Recently added articles from The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX):
Payne Stewart's son playing for SMU golf team.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Nichols UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas _ It wasn't long after the runaway jet carrying golfer Payne Stewart and five others crashed into a South Dakota pasture. Millions had watched the event play out on TV, helpless and horrified. Jon Brendle, a PGA Tour rules ...
Criminal Alien Program puts Hispanics in Texas city on edge.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Brandon Formby IRVING, Texas _ For 20 years, Ruben and Martha Carranza saw Irving as a melting pot of cultures. Here, they were encouraged to live out their version of the American dream _ building a respectable life as they worked and raised their children. ...
WWII revealed a sense of community the country has never quite regained.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: William McKenzie My hunch is that for many of us, our fascination with World War II stems from a deep, hidden yearning for community. We respect the bravery of soldiers who served and bled for their country, but the new Ken Burns documentary, following the Tom Brokaw ...
Fender to reproduce Stevie Ray Vaughan's `Lenny' guitar.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Daniel DALLAS _ Hey, Stevie Ray Vaughan fans: Has Fender got a deal for you! Starting Dec. 12, you can buy a Lenny. The Fender Custom Shop will produce 250 replicas of Lenny, one of the late guitarist's two primary performance guitars. It got ...
Cooler water could create warming trend for anglers.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Ray Sasser DALLAS _ A rainy spring and summer produced unusually slow fishing at many Dallas-area lakes, but experts predict improved action with cooler water temperatures. October and November are traditionally excellent fishing months, and this year should be better ...
Where have all the hunters gone _ and why?
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Ray Sasser DALLAS _ A recent reader e-mail asked for my take on the decline in hunter numbers. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the number of American hunters 16 and older dropped 10 percent between 1996 and 2006. Here are four factors that I ...
Author Strobel writes another `Case'.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Sam Hodges Lee Strobel's book "The Case for Christ" has sold nearly 3.5 million copies. An atheist-turned-evangelical with a background in law and journalism, he's written several other best-sellers. He's discussing his new book, "The Case for the Real Jesus." Strobel ...
Reviews of religious books.
Oct 10, 2007 ... BOOKS "Islamic Imperialism" Efraim Karsh (Yale University Press, 304 pages, $17) Efraim Karsh has written a book based on the selection and presentation of already well-known facts. His central thesis is that there has been a persistent strain ...
LBJ tapes reveal president asked Eisenhower for support.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Robert T. Garrett Oct. 10--AUSTIN -- Tapes released Tuesday show a U.S. president furious at news media coverage of a war, worried about a fledgling democracy thousands of miles away and trying to rally a skeptical public, even as members of his own party criticized the ...
The Dallas Morning News Lawson Taitte column: Savvy salesmen: Persuasive cast closes the deal in DTC's 'Glengarry Glen Ross'.(Column)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Lawson Taitte Oct. 10--Some actors perform David Mamet's plays the way the playwright likes, with a formal emphasis on the poetically profane language. Others make the plays seem more natural -- and some of us prefer it that way, whatever Mr. Mamet thinks. ...
BRIEF: Mark Cuban in the 'Dancing' game a little longer.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--For the second week in a row, Mark Cuban avoided landing in the bottom two on Tuesday night's results episode of Dancing With the Stars, thus sparing him from elimination. That honor went to the show-biz legend with the huge fan base but feet of clay -- Wayne Newton. With Wayne ...
EDITORIAL: Protect the Guiltless: Senate study should bolster innocence commission: Senate study should bolster innocence commission.(Editorial)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--An innocence commission can become reality in Texas only with vigorous support from the heaviest hitters in Austin. Fortunately, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst plans to order a Senate study on the proposal, a move that we hope will provide the needed momentum. The concept is ...
EDITORIAL: First, Educate Yourself.(Editorial)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--This doesn't work: Income, sales, property -- it doesn't matter. I will never support any tax increase for anything. We are so overtaxed that we need another Boston Tea Party. Let them learn to live within their means. Of course, this doesn't either: ...
EDITORIAL: Sputnik's Science Spark.(Editorial)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite 50 years ago this month, Americans responded with an imperative to greatly improve science and math education. It worked. The federal government made aggressive investments in the public school curriculum and teacher ...
The Dallas Morning News Alan Peppard column: Barry Switzer's friends make his 70th birthday special.(Column)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Alan Peppard Oct. 10--It was an unprecedented request that got Bob Sambol to close his Bob's Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue on one of the most profitable nights of the year, the night before the Texas-OU game. Bob even turned away OU's living legend ...
Medicare premiums to rise 3.1% next year.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Moos Oct. 2--Medicare beneficiaries will pay 3.1 percent more in premiums for physician services next year, the smallest increase since 2001. But the good news doesn't necessarily mean Medicare has tamed health care inflation. Medicare ...
The Dallas Morning News Jacquielynn Floyd column: Indictments long time coming in Dallas City Hall corruption probe.(Column)
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jacquielynn Floyd Oct. 2--Way, way back in the summer of 2005, when FBI agents raided several local politicians' offices and wheeled away carloads of records, official Dallas had some pointed advice for those foot-draggin' feds: Make it snappy. Good grief, we ...
The Dallas Morning News James Ragland column: City Hall members bowed to temptation, created tension.(Column)
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: James Ragland Oct. 2--Dallas city government is a giant cookie jar. So it's not the least bit surprising that the temptation to stick one's hands where they don't belong might get the best of some. But let's be fair: I don't want to suggest that ...
TYC to move all inmates from W. Texas center, end contract: Conditions at juvenile facility called deplorable; Perry lauds 'decisive action'.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Emily Ramshaw and Holly Becka Oct. 2--Texas Youth Commission officials will pull the 197 TYC inmates out of a West Texas juvenile justice center Tuesday and cancel their contract with the company that runs it, citing deplorable conditions at the state's largest privately ...
Parents decide class placement of multiple-birth children: New state law has schools, parents asking: Should siblings learn together or apart?
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Kathy A. Goolsby Oct. 2--Cami Smith had to fight last year to keep her twins Lexi and Katelyn together in first grade. The identical sisters were in the same preschool and kindergarten classes, and the family's recent move to a new neighborhood made their parents want to ...