in overtime to Air Force 20-17

• Former TCU women’s basketball great Irvin joins coaching staff

• TCU baseball to begin fall workouts

• Head lice coming your way, says Collin County’s Health Care Services

• Rape case against Fort Worth pastor thrown out

• Lutenist Hopkinson Smith to Perform at UT Dallas Oct. 5

• Denton student breaks ribs, bruises organs in bus incident

• TeCo Theater receives financial excellence award

• 16-year-old Irving girl believed to be city’s first ‘cheese’-related death

• Last weekend to see these 12 plays and musicals

• 5 new theater productions opening this weekend

• DeSoto contemplates red-light cameras

• Grand Prairie high school reacts to, mourns Mansfield football players’s death

• Oakland A’s 6, Texas Rangers 5

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - September 13, week 23

Thursday, Sept. 13

• Movie review: The Brave One

• Audio interview: Local poet Opalina Salas

• $1,000 reward for lost rust brown Vizsla near Royal & Central

• UPDATED: Love Nails at Lakeland & Ferguson and a Deputy on the scene robbed at gunpoint

• Rehab of Collin County Regional Airport approved; city to get $4.91 mil in federal funds

• Dallas Latin Youth Orchestra performing Friday with Salsa legend Larry Harlow

• Don’t forget Tejano Heritage Month

• Cowboys receiver Terry Glenn undergoes second knee surgery

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: John Flores

• Dallas Mavericks give Devin Harris 5 year, $42 million contract extension

• UPDATED: Fort Worth-based egrips Technology to partner with the Ad Council

• Ebony Black Family Reunion to bring free music to Kiest Park on September 22

• Exhibit Review: Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Forgotten War

• Irving-based Fluor selected for refinery project in Tatarstan, Russia

• Dallas-based ACS announces $6.4 million contract extensions with Hawaii Medicaid

• Irving-based Kimberly-Clark to build its first manufacturing facility in Russia

• Dallas-based Dataside announces newest data center is “full”

• Fort Worth woman allegedly stabs ex-girlfriend

• Allergists at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas say this fall’s allergy season could be worst in decades

• Dallas South Sports games of the week: Tyler vs. DeSoto and Plano vs. Carter

• Pegasus’ Professional NFL Expert Picks - Week 2

• Accidental shooting injures three at Dallas temple

• McKinney Performing Arts Center presents Intergalactic Nemesis for one day only

• Arlington Kroger offering reward for information about robbery

• South Dallas to install surveillance cameras on streets

• Audio interview: The griot tradition with Alassane Sarr

• Dallas police to reach out to homeless with Operation Rescue

• Cockrell Hill facing possible bankruptcy

• Collin College Book In Common program focuses on Cambodia’s killing fields

• Theatre Arlington begins new season with Little Shop of Horrors this weekend

• Did Berkeley Neighborhood association throw Mistletoe Heights under the bus in drilling lease agreement?

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Amazingly Accurate Western Conference Predictions

• Texas Legislature record on environment leaves much to be desired

• Blobs invade Grapevine Lake

• UNT honors decision sciences professor with scholar award

• Bliss Frozen Yogurt opens two branches in Dallas area

• 18-wheeler drives off Balch Springs bridge, driver killed

• Dallas woman shoots husband after argument over family pickup truck

• Large television falls on, kills Plano child

• Meet the “characters” at the Dallas Cowboys press briefings

• David Dike sets 12th annual auction featuring Texas artists

Wednesday, Sept. 12

• Top Chef: Episode eleven

• Carrollton-based Woot sells out to Yahoo

• Purple Cow to host Children’s Cancer Fund Day on Sept. 18th

• Dallas-based Locke Liddell and Lord finalize merger with Bissell & Brook

• Fish & Richardson opening office in Munich, Germany

• Rose-Walker names Christopher McDowell partner

• Detroit Tigers 5, Texas Rangers 1

• Banks Fine Arts presents: Plein Air Painters

• UTA issues alert involving unauthorized fundraising using the university’s name

• UTA art professor chosen for fellowship at Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Half of Texas’ top teacher finalists are from the DFW area

• Found Labrador and Chihuahua in Forest Hills

• Going to Bolivia? Get a visa.

• Hispanic Heritage celebration proves Latino population is everywhere

• Bill Bradley to speak at UTA

• 18 Highland Park High School named National Merit Semifinalists

• George Lopez featured in Brown is the New Green on KERA Wednesday

• Dallas’ Frontiers of Flight Museum kicks off “Space50” with film festival and exhibit

• Join ExtremeDFW in supporting local bands

• Theatre Wesleyan announces 2007-2008 season

• 5th annual Jazz By The Boulevard set for Sept. 21-23

• New Interview: Little Brian

• Fort Worth suburbs getting more coffee places

• Fort Worth Council to Trinity Trees: Get lost

• Four Allen High students named National Merit semifinalists

• SMU’s Guildhall announces new game development degree program

• Queer Anarchy extended for 3 more performances

• Tickets to Uptown Players’ Twilight of the Golds now on sale

• Internationally renowned musician to present annual recital at UT Arlington

• Polyphonic Spree performed at Oscar de la Renta fashion show on Monday

• Wal-Mart recalls burning flip-flops after more complaints

• McKinney City Council appoints board and commission members

• Plano-based JC Penney to launch “Americana” line

• Texas Woman’s soccer defeats Dallas Baptist 2-1

• Texas Woman’s University adds two graduate assistants

• Mansfield breaks ground on Tarrant County’s first Hawaiian Falls

• UT Arlington golfers finish third at Saint Mary’s Invitational

• Exhibition local/e to Open Oct. 5 at UTD

• UT Dallas men golfers make strong showing in opener

• TCU golfers finish ninth at Inverness Intercollegiate

• TCU women’s soccer defeats UTSA with late goal

• Cedar Hill hosting “Coffee with the Chiefs” breakfast meeting

• Missing child alert: Samantha Bautista last seen in Dallas

• SMU volleyball runs over Roadrunners, 3-0

• Texas Wesleyan golfers win Charles Coody Intercollegiate

• Texas Wesleyan volleyball wins first conference match

• Texas Wesleyan’s Parks named Defensive Player of the Week

• Addison daycare is getting sued by parents for implementing a ‘thumbtack’ punishment

• UNT men take second at Cobb/Ferrill Classic

• UPDATED: Dallas City Council ends “verified response” in Wednesday meeting

• UPDATED: Barricaded man kills mother, himself after police standoff

• Texas Instruments’ earnings up slightly for 3rd quarter

• Kidnapped Oak Cliff man returns safe and sound

• Stonebriar Mall gains a Dillards

• Richland Hills bans smoking in parks

• DART rail construction will make things miserable for fair goers

• Repertory Company Theatre kicks off new season with Songs for a New World this weekend

• Rover Dramawerks reveals 2007-2008 season

Tuesday, Sept. 11

• Exhibit Review: Urban Arts Festival in Dallas

• Greater Dallas Chamber names Leadership Dallas Class of 2008

• Hildy the giraffe, 33, dies at Dallas Zoo

• Only 609 out of about 8,500 eligible Southwest employees take buyout

• Detroit Tigers 4, Texas Rangers 1

• Former teacher Jose Alberto Felix convicted in murder of Dallas restaurateur Oscar Sanchez

• Lewisville Director of Parks and Leisure Services Bob Monaghan loves outdoor activities

• Exhibit Review: Enrique Chavarria - Surrealism and the Fantastic

• Tom Leppert names Dallas City Council committee members

• UT Southwestern study: Men more likely to change unhealthy habits than women

• Texas Rangers 13, Detroit Tigers 6

• Missing child alert in Irving

• TeCo Theatrical Productions receives major funding

• FM 407 (Justin Road) bridge across Interstate 35E in Lewisville will be closed for remainder of Tuesday and possibly part of Wednesday

• Sushi place with generic name opens at West Village in Dallas

• Casual Chic Fridays at Bass Performance Hall kick off Sept. 14

• Echo Theatre previews and opens The Ladies of the Camellias this week

• UNT women fall short at North Texas Women’s Golf Classic

• FC Dallas and Oscar Pareja Communty Clinic continues on September 12

• Kaiser Chiefs cancel Dallas House of Blues show

• UNT professor poo-poos Petraeus plan

• Michael Jordan gives iPods to Dallas middle school

• Crystal Lynn gets new websites

• Artes de la Rosa holding 16 de Septiembre celebration on September 15

• Rasansky Law Firm announces lawsuit against North Texas day care

• Dallas Children’s Theater receives $1 million donation

• Dallas ISD superintendent to hold briefing on Dallas Achieves program

• Dallas ranked an embarrassing 26th out of 32 in “Best Tailgating Cities”

• Culinary Concierge magazine launches in Dallas-Fort Worth

• Dallas-based SCA Latam to launch Latin-inspired TV game shows in U.S. and Canada

• Artspace 111 presents: Face It: The Oversized Portraits of Leslie Lanzotti, running Sept. 8 - Sept. 30

• Young Bleed’s Once Upon a Time in Amedica album in stores today

• UD’s Brown named men’s soccer Player of the Week

• University of Dallas runner named Runner of the Week

• Troubled restaurant Luqa really is closed, will become Ivy, an entertainment venue

• UNT women’s soccer off to best start in school history

• UNT’s Fitzgerald, Meager receive Player of the Week accolades

• UNT trailing but in hunt at North Texas Women’s Golf Classic

• North Texas men in first at Cobb/Ferrill Mean Green Classic

• Texas Wesleyan golfers in first at Charles Coody Intercollegiate

• Richland Hills mayor urges property owners to “seriously consider” gas lease offers

• The Colony Police arrest suspect on drug-related murder charges

• TCU golfers in 8th after first round of Inverness Invitational

• UT Arlington cross country ranked 8th, 10th in region

• UT Arlington to honor 1990-93 track athletes

• UT Arlington golfers lagging behind at Saint Mary’s Invitational

• Ousted weather chief returns to duty in Forth Worth

• John Edwards wins Texas Democratic e-primary

• SMU women golfers place fourth at Badger Invitational

• SMU’s Morstead named Conference USA special teams player of the week

• ADHD seminars to take place at Brookhaven College

• RoughRiders’ season ends in San Antonio

• Fort Worth ambulance service provider needs help, says city

• SMU’s Guarda named Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week

• Fort Worth man killed in traffic accident

• Senate argument over Mexican trucks on U.S. roadways heats up

• Cerulean Gallery offers drawing classes

• Heavy local downpours wreak havoc with media’s rain measurement reporting standards

• Purse snatcher hits The Village in Dallas

• Chef Chris Svalesen introduces new menu at Tucker

• New Interview: Steven Jones, Founding Producer of Lyric Stage

Monday, Sept. 10

• Movie review: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

• Dallas Law Firm Baron & Budd cuts 80 people

• One O’Clock Lab Band to perform at UTD September 28

• American Airlines to benefit from DFW’s budget surplus

• Texas Instruments’ KFAB Dallas Manufacturing Facility to lay off 191 workers

• Dallas City budget process has flaws

• Carrollton’s R. L. Turner High School and DeWitt Perry Middle School robitics teams excel

• Frisco Wells Fargo mistakes customer for a bank robber

• UT Dallas to host performance by Philadelphia Virtuosi

• University of Dallas volleyball falls in final game of invitational

• Student from McKinney’s Johnson Middle School selected to All-State Journalism Staff

• Dallas Baptist women’s cross country wins invitational

• UPDATED: Dallas area groups to participate in Jena 6 rally

• Bud Kennedy and Caravan of Dreams banter on the Trinity Trees

• Dallas Baptist volleyball takes 3 of 4 matches

• Trial date set for banker accused of insider trading in TXU buyout

• TWU women’s soccer battles to tie with Missouri Southern State

• ICT Group to lay off 239 employees in Carrollton

• Mansfield ISD awards Vietnam veteran with a high school diploma

• Eastfield College to hold Scholarship Golf Classic

• McKool Smith opening DC office

• The largest worldwide yoga event to be held after Rangers game on Sept 23rd

• 300 volunteers from 40 North Texas companies to renovate Brady Center on Freedom Day

• UNT golf season kicks off today

• Finalists revealed for Seventh Annual Tech Titans Awards

• UT Southwestern researchers debut “Rain Man” mice

• Irving-based Fluor to design, build planned $3 billion Desert Rock power plant

• Chef Curren Dodds wins jalapeno-eating contest at annual Zest Fest in Fort Worth

• Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD touts new seventh grade Hindi, Mandarin language, history classes

• TCU volleyball sweeps matches at Molten/La Quinta Invitational

• TCU men’s golf to open fall season

• Irving ISD educators get to experience zero gravity flight

• Child missing after mom found strangled in Irving Motel 6

• Inconsistency leads to UTA volleyball’s third straight loss

• SMU drops 2 of 3 matches at SMU Radisson Invitational

• SMU women’s soccer beats Kansas, 2-0

• Fort Worth ISD sixth grader to break ground for police and fire memorial

• #8 SMU men’s soccer team beats Georgetown, 1-0

• Grapevine man arrested after stabbing estranged wife

• Former SMU All-American helps U.S. win Walker Cup

• Expert on aging to speak at TCU

• UTA Mavericks dominate Movin’ Mavs Cross Country Challenge

• Two Garland homes struck by lightning, caught fire

• Yum Yum Thai in Fort Worth suffers fire damages

• Masked gunman robs Arlington Kroger grocery store

• Free ESL classes offered at Eastfield College

• Man kidnapped in front of son near Dallas home

• DeSoto city council set to approve 70.973 cent tax rate

• Two gunmen invade Fort Worth home, kill one

• New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving to present “A Musical Journey” on October 9

Sunday, Sept. 9

• Landlord of primarily Hispanic apartment building sues city of Irving

• Texas Rangers 12, Oakland A’s 9

• Dallas Cowboys 45, New York Giants 35

• Movie review and director commentary: David & Layla

• TCC Southeast to host Historically Black College and Universities College Fair Sept. 15

• Two former Tycoons sign to play in Europe

• Today, hockey opportunities more abundant for American players

• Pick what Wilco will play in Dallas on Friday

• Urban Explorers provide Rare (comedy) Footage

• Dallas adding even more red light cameras

• Dallas Police seeking help in Oak Cliff missing persons case

• Missing child alert: Erika Rodriguez

• A grande triple latte with free WiFi, please

• Fort Worth Cats win third straight league title

• Benefit for Dallas soul-food restaurant Vern’s Place on September 16

• 2nd Annual Hispanic-Heritage Celebration on September 13 will focus on diabetes

• Owner of tire store south of downtown Dallas shoots and kills intruder

• Marcus completes fourth quarter comeback to defeat Grapevine

• New Texas law allows us to carry all kinds of weapons in our cars without a license

• Three Dallas stations broadcasting local news in HDTV

• Remains of missing climbers, one from Dallas, not found despite exhaustive search

• Local wags speculate on where in Dallas George Bush will live

• Southern Methodist University 45, University of North Texas 31

• Texas 34, TCU 13

• Texas Rangers 7, Oakland A’s 3

Saturday, Sept. 8

• Hunt Oil signs deal with Kurdistan government to explore oil in Iraq

• Richardson Fire Chief Alan Palomba considers firefighting as vocation and hobby

• Carrollton’s new DART Railways groundbreaking ceremony held Sept. 8

• Dallas area to suffer earlier-than-normal ragweed season

• Weekly movie notes: Bella, Trade and Live-in Maid

• Dallas gas prices up two cents

• Dallas to host annual Mexican Independence Celebration at Pike Park September 15-16

• Saxon Oil acquires interests in Permian Basin and Italy

• Remembering Mrs. Gudrun J. “Gerdie” Headen

• Fort Worth-based American Airlines tests credit-card-only purchases on flights

• UPDATED: Dallas.org finds discrepancies in DISD trustee Ron Price’s disclosures

• Student arrested for dorm room thefts at Dallas Baptist University

• PETA protestors, dripping A-C mar perfection of Crystal Charity Ball society luncheon

• Dallas ISD re-organizes department to avoid nepotism

• HS Football: DeSoto 47, Garland 14

• Memorial for Carter Albrecht draws 700 to church in Plano

Friday, Sept. 7

• Fort Worth-based Ben E. Keith Beverage Distributors launches wine label

• UPDATEDx3: FBI seeking information on armored car robbery in Lakewood on Wednesday

• I-35E closed in Red Oak until Saturday morning for demolition project

• Carrollton one of first mid-sized Texas cities with Renewable Energy Credits

• Tickets to Steven Wright, Evanescence, Cross Canadian Ragweed & more on sale soon

• Risk Theater Initiative presenting pay-what-you-can staged reading of Slaughterhouse 5

• Downtown Petropolitan pampers your pets while you work

• 5 shows ending their run this weekend

• New crop of plays and musicals for DFW this weekend

• SPCA announces adoption awareness event

• Police investigating possible homicide in The Colony

• Lancaster officer shoots two pitbulls; one dead, one euthanized

• SMU volleyball to host SMU Radisson Invitational

• Lancaster ranks first in instructional spending — But do the numbers add up?

• Sounds Become Us come to an end

• Duncanville police catch kidnapper

• McKinney in, Sherman out on Central Expressway signs

• UT Southwestern’s obesity research receives $22 million grant

• UPDATED and CORRECTED: Fifteen tollway scofflaws owe $688,000

• Countrywide continuing to cut jobs

• EDS snags $33.2 million contract with the Commonweath of Kentucky

• Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Sept. 5)

• TXU shareholders approve merger

• Irving-based Fluor to build Polysilicon Plant in China

• Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass presents: One of a Kind

• Lesbian fights ex-partner’s uncle for child custody

• Dallas mother charged with murder of 15-month-old child

• Little Elm man charged with sexual assault, prostitution by force

• Texas Stonewall president Bailey refuses to resign

• Cedar Hill city website gets an overhaul

• Garland high school bans student from wearing skull t-shirt

• Interview with Fort Worth artist Randy Bacon

• Rafael Palmeiro to turn 162 acres in Grapevine into asian garden, etc.

• Dallas South game preview: Garland vs. DeSoto

• Car wreck at I-635 and Central results in fire, death

• Motorcycle crash in Dallas leaves one dead

• Why Southlake Carroll will not win the 2007 state title

• Off-duty Dallas cop allegedly wields gun at, threatens to arrest motorist in road rage incident

• Trinity Trees public forum shows both sides of Barnett Shale drilling

• UPDATED x2: Mansfield football player collapses, dies during game

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - September 6, week 22

Thursday, Sept. 6

• Game preview: Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants

• Movie review: 3:10 to Yuma

• SMU’s 1982 National Championship Team to be honored at UNT game

• Video Interview: Pascal Servell of Futureperfect.com

• The Hill’s “Second Chance for Love” Tour will be in Dallas on Friday and in McKinney on Saturday

• Christopher Austin, an “ex-gay” counselor in Irving, convicted of sexual assault

• USG sponsoring contest to award $5,000 to the top drywaller in Dallas area

• Interview: Dr. Chili Robinson, Plastic Surgeon

• Pegasus’ Professional NFL Expert Picks

• Tin Star in Uptown closed, to be replaced by second branch of Mooyah Burgers

• Birdville ISD earns state’s highest fiscal accountability rating

• UNT hires Gilda Garcia as vice president of Institutional Equity and Diversity

• Cas Haley and Woodbelly to perform at Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday, may sign with Sony

• Flower Mound represents with rap/hip-hop video: “Flow Mo”

• FC Dallas’ Adrian Serioux called in for Canadian National Team

• Fort Worth police searching for bank robber

• T.O. compares dogfighting to hunting

• 3 men suing Plano over freedom of speech

• “Leprechaun Bandit” pleads guilty to robberies

• Greater Lewisville Community Theatre opens season this weekend with I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

• Circle Theatre presents staged reading of King O’ the Moon on September 9 & 10

• SMU and UNT faithful face off in video game competition

• Save the Trinity Trees

• Dallas Desperados hold auditions for 2008 dance team September 8

• Theater Review: Pride and Prejudice

• UNT hosts Music for Peace concert benefitting the Shropshire Foundation

• New York Times bestselling author and Arlington resident to speak in Arlington Oct. 3

• 360 D Radio: PPT and Blackwerks Interview

• UTA’s ‘Conversations’ to begin September 12

• Exit polls suggest Texas GOP Straw Poll had discrepancies

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Goofus and Gallant in the Eastern Conference

• This ragweed season may be the worst in 50 years

• Heritage Auction Galleries to sell lock of Che Guevara’s hair

• Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders join USO tour to Persian Gulf

• Lone Star Drive In at Lee Park means free film screenings every Thursday in September

• Houston-based Boudreaux’s Cajun Kitchen expanding to Dallas

• Dallas uses newer tactic for punishing illegal massage parlors

• Power outage for 3,000 early this morning in Cedars neighborhood of Dallas

• McKinney holds job fair on Sept. 15 to recruit police and fire personnel

• Overnight car chase ends in fiery crash at 635 and Coit

• Man found in car at Dallas apartment complex with multiple gunshot wounds, neck slashed

• Two teens rob five at gunpoint in Fort Worth park

• Broka’s Bliss looking for new guitarist

Wednesday, Sept. 5

• Top Chef: Episode ten

• Texas Rangers 3, Kansas City Royals 2

• Duncanville High School officer accused of unnecessarily macing student

• Free film screening: A Fair To Remember

• FC Dallas advances to Open Cup Final

• Dykema law firm, with 10 offices across the country, opens Dallas office

• Movie Tavern opens Fort Worth Hulen Mall location on Friday

• Road Agent presents: Bradly Brown, Beastly Words

• Fort Worth police searching for man in connection with shooting/beating

• UTA Mavs sweep Marquette to claim tournament title

• Tex-Mex restaurant Sol Irlandes moves into old Metropolitan space in downtown Dallas

• Grand Prairie police department now nationally accredited

• Two new bachelor’s-master’s engineering fast-track plans begin this fall at UTA

• Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Sept. 4)

• 360 D Radio: Big Aziz Interview and Southwest Block Exchange

• Free music from 41 Gorgeous Blocks’ new full-length

• Queer Anarchy at the MAC this weekend as part of Texas Pride Month

• Tickets now on sale for Theatre Coppell’s Deathtrap

• Southwest Airlines ranks among the best in industry in on-time performance, cancellations

• Kitchen Dog Theater postpones season opener Man from Nebraska

• Sustainable Dallas to hold carbon credit market seminar

• American Airlines ranks among the worst in industry in on-time performance, cancellations

• Groups oppose TXU buyout, want CEO’s $270 million buyout windfall to go to low income families

• Neverset to tour with Sevendust

• Frisco-based Skywire Software acquires Whitehill Technologies

• Irving-based DG FastChannel completes GTN purchase for $11.5 million

• Take action against poverty instead of just talking

• Countrywide saw real estate market collapse coming, says Dallas-based MortgageDaily.com

• Thieves in Hurst will rip light fixtures from your house

• Dallas attorney allegedly goes on shooting spree

• Dallas to break ground on new library

• University of Dallas sends 99 students to Rome

• Forget the Green Line: DART needs to invest in more parking

• Arlington City Council likely to widen gap between gas wells and businesses

• Brookhaven College career fair to feature over 70 companies

• TxDOT scraps plans to catch highway speeders using cameras

• Dallas ISD is still looking for math teachers

• UPDATE: Dallas PD looks for finds stolen mis-logged squad car

• McKinney passes smoking ban

• Early morning storms elicit tornado and flood warnings

• Explosion at a Dallas electrical station causes power outages around downtown Dallas

• Tom Leppert to participate in dinner party hosted by DFW International

• Theater Review: Valley of the Dolls

• Exhibit Review: Cottonwood Art Festival Preview Exhibit

Tuesday, Sept. 4

• Texas Rangers 9, Kansas City Royals 8

• Mocha Moose Espresso brings drive-through coffee to Kennedale

• Local artist spotlight: Monique Jannette

• Theater Review: The Secret War

• TCU climbs to No. 19 in the polls

• Fort Worth Cats take first game in American Association Championship Series

• Planetarium at UTA celebrates Astronomy Day and the 50th anniversary of Sputnik 1

• Internationally known musician to present UTA’s annual recital

• Backsliders post new music from upcoming album

• Sweet Tomatoes wins “best buffet” just as it’s set to arrive in Dallas

• CWC Entertainment to bring in the Harlem Starz basketball team

• Plano Civic Chorus opens anniversary season with Brahm’s Requiem

• Cliburn gold medalist Alexander Kobrin to perform with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

• McKinney to do a bit of West-Nile spraying on Wednesday

• UT Southwestern researchers author study on fat-controlling gene

• National premiere of Truth in Translation this week at SMU

• TCU set to dedicate new campus education facility

• UNT sponsors panel discussion on the history of North Texas race relations

• Dallas-based ACS awarded $19 million parking services contract with Boston

• Hip Pocket Theatre’s 3rd annual Cowtown Puppetry Festival starts this week

• Operating lease ends at two Tenet hospitals in Dallas

• Stream Energy Chairman Rob Snyder cleared of abuse charges

• MDA Telethon yields to golf, NBC multiplies ratings by 6

• Tarrant County jail to get play on new show by producers of COPS

• Fort Worth resident critically injured in plane crash

• Garland middle school teacher named Region 10 Teacher of the Year

• Mexican bistro Frida’s opens in Oak Lawn

• Fort Worth police arrest TCU-area kidnap suspects

• Carter defeats Kimball 13-12 on game’s final play

• Driver who backed into three girls near Fort Worth taco stand remains at large

• Lewisville Day Care facility damaged by fire

• Dallas freeway shooting sends woman driver to hospital

• Texas Department of Insurance to implement uninsured driver program for police use

• Congressional candidate Kathy Seei meets with local supporters

• UPDATED: Rise & Dine, new breakfast chain, comes to Dallas area

• Kettle Art kicks off their fall season Sept. 15 with all women show

• Fatal Dallas shooting a possible instance of road rage

• Car GPS units attract Fort Worth thieves

• Fort Worth accident leaves one motorcyclist dead, one seriously injured

• Security guard in Dallas shoots, kills man following chase

• UPDATE: New Interview: Kathleen McElfresh, lead actress in Pride & Prejudice

Monday, Sept. 3

• Neighborhood pastors have become robbery targets

• Texas Tech 49, Southern Methodist University 9

• Kansas City Royals 8, Texas Rangers 1

• Songs, spin and shouting at Trinity Trees picnic

• Films from cyberspace part four, including a mini-review of The Hook

• Concert Review: Incubus and The Bravery

• CD Review: Salim Nourallah’s Snowing in My Heart

• Sheriffs more likely than police departments to welcome new arrest discretion

• Dog training program reduces inmate discipline incidents 63% at private prison

• TCU may just beat UT in Austin next week

• Governor Rick Perry commutes sentence of Kenneth Foster to life in prison

• When bad news turns good — and validates a friendship

• CBS 11’s Babe Laufenberg interviews Bill Parcells

• Fried cookie dough wins as 2007 Texas State Fair’s best-tasting new food creation

• Litton Systems of Garland is awarded $38M defense department contract

• Garland man arrested in Georgia for possession and intent to distribute drugs

• Dallas and Tarrant counties slacking on campaign disclosure law

• UPDATED x4: Sorta’s Carter Albrecht killed in shooting incident

• Fight between neighbors near Dallas’ Love Field ends with one man killed, two in hospital

• Hearing on tighter ozone standards will take place in Houston on Wednesday

Sunday, Sept. 2

• Texas Rangers 8, LA Angels 7

• Dallas ISD’s badly supervised payroll program led to inappropiate overpayments

• At least 16 cats found hoarded in northeast Dallas home

• Thief steals 15 bottles of dandruff shampoo from Tom Thumb in Flower Mound

• Semi-obscure Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter wins Texas Republican straw poll in Fort Worth

• UPDATE: J.J. Abrams monster movie buzz and official site scare tactics

• Independent brewery being plotted in McKinney

Saturday, Sept. 1

• North Texas Football Falls To No. 8 Oklahoma In Season Opener

• Felix murder trial on hold pending further DNA tests

• Perez Hilton promises upcoming House of Blues gig “will suck”

• No. 22-ranked TCU takes down Baylor in season opener

• LGBT leaders encouraged by meeting with Dallas mayor

• Texas Stonewall board asks Bailey to resign

• Dallas Grand Hotel to re-open

• DISD procurement employee un-fired

• CBS 11’s new-ish news director is out

• Texas Rangers 7, LA Angels 6

• Mexican trucks allowed in U.S. interior Sept. 6; drivers required to speak English

• Legal Aid groups in Dallas-Fort Worth area to receive grants from Texas Access to Justice Foundation

• Flower Mound Parker Square sponsors Locks of Love charity event Sept. 9

• TCU women’s golf ranked in Top 25

• Plano trumps Mesquite for second straight year

• UPDATED: Cowboys quarterback coach admits receiving illegal performance-enhanging drugs

• Mustang men’s soccer starts season with a draw

• Movie review: Death Sentence

• Notorious molester in Dallas sent back to jail

• McKinney Boyd High School student dies of “cheese” overdose

• Police on a crime-busting rampage in Deep Ellum and Mockingbird area

• UPDATED: Six-year-old boy from Dallas killed by family pet pit bull

• Hockaday alumna Deborah Magocsi’s film to be showcased at the Thin Line Film Festival in Denton

• LA Angels 7, Texas Rangers 6 (10 Innings)

• Art for Peace and Justice exhibition opens Sept. 8 and again Sept. 15 at Artizen in Dallas