Update on Bob’s Bags Ministry in Duncanville
Visiting with Bob Cawthon, who started Bob’s Bags–a ministry to help the homeless–was inspirational last fall. We reported on the mission, now sponsored by First Christian Church of Duncanville, in an article published in Focus Daily News last October. Today I checked in with them to see how the icy weather was...
TCC’s last original faculty member retires after nearly six decades of teaching
Tarrant County College is marking the end of an era as its last remaining original faculty member retires after nearly 60 years of teaching. History professor Larry Story delivered his final lecture during a retirement luncheon in January at TCC South, the only campus he has taught at during his entire career. He is...
Dallas Veterans Job Fair Will Be in Arlington
The bi-monthly DAV and RecruitMilitary Dallas Veterans Job Fair returns to DFW this week. Every 60 or so days, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and RecruitMilitary join forces in Arlington to help local service members find jobs. “From deployment to employment” is precisely the phrase they use for their hiring...
Fort Worth ‘One Leg’ Retrial Shakes Quiet Block Where Two Kids Died
Anthony “One Leg” Bell-Johnson is back in a Tarrant County courtroom this week, facing a capital-murder retrial in a 2022 drive-by shooting that killed a 5-year-old and a 17-year-old. Prosecutors say gunmen opened fire on an open garage where children were playing on August 28, 2022, and that forensic evidence left...
Pastor Landon Schott visits Robert Morris in jail, declares God has forgiven him
Mercy Culture Pastor Landon Schott visited disgraced pastor Robert Morris in jail on Tuesday and emerged talking about new beginnings and restoration. Schott posted on Facebook Tuesday night that God told Schott that he’s forgiven Morris. Last October, Morris, the 64-year-old founder of Dallas’s Gateway Church,...
Doubling council salaries, expanding city manager’s authority could be on Fort Worth’s May ballot
Salary increases for Fort Worth council members and clarifying the city manager’s authority could soon be on the ballot. Fort Worth residents may see eight proposed amendments to the city charter during the May 2 elections after council members appeared receptive to city staff’s recommendations during a Tuesday work...
North Texas mom goes into labor in Fort Worth bookstore, owners and internet go...
FORT WORTH, Texas — The shelves inside Monkey and Dog Books are lined with carefully curated stories, but earlier this month, the independent Fort Worth bookstore gained one of its own. A North Texas mother went into labor while browsing books inside the shop, setting off a chain of...
A mother seeks answers after her son dies alone on a Fort Worth street
Amy Spurlock didn’t cry, at least not that afternoon. It was the week before Christmas, and she stood on Northwest 20th Street in Fort Worth’s north side looking at a wooden cross that marked where her 20-year-old son, Crawford Blake Bullock, had died almost exactly a year ago. In the December chill, Spurlock watched...
Troopers Find Abducted Child Within Minutes Of AMBER Alert, Arrest Homicide Suspect
The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Tuesday released video of the moment troopers rescued a kidnapped 4-year-old and arrested a man wanted for a homicide in Texas. At around 2:13 p.m. on Jan. 31, an AMBER Alert was issued in reference to a child abduction related to a homicide that took place in Mansfield, Texas, […]
Fort Worth police get upgraded bulletproof patrol car windows
Some Fort Worth police patrol cars will receive new bullet-resistant glass. FOX 4's Dionne Anglin has more and gives a demonstration on the strength of the glass.
