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Southern sector's piece of the doughnut Good news for southern Dallas and the south suburbs, which have long clamored for greater attention to their highway needs. Cintra-Zachary, a consortium of Spanish and San Antonio companies, has notified the state transportation department that it wants to build the east-west Loop 9 tollroad project. Next step is a detailed proposal. Loop 9 eventually could be a segment of the proposed Big Doughnut super-outer-loop that would hook into the state's plan for the Trans Texas Corridor.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has led a pep rally for a $7 billion highway project that will loop around the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, but is being opposed by landowners who will see their private property taken by the state. A report on KWTX said the tollway to be built by the Spanish-based Cinta-Zachry consortium is part of an "ambitious" $184 billion plan for a network of superhighway transportation corridors around the state. Those, in turn, are expected to be part of the nationwide network of NATFA superhighways that are planned to run from Mexico to Canada, dividing the United...

Flanked by Dallas County and state officials, Gov. Rick Perry led a bipartisan pep rally Wednesday for the $7 billion Trans-Texas Corridor, his sprawling transportation project that has drawn criticism from several quarters. Perry announced that the private sector has offered to build the southern sector of Loop 9 as a toll road. The proposed outer loop around the Dallas metropolitan area has been under study for decades and could eventually tie in with the corridor project. Cintra-Zachry, a U.S.-Spanish consortium proposing to build the first segments of the corridor, has notified the Texas Department of Transportation that the company...

After months of stalemates, state and regional leaders sat at the same table last week and officially hashed out many of their differences over the Trans-Texas Corridor and other planned toll roads. And in a moment of lighthearted symbolism, they shared a few doughnuts. I'll explain later. The Texas Transportation Commission, at its regular meeting Thursday in Austin, approved an agreement that lays out the future of at least six toll projects in North Texas. The agreement specifies which agency – the Transportation Department or the North Texas Tollway Authority – will build these toll roads: along State Highways 121...

AUSTIN - A proposed toll road that would encircle Dallas-Fort Worth has a new nickname: the Doughnut. Texas Transportation Commission members passed out Krispy Kreme doughnuts Thursday to symbolize their support for the outer loop, which would be built in segments from 2011 to 2030 as part of the Trans-Texas Corridor. They also celebrated the commission's approval Thursday of a new road-building partnership among Metroplex cities and counties, the North Texas Tollway Authority and the state. The partnership would also work with any companies wishing to build private toll roads in the area. "We are committed to the Doughnut," commission...

RICHLAND, Wash. -- A stolen truck full of doughnuts? Better believe Tri-Cities police were on that in a hurry. Moments after the theft of the Viera's Bakery van was reported early Friday in Kennewick, police issued an all-points bulletin. A Benton County sheriff's deputy quickly spotted the truck. After a chase at 30 to 35 mph, Richland police got it to stop and arrested the driver, Steve Swoboda, 19, for investigation of auto theft and felony escape. Still intact was the entire load of glazed, sugar and cream doughnuts, as well as apple fritters, bear claws. "In 24 years in...

Someone stole a Krispy Kreme truck from an Orlando supermarket Thursday morning. It happened at the Albertson's store on West Colonial Drive, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported. The driver left the truck running, and when he came back, his truck was gone along with $2,000 worth of doughnuts. So far, deputies haven't recovered the truck or doughnuts.

<p>SLIDELL, LA. -- Police followed a trail of doughnuts as they chased down two thieves in Louisiana.</p> <p>A woman is under arrest and her companion is on the run after allegedly stealing a doughnut truck in Slidell.</p> <p>Police say the driver of the Krispy Kreme truck told them he left the back doors open and the motor running while delivering doughnuts to a gas station. Next thing he knew, two people jumped in and drove off, spilling boxes of doughnuts out the back.</p>

There was a boy by the name of Steve who was attending Seminary in Utah. In Utah, Seminary classes are held as part of the curriculum. Brother Christianson taught Seminary at this particular school. He had an open-door policy and would take in any student that had been thrown out of another class as long as they would abide by his rules. Steve had been kicked out of his sixth period and no other teacher wanted him, so he went into Brother Christianson's Seminary class. Steve was told that he couldn't be late, so he would come in just seconds...

Stocks: Breaking News: Former Krispy Kreme Workers File Harrassment Suit Breaking News Former Krispy Kreme Workers File Harrassment Suit May 20, 2003 SEATTLE (Dow Jones)--Several former employees of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc . (KKD) filed a lawsuit against the company alleging that supervisors sexually harassed employees and then fired those who complained. The suit, filed in King County Superior Court, also contends that Krispy Kreme paid Hispanic workers less than white workers who performed the same work. Representatives from Krispy Kreme, Winston Salem, N.C., weren't immediately available to respond to the allegations. The complaint alleges that one supervisor at a...

Monday, 6 January, 2003, 17:58 GMTMilky Way's star 'doughnut' A ring of stars surrounds the Milky Way A vast, but previously unknown structure has been discovered around the edges of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The first large area surveys of the sky have revealed several hundred million stars surrounding the galaxy's main disc. The ring, which has the appearance of a giant doughnut, could be the remains of a satellite galaxy. Astronomers believe it could hold clues as to how the Milky Way and other galaxies evolved. Giant doughnutAn international team of astronomers looked at images of the Milky...

Ohio trooper's weight puts his job in jeopardy 12/25/02Amanda GarrettPlain Dealer Reporter Trooper Neil Hedrick is a slave to the scales. Every month, he weighs dozens of big rigs for the State Highway Patrol, threatening to park those that are overweight. And every month, the State Highway Patrol weighs Hedrick and 1,506 other troopers, threatening to suspend those who weigh too much. Come New Year's Eve, Hedrick and about nine other state troopers face unpaid suspensions of up to one year. If they don't shape up during that time, they lose their jobs forever. "I've given up," Hedrick said yesterday....

DeKalb County police internal affairs is investigating an incident in which a Cumming man was shot at by a DeKalb officer when police entered his home looking for another suspect.James Cecil Sosebee, 62, said Forsyth County and DeKalb officers came into his home about 2 a.m. on Nov. 6."They didn't knock," Sosebee said. "The first thing I knew they were in my living room."He said he thought it was a prowler and grabbed a deer rifle he keeps by his bed. "They yelled, 'Police officers, police officers, put the gun down!' " said Sosebee. "But a burglar could yell that."...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 34-year-old woman sued Dunkin' Donuts for $20 million on Wednesday, alleging she had punctured her cheek on a hypodermic needle after biting into one of the company's Boston Kreme doughnuts.Janine Zuckermandel of New Hyde Park, New York, who was a saleswoman for a beeper company, claimed in the negligence lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that a doughnut she bought from her local doughnut shop on Aug. 31, contained a needle that cut into the inside of her mouth.Her lawyer, Seth Harris, said she was so "freaked out" over the incident that she lost her...

<p>Guest on the Monday 25 March, 2002 "The O'Reilly Factor" show, Rosie O'Donnell.</p>