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That's not what the crowd wanted. "I like the fact that he's not afraid to speak up," said Cheryl Surber, of Ft. Worth. "He's saying a lot of things that a lot of people want to have said that no Republican has had the male parts, so to speak, to say." "He has energy, he's exciting. I know he's got a big mouth, but people are willing to overlook that big mouth because we feel like he's going to get things done," said Mary Downing, of Dallas, who said she voted for Obama twice. All in all, it was a...

FORT WORTH — Presidential contender Ted Cruz came home Thursday, telling more than 2,000 supporters at the Fort Worth Stockyards that he was the “consistent conservative” needed to move America forward. “All across this country, Americans are waking up. And let me tell you, help is on the way,” the Republican senator said as boisterous supporters waved the Cruz campaign fans given to them to help beat the outdoor heat. Since he was elected in 2012, Cruz has become the most popular Republican in Texas and the face of the state’s tea party movement. He wants to expand his following...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Senator Ted Cruz received a hero’s welcome during the start of his campaign swing through his home state of Texas. The Republican presidential candidate attracted 1500 supporters to the Fort Worth Stockyards Thursday morning. Most of them stood during his entire speech and repeatedly interrupted him with applause and cheers. Texas is the big prize during the Super Tuesday primary on March 1, which is also being called the SEC primary. When asked if he believes he’ll win most of the votes in the Lone Star State, Cruz said, “The political support we’re seeing has been...

FORT WORTH — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz brought an enthusiastic crowd of about 2,000 supporters to their feet Thursday at the Stockyards with his recitation of how he would set about undoing President Barack Obama’s legacy on a very busy first day in the White House. The crowd never sat down. Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, poses for photos after his speech at the Fort Worth Stockyards on Thursday It would be a day to rescind “illegal” executive orders, “rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal,” launch a criminal probe of Planned Parenthood, begin the process...

We hope you’ll join Senator Ted Cruz for a Texas is #CruzCountry Tour tomorrow, Thursday, September 3rd with rallies in Fort Worth, Tyler, and Kingwood!Please note, the Kingwood Freedom Rally is sold out, so if you’ve already RSVPed, we look forward to seeing you tomorrow!Fort Worth Is #CruzCountry Rally with Senator Ted Cruz Doors Open at 10:00am Program at 11:00am Fort Worth Stock YardsUpdated Room: The Back 40 140 E Exchange Ave Fort Worth, TX 76164RSVP HereTyler is #CruzCountry Rally with Senator Ted Cruz Doors Open at 2:00 pm Program Starts at 3:30pm Smith’s Lone Star Event Center 4036 FM2767...

Join Ted Cruz in Texas! Thursday, September 3Fort Worth Is #CruzCountry Rally Doors Open at 10:00am Program begins at 11:00 am Fort Worth Stock Yards Stampede Room 130 E Exchange Ave Fort Worth, TX 76164RSVP HERETyler is #CruzCountry Rally Doors open at 2:00 pm Program begins at 3:30 pm Smith’s Lone Star Event Center 4036 FM 2767 Tyler, TX 75708RSVP HEREKingwood Freedom Rally Doors open at 5:00 pm Program begins at 7:00 pm Sen. Ted Cruz Speaks at 7:45 pm Nathaniel Center 804 Russell Palmer Rd Kingwood, TX 77339RSVP HERE

A police officer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been suspended after video footage emerged that shows him wrestle a bikini-clad girl to the ground and then point his gun at a group of unarmed teenagers. The incident happened after McKinney Police Department received several calls on Friday night about a disturbance near the Craig Ranch North Community Pool. Cell phone footage of the incident shows one officer arrive at the scene and start overreacting in a manner that does little to defuse the situation.

The shootout in Waco that killed nine motorcycle gang members began in the weeks before Christmas with a beating at a Toys for Tots event in Wise County and a murder in Fort Worth, according to law enforcement sources. The backdrop is a growing turf battle between the Bandidos – which has controlled Texas for years – and the Cossacks, a lesser-known biker gang that has been gaining power by aligning itself with Bandido rivals, the sources said. On Dec. 12, 10 Bandidos burst into Gator’s bar in Fort Worth and "without saying a word, started punching and attacking people,"...

With the appalling apostasy, both overt and subtle, engulfing many evangelical churches in these last days, I have found myself in search of a truly Bible-believing church body that is serious about the Truth taught by God through Jesus Christ. To be specific, these are the things I am trying to avoid: - The cultish "mega-church" mentality (though size doesn't not necessarily disqualify an otherwise orthodox church culture) - Any sympathy, working agreement, or tacit acknowledgement of any Christian legitimacy with Rome. - The hyper "grace only" heresy of the need just to "believe on Jesus Christ," nothing else matters...

A Fort Worth funeral home is being forced to return a coffin that held the body of Lee Harvey Oswald to his brother after attempting to sell it for $87,468, according to news reports. By concealing the coffin’s existence from Oswald’s family members and later offering it for sale, Allen S. Baumgardner Sr., the owner of Baumgardner Funeral Home, engaged “wrongful and wanton and malicious conduct” Judge Donald J. Cosby of the District Court in Fort Worth ruled, according to the New York Times. Oswald was originally buried in the pine bluff casket after killing President John F. Kennedy on...

Relief that the man whom they say stalked and harassed their family for years was finally gone.

Hours after his younger brother Lee Harvey Oswald, the presidential assassin, was gunned down in the basement of the Dallas police station, Robert Oswald wrote a $710 cashier’s check to a Fort Worth funeral home as he made arrangements for his brother’s burial. The purchase included a No. 31 Pine Bluff coffin and vault, a dark suit and flowers. More than five decades later, the simple pine coffin — now badly deteriorating — is at the heart of an unlikely epilogue to the drama that gripped the nation on Nov. 22, 1963. Three days after he assassinated President Kennedy from...

Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking By Matt Taibbi | November 6, 2014 "It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street," she says. "I thought, 'I can't sit by any longer.'" Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported – more on that later) to keep the public from hearing. Back in 2006, as a...

An email sent out to the Alcon staff by its CEO reportedly said that the ebola nurse’s boyfriend was admitted into hospital with “Ebola-like symptoms.” Gotnews.com has received word from two different Alcon employees, both of whom asked not to be identified. Alcon’s U.S. headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas. It is an opthomological pharmaceutical company....

FULL TITLE: EXCLUSIVE: HHS Bankrolled Catholic and Baptist Church from 2010 to 2013 to Prepare for Obama’s 2014 Invasion!//// A month or two ago news broke that Obama’s HHS was calling for private contractors to help transport illegal aliens throughout the interior United States. What made this already big news even bigger is the fact that the original call for proposals came out in January, long before the bulk of the illegal alien surge began. The breaking news you’re about to read is ten times bigger, because the following proves the Obama administration was bankrolling America’s churches back in 2010....

FORT WORTH — Police and U.S. Postal Service officials are investigating a complaint by a Meadowbrook area couple that a mail carrier fatally injured their Yorkshire terrier by hitting him with a rock. The 5-year-old dog named Maxwell wandered across the street from his owners’ residence in the 3600 block of Hazeline Road about 11 a.m. Saturday, Maxwell’s owner, Lawrence Brown, said Monday. Brown, 46, said he was in the garage and didn’t realize Maxwell was across the street when he heard a dog yelping in pain. As he walked toward the street, Brown saw the mail carrier and asked,...

South Korea has formally decided to purchase 40 F-35 stealth fighter jets for $6.7 billion, South Korea and Lockheed Martin officials announced Monday. The commitment by South Korea, which is boosting its air defenses amid ongoing tensions in the Pacific region, marks a "big day" for the F-35 program in Fort Worth, said Steve O'Bryan, Lockheed's vice president for F-35 business development. "This is a two-year process that Korea held, an open competition where they looked at capabilities, their defense needs, the price as well as the timing and they chose the F-35. It was another open, transparent process that...

FORT WORTH — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz revved up more than 800 supporters in the Fort Worth Stockyards on Wednesday night as he offered support to a tea party candidate in a runoff for a State Senate seat.Cruz spent a little more than an hour at the Stockyards, arriving to loud applause, and firing up the crowd with his usual talk of grassroots support and criticism of Democrats.He was officially in town to back Konni Burton, who is running against Dr. Mark Shelton for State Senate District 10 — the one being vacated by Wendy Davis as she runs for...

"Judge Jean Boyd again decided to give no jail time for Ethan Couch, defense attorney Reagan Wynn and prosecutors told reporters after the hearing, which was closed to the public. Prosecutors had asked Boyd to sentence him to 20 years in state custody on charges related to two people who were severely injured."

A grand jury in Tarrant County, Texas has decided not to indict the rookie police officer who shot dead a homeowner while investigating a burglary at the wrong address. Last May, R.A. 'Alex' Hoeppner and his partner Benjamin Hanlon accidentally started searching 72-year-old Jerry Waller's property, confusing it in the dark for a house across the street. Waller was in bed with his wife Kathy at the time, and was stirred by the police officer's flashlights. Fearing a prowler was outside, he grabbed his .35-caliber-pistol and went to investigate. According to a search warrant affidavit released by the Star-Telegram in...