Tarrant County News

Share + Nov 19, 2009 9:58 pm US/Central Reporting Carol Cavazos FORT WORTH Tarrant County spent $440,000 this fiscal year for paupers' burials.

The Collin County health department has received 6,500 doses of the swine flu vaccine from the state this week and is distributing them to private clinics and hospitals.

MIKE NORMAN If anybody needed more proof that poverty has grown 'outside the loop' in Tarrant County, even in what historically have been thought of as wealthy areas, this should be it.

By MARTHA DELLER FORT WORTH - Longtime Fort Worth attorney Timmie White will fill the Tarrant County magistrate's post left vacant when Robert Cortez retired this month.White, 54, was selected Tuesday by the county's criminal court judges after a five-judge committee narrowed about 30 applicants to three finalists, 372nd District Judge Scott ...

The investigation into the remains of three infants found hidden in Tarrant County has not hit a dead end, but detectives need a break.

A man convicted of killing his daughter's boyfriend outside a Haltom City warehouse has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.

A small aircraft made a hard landing in northwest Fort Worth Tuesday morning. A witness, Richard Barbian, said the pilot of the Piper Seneca II reported mechanical problems shortly after takeoff from Hicks Airfield.

By MITCH MITCHELL A Grand Prairie man initially suspected of murder was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two unrelated retaliation charges and a burglary charge, according to authorities.Charles Baker was a suspect in the death of Tara Nicole Pittman, a 32-year-old woman who was struck by an SUV on Texas 360 on Dec.

The Tarrant County District Attorney's office is taking to a grand jury the case of a Fort Worth home owner who shot and killed two apparent burglars last Friday, November 6. Fort Worth Police say he fired after they kicked in his front door, and were inside his house.

Prosecutors say a woman already accused in the hot-car death of her 17-month-old son while she was at work has been indicted on a felony murder charge.

Tarrant County Public Health officials said they plan to distribute some 14,300 doses of the H1N1 vaccine to residents inA high-risk groups on Thursday, Nov.

Tarrant County records another swine flu death. It's the 7th of the year as the county takes in a big shipment of the H1N1 vaccine.

A 48-year-old man man was in critical condition Friday at a Fort Worth hospital after he was shot in the groin during an early-morning domestic disturbance at a home in southeast Tarrant County, officials said.A 911 caller reported at about 4 a.m. that the man was shot by a 56-year-old woman at a home in the 7400 block of Cabbot Estates Drive, ...

Originally published November 13, 2009 at 8:04 a.m., updated November 13, 2009 at 8:08 a.m. FORT WORTH, Texas a ' Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson says a 36-year-old woman identified through DNA as the mother of three babies whose decomposed remains were found in rural northern Texas under a mobile home porch and nearby has been arrested.

A large shipment of the injectable H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Tarrant County and distribution to people in the high-risk target populations will begin next week.

Investigators have arrested a woman identified as the mother of three infant corpses found hidden under a trailer in Rendon in southern Tarrant County.

" A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday allowing two Tarrant County College students to stage their "empty holster" protest at the community college campuses.U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means said in his ruling that Clayton Smith and John Schwertz Jr., who attend TCC Northeast Campus in Hurst, can wear empty gun holsters and ...

Two men have been arrested in connection with arson fires over the summer at two Arlington schools.

Kroger plans to build one of its 123,000-square foot grocery and general merchandise stores in Tarrant County's Alliance Town Center.

By YAMIL BERARD FORT WORTH - More than 80 community leaders have formed a coalition intended to better serve an estimated 100,000 county residents with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and similar conditions.The Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Needs Council of Tarrant County will begin meeting in January, leaders of state and ...