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Heavy rains bring flooding to parts of North Texas
FORT WORTH — A Flash Flood Warning has expired for Collin County and parts of Denton and Grayson Counties after one to two inches of rain fell over Tarrant and Denton Counties earlier Monday. Meteorologists expected scattered showers and thunderstorms …
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Best School Districts for Your Buck in DallasFort Worth
The largest metropolitan area in Texas — Dallas–Fort Worth, population 6.5 million — has many attractive qualities: jobs, short commutes and clusters of family friendly suburbs. But what keeps families rooted here are the schools.
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TCU student charged with intoxication manslaughter in deadly Fort Worth crash
Two Texas Christian University students were arrested after a drunken driving crash killed a mother of two Saturday night in Fort Worth, police say. The driver, 22-year-old Jonathan Lucas Reed, faces a charge of intoxication manslaughter in the death …
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Latest Jobs Fort Worth News

Former Dell executive named to lead RadioShack
Making the announcement, Soo Kim, managing partner of Standard General, said the slimmed-down Fort Worth-based consumer electronics retailer is positioned for a bright future after shedding debt in bankruptcy and striking a deal with Sprint to sell …
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Travellers have long history in Tarrant County
Two years later, their culture and lifestyle made national news when Madelyn Gorman Toogood — an Irish Traveller with Fort Worth ties — was caught on video beating her 4-year-old daughter outside an Indiana store. Now, two Irish Travellers — a …
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Temp jobs growing fast: Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 8 for highest share of
… temporary employment will grow 13 percent, or 354,877 jobs, from 2014 through 2019. Twenty U.S. metropolitan areas have a higher share of temp jobs (to all jobs) than the 2 percent national average. The Dallas-Fort Worth area ranks No. 8 at 3 …
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