White Settlement News

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BY NATHANIEL JONES Some homes and businesses in White Settlement and west Fort Worth were without power Thursday morning, police said.The outage, which began at about 8:30 a.m., apparently was caused by a blown transformer, according to White Settlement police.

By BILL HANNA FORT WORTH - A panel of three commissioners on Tuesday decided that an old salvage yard on North Henderson Street that is being condemned for the Trinity Uptown project has a fair market value of $2.3 million.But the hearing was likely just another step in a long legal process to determine what the Tarrant Regional Water District ...

Commercial Metal Co. Recycling, a Fort Worth metal recycling plant, closed on 39 acres near Meacham Boulevard in north Fort Worth to relocate its business out of the path of the Trinity River Vision development planned along the banks of the Trinity River.

Authorities want to talk to the people who had rented a White Settlement home because of what they left behind.

By BILL MILLER A perimeter lock down was lifted Friday at three White Settlement schools after police, firefighters and federal agents removed what has been described as a military 'anti-personnel device' at a rent house that was recently vacated.Liberty Elementary School, Brewer Middle School and Mesa High School and Alternative Campus had been ...

By JOY TIPPING By 6:45 Saturday night, I finally had my roar turns down pat. But that air-guitar-ticktock move was still not quite there.

By CHRIS VAUGHN All over the state, development continues to scooch up against military bases.That development - big-ticket houses, apartment complexes, wind turbines and more - can endanger the military's training missions and flying patterns, and in the view of some government officials, make it more likely that a base will be closed or ...

No one seems to care about the disabled or older folks these days. They forget about all they have done for us with their years of service, helping others and fighting for our rights.

By MARTHA DELLER FORT WORTH - A 24-year-old White Settlement man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for strangling the mother of his two children after finding her with another man.A Tarrant County jury deliberated more than two hours Thursday before convicting Cipriano Ramon Almanza III in the April 6, 2008, murder of Cassandra Rojas, ...

We asked religious leaders how God would view a universal healthcare system. Here are the responses, compiled by Adrian McCandless:'Jesus was more concerned about 'lostness' than he was with illness.

Parker County Sheriff's Office Sheriff's Activity Call Log for Sept. 18 through Sept.

WEATHERFORD - A Reno man was arrested Thursday by officers investigating a string of burglaries across North Texas.

Share + Sep 3, 2009 4:12 pm US/Central Arezow Doost WHITE SETTLEMENT Don't shower... That's what the fire department in White Settlement has been telling some people living in an apartment complex.

A North Texas mom said she gets an electric shock every time she uses the bathtub.

His new job: Carl Henderson joined Southwest Bank as vice president of commercial lending for the Mansfield banking center.

By MARTHA DELLER FORT WORTH - As police and child-abuse investigators knocked on his door two years ago, Kenyon Cox climbed out a bedroom window with his girlfriend's three children, including a 12-year-old girl he was sexually assaulting, witnesses testified at Cox's trial this week.A week later, Cox fled from a White Settlement detective who ...

BY LINDSAY KALTER Holly Fisher set her alarm for 4 a.m. Monday, her first day of classes.

Here's a daily list of recent activities drawing the attention of North Texas law enforcement.