Tarrant County News

The remains of 25 children discovered in unmarked graves beneath Richland Chambers Reservoir have been relocated to a new final resting place.

Fire Chief Danny Thomas said that no one was injured but that the 3,100-square-foot home of a family of four burned quickly from the attic to the second floor.

The driver must exhale into the device before trying to start the vehicle. If the device shows a blood-alcohol level higher than the one programmed into the device, the vehicle won't start.

Sure, three committee chairmen, key people on his leadership team, got bounced out of their jobs largely because constituents deemed the brand of Republican conservatism they share with Straus to be not conservative enough.

Two area Republican lawmakers sent to the political sidelines by voters Tuesday were likely the victim of an anti-incumbent environment that continues to prevail over legislative and congressional races, a political analyst said Wednesday.

In his Tuesday story, "Many ex-offenders trapped in vicious cycle: no job, no home," Mitch Mitchell identified the many problems ex-offenders face that limit their opportunities to become contributing members of the Tarrant County community.

A little life vest wearing dog that slipped off a boat in the Chicago River Sunday is back with his owners after a nearly 24 hour search, and the help of some Good Samaritans.

Fort Worth-area commuters who spend time on Northeast Tarrant County roads are going through hell right now, figuratively speaking.

The night started out badly for state Rep. Todd Smith. Early voting gave his opponent, state Rep.

Several firefighter crews tried to contain a 2-alarm mobile home fire in the unincorporated part of Tarrant County on Tuesday night.

A few of the highest-level Republicans of the Texas House lost their jobs in primary elections Tuesday night, and others will be headed to runoffs.

Incumbent Tarrant County commissioners carried the day in Tuesday's primaries, but a number of other county races appeared likely go to runoffs, according to unofficial early election results.

A blue norther was blowing that February day in 2009, back when almost nobody in Tarrant County had ever heard of a Tea Party.

Before results were posted immediately on the Internet and back when the office was in the basement of the historic courthouse, throngs of political observers, operatives and campaign representatives would cram in boisterously to get the latest tallies.

A Tarrant County jury deliberated for just 30 minutes Tuesday before handing a life sentence to a Fort Worth man who told jurors he didn't mean to hurt his fiancee's 2-year-old daughter.

Lanesha Bougere, 16, waits for her grandmother to vote at the City of Arlington South Service Center in Arlington on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

Fort Worth's state Rep. Marc Veasey has edged into an early lead in the 11-way Democratic race for the newly drawn 33rd Congressional District, although former Dallas City Councilman Domingo Garcia and Fort Worth City Councilwoman Kathleen Hicks remain very much in striking distance.

From North Texas to Austin to D.C., our insiders take you beyond the usual rhetoric on government and politics Former State District Judge Bob McGrath narrowly led Tarrant County GOP ChairmaN Jennifer Hall in absentee and early voting results for the party's Tarrant County chairmanship.

From North Texas to Austin to D.C., our insiders take you beyond the usual rhetoric on government and politics Shortly after noon, things were moving pretty slowly at Precinct 2524 in Mansfield, one of the busiest precincts in Tarrant County.

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