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The Fort Worth City Council could decide Tuesday whether to allow a concrete batch plant to operate near homes and roughly 1,200 feet from a school. A subsidiary of Farmers Branch-based Centurion American Development Group wants to build the permanent batch plant. The location is 3800 Deen Road, next to BNSF’s North Yard, in the Diamond Hill neighborhood of north Fort Worth. The...

Tanner Horner’s former fifth-grade teacher and a retired speech pathologist testified about his challenges at school as defense attorneys continued presenting their case at Horner’s capital murder trial Friday in Tarrant County. Horner has already pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand after delivering a package to her family’s Wise County home on Nov. 30, 2022. His attorneys are...

The stormy, gloomy week plaguing Texas isn't over just yet.

The Burelson school district is partnering with Hill College and UNT Health Fort Worth to create a pathway program for students interested in the health care and biomedical science fields. The program, which will start this fall, is called the Accelerated Biomedical Careers Initiative, and will allow students at Burleson high schools to start earning college credits early so they can earn their degree...

The drive-in almost disappeared. Texas had nearly four hundred of them in the nineteen-fifties, more than any state in the country, and now there are fewer than twenty. The ones that survived did it on stubbornness, mostly — family-owned places that never stopped believing a warm night and a big screen and a car full of people was a good way to...

Forest Hill has parted ways with its city manager, and the breakup is pricey. The city is on the hook for roughly $380,000 after a split City Council vote, even as officials scramble to fill key leadership roles. A Forest Hill police captain has been tapped to serve as interim city manager, and a special called meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday...

Fort Worth, Texas – Recognition has come to Fort Worth after the city secured a strong position among leading fleet operations across the continent. The city was ranked 13th out of the 100 Best Fleets in North America by the NAFA Fleet Management Association, placing it firmly within a top-performing group known for efficiency and innovation.

A Kansas ranch that specializes in wagyu beef has opened a retail meat market in Southlake. Booth Creek Wagyu is a vertically integrated operation, meaning they raise the cattle on the 5,000-acre ranch near Manhattan, Kansas, process the meat and distribute it to their small number of stores. All of the facilities are within a 30-mile radius, which the company says makes...

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ATarrant County Community College dance instructor who was put on leave last week has been given her termination notice, as first reported by the Collegian , TCC’s student newspaper. On April 13, Kihyoung Choi, who’d taught dance at TCC’s Northeast Campus for nearly 15 years, was pulled out of class and told not to return to campus, according to students. Several students spoke out in...