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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is getting a $2.3 million federal grant to fix one of its runways.The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that construction is expected to start in early January and will include repairing concrete slabs and joints on the 13,400-foot runway to make it less likely that debris can develop on the surface.
ROSENBERG
The search for a Texas prison guard accused of stabbing his wife and mother-in-law to death is now focused in Georgia after his car was found there.Rosenberg police Lt. Colin Davidson said Tuesday that the Honda belonging to Albert James Turner was found partially submerged in the Chattahoochie River in Cobb County and that authorities there are on the scene.
DALLAS
When Carla Fisher and her husband announced plans to travel the globe with their adolescent daughters for a year, some friends called them crazy.Seven years later, with wonderful memories and a book documenting their world trek, the Fishers now seem like global trailblazers.
DALLAS
More than a dozen people were evacuated from the Southern Methodist University engineering building after a student noticed a package of hydrochloric acid that appeared to be leaking.Authorities evacuated the building Tuesday morning as a safety precaution and said there was no immediate threat to the campus.
LUBBOCK
The lawyer for Mike Leach says the suspended Texas Tech coach did nothing wrong in how he treated a player with a "mild" concussion.Ted Liggett said Tuesday that keeping receiver Adam James inside during practice due to the injury was better for the player than letting him remain outside.
ARLINGTON
Attorneys for an exotic animal dealer have accused an employee of intentionally neglecting animals to further his work as an undercover investigator for an animal rights group.Howard Goldman could have done more to provide food, water and care for the animals that he said were being mistreated, said Lance Evans, an attorney for Jasen and Vanessa Shaw, the owners of U.S. Global Exotics.
AUSTIN
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison vowed Tuesday to "clean up" the Texas Department of Transportation, reduce traffic congestion and start building a high-speed rail network connecting Dallas, Houston and San Antonio if she is elected Texas governor.Hutchison laid out her transportation plan Tuesday at campaign swings in Tyler, Waco and Dallas, with more stops scheduled Wednesday.
HOUSTON
A Harris County criminal court-at-law judge has resigned following his conviction of official oppression for trying to woo a woman facing a drunken-driving charge in his court.Judge Donald Jackson's resignation, delivered Tuesday in a one-sentence letter to county commissioners, is effective Thursday.
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