North Richland Hills News

By CHRIS VAUGHN NORTH RICHLAND HILLS - About a year ago, Ash Azer bought a building on Davis Boulevard with intentions to fix it up for his Allstate Insurance business.The building was years past its prime, the wood siding warped, the paint faded, the parking lot bumpy.Azer started by building a monument sign and landscaping near the street.

At Prestige Ameritech, machines make surgical masks 24 hours a day, alongside 200 employees.

By SANDRA BAKER NORTH RICHLAND HILLS - Prestige Ameritech, the largest maker of surgical masks in the U.S., could soon move to a former Tecnol surgical-mask plant in North Richland Hills to gain much-needed expansion space, a company executive said.The company, which has three facilities in Richland Hills and Fort Worth totaling 50,000 square ...

Prestige Ameritech LP, a manufacturer of surgical masks, plans to turn a former Kimberly-Clark surgical mask factory in North Richland Hills, Texas, into what the company is calling a 'global pandemic preparedness and response center.' U.S. hospitals are experiencing a pandemic-related mask and respirator shortage, according to Prestige Ameritech.

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, attempted a bit of political theater this week.

A production crew from America's Most Wanted a ' the US equivalent of Crimewatch a ' will come to Northampton this weekend to film a pioneering fingerprint scientist in the hope of cracking a high profile case.

A Leicester scientist behind a major breakthrough in fingerprinting is to appear on America's Most Wanted, the US TV version of Crimewatch, a university said.

Aubrey High School will compete for the Class 2A University Interscholastic League State Marching Band title Monday at San Antonio's Alamodome.

Tarrant County health officials began turning away people who did not meet the high-risk qualification to receive the swine flu vaccine at the W.G. Thomas Coliseum in Haltom City.

By MAE ANDERSON NEW YORK - The recession hasn't been so scary for Halloween stores.

While running errands, I have noticed a concept new to me: wedding chapels. I find three within several miles of my North Richland Hills home, another three if I expand my radius and count wedding chapels in strip malls.

Thomas Harrington went to an emergency room in 2007 for a smashed finger. The hospital was in his network; the doctor who treated him wasn't. The hospital, Denton Regional Medical Center, was included in his insurer's network, after all.

A North Richland Hills man was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison for possessing child pornography, according to a news release.Robert Cesare, 38, must also serve five years of supervised release following his prison term, said U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks in the news release.The sentence was ordered by U.S. District Judge John ...

It was a cold January evening when Chuck and Peggy Walton of North Richland Hills decided to try out Pizza Hut's new pasta dish and to order it through the company's Web site for home delivery.

Shelters and housing programs are stretched thin as the stress of the recession leads to more frequent and violent domestic abuse across the country, a North Texas family shelter said Tuesday.

Here's another way to get annoyed that didn't exist a few years ago: You get a red-light camera ticket for driving through an intersection.

Where there are four people, there should be full tables. Business is down about 70% over the past several weeks at D'Vine Wine, a winery and tasting room in Grapevine.

The North Richland Hills Police Department is asking for the publics help in catching a suspect in a Valero store robbery.

Winfree Academy Charter Schools announced Friday it would closed its six school campuses an extra day because of the large number of students who have been sick.

The public will be able to see Allen's brand-new CHL team for the first time when it plays the Texas Brahmas at 7:05 p.m. today at NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills.