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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:55 pm

Arlington News

Local news for Arlington, TX continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

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Fort Worth, Arlington Top 50 U.S. Cities For Business

Arlington and Fort Worth are among the Top 50 Best Cities for Doing Business, according to a national ranking released this week by Inc.

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Related Topix: Tarrant County, TX, Fort Worth, TX, Irving, TX, Dallas Metro, Fort Worth Metro

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Arlington driver dies after collision with pickup

A 62-year-old man died Friday from injuries suffered when his car collided with a pickup truck at an intersection in central Arlington.

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Grand Prairie, TX

Thu Jul 17, 2008

The Dallas Morning News

Arlington ISD names interim superintendent while honorariums reviewed

Arlington Independent School District's trustees named an interim superintendent Thursday evening, hours after Hector Montenegro offered to take a paid leave of absence while attorneys look into whether he ...

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Related Topix: University of Texas System, Arlington (University of Texas System)

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Seaplane limits on Lake Arlington are turned down

Boaters on Lake Arlington could find themselves sharing the waves with seaplanes.

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Wed Jul 16, 2008

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Arlington man pleads guilty in teen's fatal shooting

Two weeks after a jury couldn't agree whether he did it, a 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to killing a teenager during a confrontation over a minor car crash.

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Tue Jul 15, 2008

Lansing State Journal

E.L. man finishes 10th in poker world series, wins $590,000

LAS VEGAS - East Lansing's Dean Hamrick was eliminated from the World Series of Poker this morning when his ace-jack failed to beat the pocket queens of 23-year-old amateur Craig Marquis of Arlington, Texas.

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Arlington police arrest two in Wal-Mart kidnapping

Arlington police have arrested two 20-year-olds in connection with the July 8 kidnapping of a woman from a south Arlington Wal-Mart. The men are suspected of asking her for change, then forcing her into a car, ...

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Sun Jul 13, 2008

Denton Record-Chronicle

Doctors-insurers confrontation heats up

Doctors complain of shrinking payments from health insurers, pointing to insurance companies' fat profits and seven-figure CEO salaries.

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Related Topix: Tarrant County, TX

Star-telegram.com

Briefs: Brush fire burns 20 acres near homes on Arlington border

ARLINGTON - A brush fire threatened a park and nearby homes on the Arlington-Mansfield border Saturday afternoon before it was extinguished.

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Related Topix: Mansfield, TX, Fort Worth Metro, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Carrollton, TX, Dallas Metro

Sat Jul 12, 2008

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Arlington killer given new execution date

An Arlington killer whose date with the executioner was delayed last fall while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the lethal injection process will head to the Huntsville death house ...

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Related Topix: US Supreme Court, US News, Tarrant County, TX

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Star-telegram.com

Arlington steps up crackdown on gambling, seizes eight-liners

By SUSAN SCHROCK ARLINGTON - Police have seized more than 600 eight-liner machines since February, when undercover officers began investigating illegal gambling at Arlington game rooms.So far, search ...

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Thu Jul 10, 2008

The Dallas Morning News

Crosstown Traffic: I-20 in Arlington is open now

This just in from Arlington PD: I-20 is open eastbound and westbound. Earlier, some 18-wheelers got into a wrestling match and I-20 in southwest Arlington was shut down for most of the afternoon.

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Wed Jul 09, 2008

WFAA-TV Dallas

Woman kidnapped outside Arlington Wal-Mart store

The woman leaving the Wal-Mart store. A 51-year-old woman was kidnapped by two men outside an Arlington Wal-Mart store on Tuesday afternoon.

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Star-telegram.com

Suspected Arlington bank robber caught in Georgia

Suspected bank robber captured in Georgia A 19-year-old man suspected of robbing three Arlington banks and an EZ Money location at gunpoint has been captured in Muscogee County, Georgia, after authorities said ...

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Ci.arlington.tx.us

: Government :: News & Press Releases :: Press Releases

JULY 2008 July 7, 2008 Arlington Parks and Recreation Unveils Contest with Naming of Mascot "Where's Buddy?" Contest Starts July 7 Arlington Parks and Recreation will begin the "Where's Buddy?" contest July 7 ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Swimming

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Star-telegram.com

Lanes on I-20 in Arlington will be shut down until at least 5 p.m.

Fire officials have closed all westbound lanes of Interstate 20 from Green Oaks Boulevard to U.S. 287 and one eastbound I-20 lane while they respond to a wreck involving four 18-wheelers, one of which was ...

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Dallas Morning News

Federal judges order competency hearing for Texas death row inmate in Amy Robinson slaying

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a hearing to determine whether Michael Wayne Hall - one of two men convicted of torturing and killing 19-year-old Amy Robinson and leaving her body in a field ...

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Related Topix: US News, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Fort Worth Metro, Death Penalty, US Supreme Court

Sun Jul 06, 2008

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Teen sought in shooting death of Arlington 17-year-old

An Arlington 17-year-old died Saturday morning after another 17-year-old allegedly shot him, according to Arlington police.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Tarrant County, TX

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Arlington police get a Cowboys-inspired makeover

Even the police are getting a makeover as the city prepares for the Dallas Cowboys stadium.

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Sat Jul 05, 2008

Star-telegram.com

20,000-plus celebrate with parade in Arlington

By ALEXA GARCIA-DITTA ARLINGTON - For the past 10 Independence Days, Lewon and Kathleen Simpson have enjoyed their morning newspaper and doughnuts on the corner of Fourth and Mitchell streets, and this year ...

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Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Mansfield, TX, Grand Prairie, TX, Tarrant County, TX

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Arlington, Texas is located in Tarrant County and is part of the Fort Worth Metro Area. Zip codes in Arlington include 76017, 76010, and 76016.

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