Grand Prairie News

It's not a common community sight these days to see horsemen riding down the neighborhood street in a metropolitan area.A But in Northwest Irving, the horse riders are holding on to a 100-year tradition that started with their forefathers.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8212 Amusement park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corp.

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Tarrant County commissioners on Tuesday approved a 10-year, $4.4 million tax abatement for Bell Helicopter's new headquarters building and training academy at its east Fort Worth complex along Texas 10.

The new distribution center is in response to the needs of the customers located in that region of the country, a company press release stated.

A substitute teacher at Irving High School has been arrested for sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old female student.

According to Irving police, 24-year-old Adron Tennell of Grand Prairie had an improper relationship with a student at the school.

Upset about recent decisions by the Dallas ISD school board, protesters chanted and marched Saturday morning outside one of board president Lew Blackburn's houses.

Protesters marched in front of what they said was the Tarrant County residence of DISD board president Lew Blackburn on Saturday.

Helen Mae Parr, age 84, of Metropolis, Ill., formerly of Collinsville, Ill., passed away Wednesday, Feb.

"I was 11 years old when Ron started," said Grand Prairie Police Chief Steve Dye, a 28-year police veteran who joined the department last year.

This year's big theme is the remarkable growth of the state's Hispanic population.

Retailers put out their spring merchandise by the Feb. 1. Women's swimsuits now greet shoppers as they enter Target on Eastchase Parkway in Fort Worth.

Acquisition of both PM Fuel Services Inc. in Grand Prairie, Texas, and Olmstead Oil Co.

Cook Children's Medical Center is in the home stretch of a $250 million expansion that is nearly doubling the size of its Fort Worth medical district campus.

NW Sign Industries, based in Moorestown, N.J., has leased a 92,500-square-foot warehouse in the Great Southwest Industrial District in Grand Prairie for a factory.

Dozens of parents are staking their place in line for the chance to get their children in Grand Prairie Independent School District open enrollment schools, known as "Schools of Choice." Because it's an open enrollment district, students don't have to live in Grand Prairie to choose to attend a school there.

This weekend offers an evening of pirate music and songs, comedy, and laughs for buccaneers of all ages at Uptown Theater's "Pirates on the Prairie" concert.

NW Sign Industries Inc. rented the 92,500-square-foot industrial building at 1170 109th St.

Texas Trust Credit Union took top honors, winning the 2011 Business of the Year Award, at the annual community awards ceremony of the Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce.