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The council this morning unanimously approved two tax abatements (Click here for the Star-Telegram's original print story). - Scott Nishimura, Star-Telegram Fort Worth City Hall reporter Twitter: @JScottNishimura
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The adoptive parents of a 4-year-old boy who died two months ago were arrested Monday on a felony warrant accusing them of injury to a child, police reported. The boy, Buddy Cook, was found dead at the family home March 22. Officials said then that he appeared to be "skin and bones."
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The poor population in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington suburbs has risen 111 percent increase from 2000 to 2011, according to a new Brookings Institution book that shows that poverty is rapidly shifting from the nation's inner cities to suburbia.
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A half-dozen public universities in North Texas, straining under record enrollment growth, would receive more than $350 million for brick-and-mortar expansion projects under a state bond package that won preliminary approval in the Texas House Monday night.
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Have more to add? News tip? Tell us The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm.
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Two men attempt to pry open a door on this car to check for victims in a business parking lot west of I-35 south of 4th Street in Moore, on Monday, May 20, 2013.A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.
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Have more to add? News tip? Tell us Search and rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers were expected to climb, officials said Tuesday.
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Have more to add? News tip? Tell us The last thing George Whitfield Jr. expected was for Johnny Manziel to throw the ball. The Texas A&M star, after all, was blindfolded. Whitfield, a "quarterback whisperer" or, as he calls himself, a "quarterback engineer," had never attempted the now-named Zorro drill with one of his protégés.
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Have more to add? News tip? Tell us The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening intently as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of Monday's deadly tornado.
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A half-dozen public universities in North Texas, straining under record enrollment growth, would receive more than $350 million for brick-and-mortar expansion projects under a state bond package that won preliminary approval in the Texas House Monday night.
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Have more to add? News tip? Tell us A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.