Farmers Branch News

Tracking the city's 10,000 registered pets may soon get a lot easier - both for their owners and animal control officials.

When 16-year-old Stephanie Tilden, a junior at Ursuline Academy, began brainstorming about ideas for her Gold Award Project, she knew she wanted to help at-risk homeless children.

Despite the ongoing recession, employees of the home security company Monitronics gave wholeheartedly this month for an outstanding cause.

Farmers Branch artist Gail Cope is the featured artist for October in the 2010 Visual Arts Society of Texas Calendar.

Real estate editor Steve Brown compiles this list. Sales A local investor purchased a 40,000-square-foot office complex at 710 Watson Road in Arlington.

Brookhaven College of Farmers Branch, Texas, is living up to its No. 1 seed in the Division III national junior college volleyball tournament.

A 37-year-old man from Farmers Branch has been charged with capital murder in connection with the deaths of a 30-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter.

On November 10, 2009 at approximately 10:46, Kaufman County Sheriffs Office received a 911 call in reference to two bodies that had been discovered in a bar ditch on County Road 280, just off of County Road 987 in Kaufman County area known as Post Oak Bend.

Martin McKee of Farmers Branch is facing two capital murder charges after being arrested in connection with the deaths of a woman and a girl in Kaufman County.

By MITCH MITCHELL North Texas health care officials are seeking blood donations to restock supplies depleted by response to the mass shooting at Fort Hood.Carter BloodCare sent out several units of O-negative blood and several units of platelets Thursday to answer the military's call for additional supplies.

News 8 has received many calls from people who are moved by the tragic shootings at Fort Hood and want to help.

At R.L. Turner High School's annual veteran's day program in Farmers Branch on Wednesday, servicemen stood up and were recognized for their service and sacrifice for their country.

The Dallas County district attorney's office has for the second time dismissed a murder charge against a doctor accused of killing his wife.

The state health department is significantly changing the way it distributes swine flu vaccine, giving more control of vaccine supplies to local health departments under a plan announced Wednesday.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 1:12 pm US/Central A federal appeals court has affirmed a ruling against three Latino voters who tried to change how council members are elected in Farmers Branch, one of several American cities trying to drive out illegal immigrants through a series of ordinances.

The City Council in a 3-2 vote decided to allow limited sales of alcoholic beverages during events at city parks.

The state of Texas plans on cutting of shipments of the H1N1 vaccine to a clinic that allegedly is offering up doses to anyone willing to pay.

Dallas and Tarrant counties are holding Swine Flu shot clinics today aimed at high-risk groups like children and pregnant women.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 4:16 pm US/Central By Kent Chapline, with additional reporting by Stephanie Lucero FARMERS BRANCH 1 of 1 Doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine sit in a basket at Rush University Medical Center on Oct.

The line wrapped around the building at the W.G. Thomas Coliseum in Haltom City as hundreds of people waited to receive swine flu vaccinations this morning.