Lake Worth News

I recently found myself arguing with a police officer after wiping out on Main Street.

Jun 25, 2009 6:16 pm US/Central Reporting Joel Thomas FORT WORTH A North Texas man thought he was going to watch a movie in peace.

Two young lives ended over the weekend in accidents in North Texas waters. Last year, the number of drownings doubled from the previous year, and this season has already proven to be deadly.

The State of Texas is on its way to setting a grim record in child drowning deaths.

A boy who died Saturday after a plastic inner tube he was on collided with a personal watercraft on Lake Worth has been identified as John Henderson III, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's Web site on Sunday.

The Fort Worth Fire Department dive team recovered a body Monday afternoon from Lake Worth while helping police investigate a possible suicide, a fire official said.

A state district judge is considering whether to recuse the Tarrant County district attorney's office from the appellate case of Death Row inmate Chelsea Richardson because of allegations of misconduct by the prosecutor.

Some restaurants are inverters : You arrive in a bad mood, and they quickly turn your frown upside down.

The Lake Dallas and Lake Worth school districts joined others Tuesday in closing amid concerns about swine flu.

Schools across North Texas are reopening following a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control that says schools in the U.S. no longer have to close because of swine flu.

On the same day North Texas school closings mounted because of the swine flu outbreak, national and local health officials saw "encouraging signs" Monday that things might be improving.

The third and final suspect involved in a local gun store robbery has been arrested and awaits extradition to the Parker County Sheriff's Office, according to a release issued Thursday.

Little remained of Broadway Baptist Church on April 6, 1909, a few days after the blaze.

Mar 26, 2009 4:06 pm US/Central Reporting Joel Thomas FORT WORTH An Azle woman is recovering from injuries that doctor's rarely see in a living person.

GUN PACKING CLERK SENDS THIEVES RUNNING Fort Worth police are searching for two armed men who attempted to rob a 99 Cent Store.

Jessica Johnston has always done pretty well at Tarrant County's Junior Livestock Show.

Sleek and stylish. Spontaneous and active. The adjectives sound like an ideal romantic partner.

Staff Reports Parker County Sheriff's deputies arrested three people Saturday after a routine traffic stop revealed the suspects to be in possession of a quantity of suspected methamphetamine.

Toney moved from Death Row FORT WORTH - Michael Toney, whose 1999 death sentence for the bombing of a Lake Worth trailer was overturned last year, has been transferred from Death Row to the Tarrant County ...

Keller and Lake Worth are the latest area school districts to boost superintendent pay despite worries about the wobbly economy.