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FW to naked gardner: Put some pants on

The FW Star-Telegram reports a deputy city marshall cited a 71-year-old man after she spotted him running a weed whacker in his yard while wearing nothing but a pair of shoes. He got a ticket because he was potentially visible...


Boxer-wearing soldier loves NY, but FW is closer to his heart

Tarrant County resident and Army Spec. Zach Boyd is famous this week for a front-page story in the New York Times that shows him at a remote forward base in Afghanistan, engaged in a firefight with Taliban - while wearing...


Star-Telegram to Time: No flowers yet

Time magazine recently listed the Fort Worth Star-Telegram among 10 U.S. newspapers on the endangered list. But a Startlegram editor has a word or two for those doomsday types from Back East....


Competent robber, lousy drag queen

The Star-Telegram has photos of a skinny guy who robbed a Haslet bank after disguising himself with a floppy red wig and a massive fake bosom. He got away with the cash, but a person would have to be awfully...


Report: State overstocked with eggheads, needs worker bees

Texas is doing too little to train its students for skilled-labor jobs in petrochemical, medical, and other fields - and oversupplying itself with unemployable college grads in the bargain. So says an extremely interesting piece in the Star-Telegram, based on...


S-T guy: "Free range" parent or criminal?

Over on the crime blog, my pal Sel outlines the story of a FW Star-Telegram columnist who was charged with child abandonment after telling his 11-year-old son to walk home - a distance the writer describes as "a few blocks"...


Southlake Carroll, home of championship football and ... sushi?

So says the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. At this fall's Dragon games, fans will be able to order, in addition to good old hot dogs, popcorn and nachos, a $5 sampler with three types of sushi. (All cooked -- the...


Fort Worth Star-Telegram among McClatchy papers reducing work force

Will the hemorrhaging ever stop?...

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