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COVID underscores lack of whistleblower protections

FORT WORTH, Texas — Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses, welders used plasma torches while surrounded by flammable cardboard boxes, and laborers raised metal racks alongside a moving forklift, putting their feet in danger of being…

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Former Angels employee Eric Kay found guilty of drug charges in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

FORT WORTH, Texas — An opiate addict and dealer operating in the bowels of Angel Stadium, where he worked handling press inquiries, provided to a starting pitcher a fentanyl-laced pill that led him to aspirate vomit and die during a road trip to Texas in 2019, a jury in Fort…

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Mac Engel: NFL probe of Brian Flores' claim of 'tanking' is a lame diversion from real issue

FORT WORTH, Texas — The NFL's season was a few hours old when we learned the league is investigating a sports' sin that someone in our backyard was only too rich enough to admit routinely happens.

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TXOG Teams Up With Dr. Lisa Gardner To Drive Awareness For Medical Cannabis In Fort Worth, TX

Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation announced its collaboration with Dr. Lisa Gardner, co-founder of Thrive Medical Cannabis and Thrive Apothecary in Fort Worth, Texas, to educate qualifying patients about the benefits of medical cannabis.

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Tyler Skaggs' death was early sign of fentanyl problem in Tarrant County, officials testify

FORT WORTH, Texas — The death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019 was one of the first in Tarrant County involving fentanyl, and that number continues to increase, toxicologists testified Friday in federal court.

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Inside a dangerous TikTok trend that keeps sending Texas kids to the hospital

FORT WORTH, Texas — When a 14-year-old girl took 14 Benadryl pills in the middle of the night, her older sister called their grandmother for help, wanting to avoid getting in trouble with their parents.

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Mac Engel: 'Powder puff football' no more, Cowboys are backing girls varsity flag football

FORT WORTH, Texas — The concept of girls playing football is not new, and to a previous generation it was just called "powder puff football."

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TCU bounces back after Texas loss with win over No. 19 LSU

FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU did not have long to sniff the aroma left from the egg they laid Tuesday against Texas.

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‘Y’all know who I am, right?’ Fort Worth city council member says during DWI arrest

FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth city council member and Texas House candidate Cary Moon told Burleson police he once served as mayor of Fort Worth and asked officers to call the police chief during his October 2020 arrest on a driving while intoxicated charge.

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'Stealth omicron' is now in North Texas. Is it a new COVID variant? What we know

FORT WORTH, Texas — Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center say there are at least three cases of a new form of omicron, "stealth omicron," in North Texas.

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Mac Engel: The Texas Longhorns cleared out Shaka Smart to be better than this under Chris Beard

FORT WORTH, Texas — Inside the packed purple palace on Tuesday night in Fort Worth there was nary a Texas Tech Red Raiders fan on hand to yell and scream at their least-favorite former head coach.

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American Airlines moves up in on-time rankings, while Southwest falls behind

American Airlines moved ahead of several of its major competitors in on-time arrival rankings in 2021, despite a year of turbulence as the Fort Worth-based carrier and the rest of the aviation industry tried to find smoother skies in the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

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FBI director, Colleyville rabbi, security experts speak about hostage standoff and healing

FORT WORTH, Texas — In Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s first public meeting since Saturday’s hostage situation in Colleyville, he joined FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and Central Division Vice President Cheryl Drazin in discussing antisemitism, further investigation into the standoff at Congregation Beth Israel and…

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American Airlines pilots are protesting Thursday at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Here’s why

American Airlines’ union pilots are picketing Thursday at DFW International Airport as they push for a new contract with the carrier, but they aren’t ready to walk off the job anytime soon.

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American Airlines reports $2 billion in losses for 2021 as omicron weighs on near future

Fort Worth-based American Airlines lost $931 million in the fourth quarter to finish a 2021 year that was as much about surviving the COVID-19 and its variants as it was about recovering from the devastating pandemic, the company reported Thursday morning.

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Editorial: Don’t play politics with antisemitism

The recent hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, is a reminder that antisemitism is a growing and global scourge, one that has forced synagogues across the U.S. and Europe to post armed guards and bar their doors. The idea that members of Congress would block…

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Mac Engel: Former SMU star Eric Dickerson takes exception to Sonny Dykes leaving for TCU

FORT WORTH, Texas — It took decades but the best football player in SMU's history is in a good place with his alma mater, as evidenced by Eric Dickerson's feelings about the Mustangs' previous football coach leaving for a rival across town.

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Attacks on America’s Jewish community on the rise long before Colleyville, experts say

FORT WORTH, Texas — The hostage standoff inside a Colleyville synagogue Saturday reignited fears of antisemitic violence with news headlines that circled the globe. But for many Jewish Americans, the threat of such an attack — even at a small-town synagogue in North Texas — is something they live with…

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Cynthia M. Allen: As New York, DC turn to vaccine passports, here’s why pandemic life is better in Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requirements for our nation’s capital.

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