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    Fort Worth is on Interstate highways 35W, 20, and 30 and the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in central Tarrant County. In January 1849 United States Army General William Jenkins Worth, hero of the Mexican War, proposed a line of ten forts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork, and Clear Fork of the Trinity River.

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    Fort Worth is part of the Dallas-Grand Prairie-Fort Worth urban complex, which has a combined population of 4.8 million. The city of Fort Worth houses around half a million people. Named after Major General William Worth, who was US Army commander in 1849, when a military outpost was established there, Fort Worth was a base for engagement with the Comanches.

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    Known as the city "Where the West Begins," Fort Worth, Texas embraces its cowboy heritage while moving forward with a revitalized downtown and major cultural attractions.

    With a friendly population of half a million people, Fort Worth is consistently ranked among the top places in the nation to work, live, and do business by national magazines like Money, Fortune, and Newsweek.


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    Tuesday 6th January, 2009 
  • Fort Worth man dies from 35-year-old gunshot wound
    Star-Telegram
    Fort WORTH — The scars on Craig Buford’s abdomen hinted at the shooting that almost took his life 35 years ago in Denver.The 54-year-old, who moved with his wife to Fort Worth about a...

  • Texas’ McCoy gets back at Buckeyes
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    The Texas quarterback was just a wide-eyed freshman playing his second college game in 2006 when No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Texas met in Austin and the Buckeyes waltzed out of town with a 24-7...

  • Burleson to issue immediate citations to energy companies over open gates at drill sites
    Star-Telegram
    Burleson — Immediate citations will be issued to energy companies if gates are found open at gas-drilling sites, the City Council decided Monday.Council members unanimously approved several...

  • Mansfield bus driver accused of pulling knife is fired
    Star-Telegram
    ... mdash; A bus driver accused of pulling a pocket knife on three Mansfield sixth-graders has been fired by the district, officials said Monday. William Allen,He has been...

  • Ice in North Texas left 48,000 without power
    Star-Telegram
    A cold, gray and, in places, icy day left 48,000 North Texas customers without power as of 8 p.m. Monday. Reports of outages rose steadily from the 17,000 reported early in the day as more people...

  • Abilene Christian beats Texas Woman
    The Miami Herald
    Jamie Meyer scored 49 points to help Abilene Christian overcome a 63-point effort by Renee Renz and beat Texas Woman's 147-143 in quadruple overtime on Monday night in a...

  • Jewel Charity prepares for a trip down the
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    What does that phrase conjure up? Visions of a turbaned Danny DeVito chasing Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner over the sand dunes of a Middle Eastern country in search of a fabulous treasure that...

  • Utah has a better case for No. 1 than Texas
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    For all its flaws — and there were many — the Fiesta Bowl was a highly entertaining and competitive football game with a storybook ending. It also came with a message for the BCS: You guys really...

  • Rally gives Texas consolation prize
    Salt Lake Tribune
    Corrects NAME OF TEXAS PLAYER TO QUAN CROSBY, INSTEAD OF JORDAN SHIPLEY ** Texas' Quan Cosby celebrates his touchdown against Ohio State during the third quarter of the Fiesta Bowl NCAA college...



  • Texas topples Ohio State in Fiesta Bowl
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    Left out of the national title game, Colt McCoy and Texas made the most of their trip to the Fiesta Bowl. They just hope they did enough to impress poll voters. McCoy hit Quan Cosby for a 26-yard...

  • A $2 million Fort Worth project aims to coordinate timing of traffic lights
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    Commuters will soon face fewer aggravations thanks to city plans to upgrade the technology that controls many Fort Worth traffic lights.Russ Wiles, who is managing the project for Fort Worth...

  • The former Menasco Aerosystems plant in east Fort Worth has been sold to Dallas investors
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    Fort WORTH — Vacant for more than eight years, the behemoth, former BF Goodrich landing-gear plant in far east Fort Worth has been bought by an investor group that has sold two parcels totaling...

  • Investigation of deadly Central Texas fire continues
    Waco Tribune-Herald
    Herald staff writers Officials continued Monday to investigate a house fire that killed a Hill County man. The fire broke out about 10 p.m. Saturday in a house...

  • Texas Southern defeats Alcorn St. 81-64
    The Miami Herald
    Ricky Boyles scored 16 of his career-high 22 points in the second half to help Texas Southern take its first victory of the season, an 81-64 win over Alcorn State on Monday...

  • 5 homeless shelter residents killed in Texas fire
    The Examiner
    ... in Paris, Texas. The fire tore through the small-town homeless shelter early...

  • Rayburn shoots Purdue past No. 4 Texas 66-55
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    Purdue guard Brittany Rayburn, front, drives to the basket and maneuvers around Texas guard Erika Arriaran in the second half of their game in West Lafayette, Ind. Rayburn led the Boilermakers with...

  • Florida State closes with 20-3 run, upsets No. 3 Texas A&M
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    Florida State's Jacinta Monroe, left, and Alysha Harvin celebrate the Seminoles' 60-53 upset over No. 3 Texas A&M following their game in Tallahassee, Fla. Monroe led Florida State with 15 points...

  • Blaze destroys Texas shelter, kills 5 men
    Boston Herald
    P Fire tore through a small-town homeless shelter early yesterday, partially collapsing the building and killing five men, fire officials said. The cause of the 3 a.m. blaze at the...

  • Former Texas governor candidate owes $21,000
    Corpus Christi Caller-Times
    A 69-year-old homebuilder from Corpus Christi who ran a long-shot campaign for governor in 2006 owes $21,000 in fines to the Texas Ethics Commission for filing reports late.

  • Cowboys Needing A Good Nose Tackle
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    Liz ANDRADE, FOLSOM, CA: Will the Cowboys continue to cater to Terrell Owens' whining? I was really disappointed when Bill Parcells quit, and I think this was due to T.O.'s attitude. Nick: Ok, but...

  • DC.com Writers Ponder Cowboys
    Dallas Cowboys
    Looking back on the 2008 season won't be easy for the Dallas Cowboys, who finished 9-7 and without a playoff appearance for the first time in three years. Looking ahead - making off-season...

  • Jones Says The Change Starts With Him
    Dallas Cowboys
    Facing the barrage of questions he always does in a postgame locker room, Jerry Jones didn't have any answers following Sunday's loss in Philadelphia. No one did. But two days later, after a...

  • U.S. Steel to close tubing unit in Dallas
    Business Journal
    U.s. Steel Tubular Products Inc., a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel Corp., announced Monday it will exit the drawn-over-mandrel tubular products business. It plans to close its DOM...

  • BNSF Honored by Texas Native Americans
    Market Wire
    ... - BNSF Railway Company was recently honored as Corporation of the Year by both the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Texas and the...

  • Abraxas reports success with South Texas well
    Business Journal
    ... reports a new gas well in South Texas is producing 600,000 cubic feet of gas per day. Located in DeWitt County, the new well is currently producing the gas from the first section of the lateral with...

  • If Mexico shelled Texas, like Hamas shells Israel
    Haaretz
    Analogy One: A fanatical religious party wins a string of elections in Mexico's northern states, then stages a civil war to drive out the federal government and take full control.The party's charter...

  • Hillcrest, Texas Instruments unveil new remote control
    Business Journal
    Texas Instruments have partnered to create a more efficient type of remote control that eliminates the line-of-sight limitations of conventional infrared devices. The Rockville-based maker of...

  • Balfour Beatty buys into two Texas projects
    Philadelphia Business Journal
    Balfour Beatty Communities has paid $142 million to gain an interest in two phases of a military housing project in Texas. The Newtown Square, Pa., company bought into Phase I and Phase II of the...

  • Telemedicine Underutilized in Texas, Says Report
    US Government Technology
    ... end-of-year report to the Legislature on the effects of telemedicine in Texas Medicaid, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission found that only a small number of physicians utilized...

  • His lead for Texas speaker growing
    Corpus Christi Caller-Times
    Joe Straus, the Texas House speaker heir-apparent, vowed to reduce the influence of special interests in Austin and said nearly two-thirds of his fellow members support his candidacy now that...

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