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Loren Coleman on November 5th, 2009 Click image for full-size version Word has reached Cryptomundo from the family of Sallie Ann Clarke, 80, that she passed away on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

Sallie Ann Clarke created a niche for herself: She became an authority on the Lake Worth Monster, Tarrant County's answer to Bigfoot that popped out of nowhere in 1969.

If the Tarrant County Elections Department's objective was to discourage voter participation Tuesday, then it succeeded.

By MITCH MITCHELL Flashback.It's Christmas Day 2008, and volunteers with the Goodfellow Fund are counting donations anxiously, hoping to overcome a $17,000 shortfall in their goal to assist nearly 16,000 families.It takes several days to enter all the donations, but by the time they finish counting, the shortfall has been erased, and the charity ...

BY MARTHA DELLER FORT WORTH -- A former Western Hillls teacher and coach was sentenced Thursday to 10 years' probation for having a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old female student.Jurors deliberated more than four hours over two days before recommending that 29-year-old Rudolph Anthony Garza serve no prison time.

The Naval Air Station Regional Coordination Committee - a consortium of officials from the six cities that border Naval Air Station Fort Worth, plus Tarrant County and the North Central Texas Council of Governments - has endorsed Proposition 1. But committee leaders also said they want to dispel any impression that they are urging cities to go on a ...

October 6, 2009 Comment on this article Mackenzie Leigh Thompson and Matthew Bryan Wiatrek were united in holy matrimony Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. in the St.

I take issue with Punch Shaw's Oct. 3 review of the performance by Texas Ballet Theater at Bass Hall.

By JAN JARVIS The first shipment of swine flu vaccine arrived in North Texas on Monday as a seventh person infected with the virus, H1N1, died in Dallas County.The 700 doses that Dallas County received will go to first responders, such as police and firefighters, to create a safety net, said Zachary Thompson, director the Dallas County Department ...

By JAN JARVIS After the quick flu death of a healthy Benbrook teenager this week, more parents are demanding that their children be given Tamiflu when they come down with flu-like symptoms.'No question about it, more Tamiflu is being prescribed than is really needed,' said Dr.

Barry Shlachter, Scott Nishimura and Sandra Baker All we know is what baseball living legend Bobby Bragan told us: Fort Worth Cats owner Carl Bell 'desperately wants to sell the team.'Neither Bell nor a purported interested party returned phone calls seeking illumination or even a brusque 'no comment.'Two sources who asked not to be identified ...

By ALEX BRANCH and JAN JARVIS Health officials are investigating whether a Leonard Middle School student who died Sunday after being hospitalized with flulike symptoms had the H1N1 swine flu.

The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, started toying with the idea of powered flight in 1899 after writing to the Smithsonian Institution requesting information about flight experiments.

The family of Mary Ann Morgan Gracey gathered last month to say goodbye to a sister and mother, gone at 81 after a lifetime of working with children as a teacher and language therapist in Fort Worth.

It may not be a cafA© or restaurant, but you can bite into a juicy peach or bright red tomato, eat a moist blueberry scone, and sniff the perfume of fresh flowers at the Cowtown Farmers Market on the Benbrook traffic circle at highways 377 and 183.

By ELIZABETH CAMPBELL BENBROOK - Sherie Elsey has fond childhood memories of playing along the heavily wooded creek banks at Pecan Valley Park.

Phil Riddle editor@weatherforddemocrat.com Three of four voters in this week's www.weatherforddemocrat.com online poll feel residents of Weatherford should be under some sort of water conservation measures.

A little known discount has evaporated from the price Weatherford citizens pay for water, and the average residential water bill is expected to increase by approximately 50 percent as a result.

Mercedes Paniagua, left, a customer attendant at Splash Station, teaches 4-year-old Makayla Alnzo, daughter of Bianca Zinno of Benbrook, the Macarena on Friday during Fiesta Friday at Splash Station.

The 2,000-acre patch of tall-grass prairie near Lake Benbrook that Jarid Manos took on as a cause four years ago still hasn't been bought by environmental groups, turned into a park, or otherwise saved from development.