Third through eighth grade students living in Fort Worth made modest gains on state reading and math exams this year, but continue to trail their peers across Tarrant County and Texas, according to STAAR results released Tuesday. Schools within Fort Worth city limits increased 2 percentage points in
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A longtime Fort Worth financial institution is being acquired in a transaction set to close in the first quarter of next year. Fort Worth’s Colonial Savings, a financial institution with $502 million in assets that focuses on home mortgages, has agreed to be acquired by Gateway F...
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Memories of the old TCC Northwest Campus return to persistence coach Candace Soto as a string of used-to-bes. Soto graduated from Marine Creek Collegiate High School on the campus in 2014. She stayed at Tarrant County College to earn more credits before transferring to a four-yea...
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This weekend, music streamed from the streets between the George W. Hawkes Library and Theatre Arlington. The songs ranged in genre and were interspersed with the sounds of people talking to one of the more than 70 vendors along the corridor. The West Main Arts Festival spread ac...
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Frankie Louise Robinson Sorenson passed away on Sept. 1, 2026 at her home with her son Tony and wife Sheila, having lived a full life of love and devotion. Frankie was a quintessential woman of West Texas of her generation-young to marry, young to become a mother, devoted to fami...
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Leaders from across Texas will gather in Fort Worth this week to promote the state’s Black-owned businesses. The Texas Association of African American Chambers of Commerce will hold its 2026 annual conference Sept. 23-25 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Fort Worth South Hotel & Confer...
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Trinity Metro’s 2.1-mile TEXRail extension is moving forward after the agency’s board authorized agreements needed to construct and operate a new train station in south Fort Worth. Under the agreements approved on Monday afternoon, Baylor Scott & White Health will donate 1.76 acr...
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Property donation establishes site for new Near Southside/Medical District station FORT WORTH, Texas (Sept. 22, 2026) A public-private collaboration between Trinity Metro and Baylor Scott & White Health is advancing Trinity Metro’s TEXRail extension and creating a new regional tr...
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GLP-1 drugs have changed the way doctors treat diabetes and obesity, but dermatologists are now paying attention to what these medications may be doing to the skin. Dr. Katherine Durham with U.S. Dermatology Partners in Fort Worth says dermatologists have seen improvements in som...
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Texas lawmakers spent Tuesday discussing hotel occupancy taxes and whether the decades-old HOT programs are functioning as intended. That same day, the City of Dallas discussed in a Finance Committee meeting just how essential those revenues are in financing its new convention ce...
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Come together in unity with NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogy Society at the17th Annual Tarrant County Harambee Festival. The event spans two days from October 2-3 at the William Madison McDonald YMCA in Fort Worth. Families will enjoy a h...
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The gregarious, lighthearted, and athletic, David Leard O'Bannon, 84, found peace on Sept. 19, 2026, in Fort Worth. Funeral Service: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026 in Independence Chapel at Greenwood Mausoleum, 3210 White Settlement Rd., Fort Worth 76107, with a visitation on...
