Keyword: plano
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First it was schools that banned the singing of Christmas carols. Then another banned carols played only by instruments with no lyrics being presented. Now a school district has banned the colors red and green from a "Winter Break Party," requiring parents to bring only white plates and napkins.
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Last year, school officials told 9-year-old Jonathan Morgan he couldn't give classmates Christian-themed candy canes at his elementary school's "winter break" party. On Thursday, a federal judge told him he can. U.S. District Judge Paul Brown in Sherman ordered the 52,000-student Plano school district to let students distribute "religious viewpoint gifts" at school parties scheduled for Friday.
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A religious liberties law firm accused Plano school officials today of violating students' constitutional rights by forbidding them to hand out candy canes and pencils with religious messages on them. Attorneys with the Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute said they planned to file a federal lawsuit claiming the district has an unconstitutional censorship policy that victimizes students.Several parents and students planned to discuss their concerns at an afternoon news conference. Attorneys intended to notify the district of the lawsuit at that time and file the petition later Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sherman.Plano schools spokeswoman Nancy Long did not immediately...
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A morning bank robbery in Richardson turned into an area-wide search for at least two suspects armed with automatic weapons who police said fired on numerous officers during a pursuit. The men are still at large, and by 1 p.m. authorities believed the two men had fled to Wylie, but were unsure what vehicle the men may be driving.
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PLANO; Police were searching for three heavily armed men who fled the scene of a bank robbery in Richardson Thursday morning and fired several shots at pursuing officers. At least three police cars became targets for the gunmen in the minutes following the bold holdup at the American First National Bank at 400 N. Greenville Ave. just one block away from Richardson police headquarters.
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Bobcat captured from patio deck of Plano home Officers now going after three kittens12:05 PM CDT on Thursday, August 19, 2004 Associated Press PLANO – Life is on the wild side beneath the backyard patio deck of Gail Grau's Plano home. Animal control officers called to the home Wednesday captured a mother bobcat. Now, they're going after three bobcat kittens they believe are under the back deck. Animal Trapper Cliff Moore and his crew has removed part of the deck to search for the kittens. Grau said she first noticed the mother about two weeks ago, but didn't call animal...
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Greetings, FReepers!SerpentDove here. I will intersperse photos along with my report. Last night, June 8, 2004, Dallas FReepers had the distinct honor of meeting and dining with the Big Enchilada, Jim Robinson! We met at Cozymel’s Mexican Restaurant in Plano. For those of you who have never met Jim in person, he is everything you would expect and more. Lightning shoots from his eyes and fingertips, and he went around all night telling everyone to “knock it off.” :-))) No, in actuality, Jim is a kind-faced man with smiling eyes, a gentle demeanor, and a sincere laugh. It...
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Perhaps no one person aside from Mel Gibson himself has made a more noteworthy effort to promote "The Passion of The Christ" than a Texas couple who purchased 6,000 tickets to the film and gave them away to the community. Arch Bonnema, a member of the Dallas-area Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, happened to be invited to a preview of The Passion when a friend had to back out at the last minute. The film had such an impact on him that he wanted to share it with as many people as possible. "I have been a Christian all of...
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Bob Ray Sanders - In My Opinion On hearing the radio news or seeing the morning newspaper headline "Bush pardons ex-mayor for role in bank fraud," no doubt many of the president's critics immediately put on their cynical caps. I can imagine them saying, "There he goes again, protecting his rich buddies while turning his back on the little people." Not this critic. I knew there had to be more to the story. There had to be something other than patronage that would prompt the president to make such a potentially controversial decision in this highly charged election year. Without...
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President Bush pardons former Plano mayor03:51 PM CST on Monday, February 16, 2004Associated Press PLANO - President Bush has pardoned a former mayor of this North Dallas suburb who pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 1996. David B. McCall Jr., 79, admitted he was involved in more than $25 million in fraudulent loans made at the Plano Savings and Loan Association, which failed in the mid-1980s. Bush pardoned McCall on Saturday, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. McCall, who is battling cancer, slipped into a coma three days ago, his wife, Nellie, said Monday. She declined to comment on the...
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A man from Wilsonville makes the difficult decision to leave the Episcopalian Church after it consecrates an openly gay bishop The Marine Corps has left its mark on Robert W. Hawkins. He stands, even sits, straight and tall. His graying hair is trimmed close to his head. When he speaks, it is with an abiding sense of authority and that, he'll tell you, is the root of the problem. Hawkins, 48, a resident of Wilsonville and a former major in the Marines, is now a former Episcopalian. He's made the painful decision to walk away from the church that he...
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<p>PLANO, Texas — Dissident Episcopalians upset over the consecration of a gay bishop formed an unprecedented national protest group Tuesday — a network of conservatives who pledged to work with each other and oppose church leadership.</p>
<p>Yet the creation of the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes stopped short of a schism with the Episcopal Church, raising the prospect of church-by-church fights for authority and control.</p>
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<p>PLANO, Texas — Today, a founding group of more than 100 conservative Episcopal leaders will adopt a charter "to give hope to the orthodox of the Episcopal Church, with some sense there is a future."</p>
<p>The closed-door meeting, essentially a constitutional convention to create a "church within a church" for theologically orthodox Episcopalians, will also elect officers, a steering committee and draw up plans for various bishops to offer "adequate Episcopal oversight" to conservative congregations that request it.</p>
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<p>Episcopal conservatives, making good on their threats to form an ecclesiastical and legal shelter for theologically orthodox believers, meet today and tomorrow in a Dallas suburb to hammer out the details.</p>
<p>About 120 people, including bishops and representatives from 12 dioceses, will gather at Christ Episcopal Church in Plano to draw a charter for a "Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes."</p>
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<p>Episcopal Church officials yesterday announced a $3 million shortfall in the church's 2004 budget, caused chiefly by parishes and dioceses withholding funds to protest the ordination of a homosexual bishop.</p>
<p>The shortfall equals 6 percent of the $48 million in revenue the church had expected this year. Church officials, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times, have revised the budget to $45.1 million.</p>
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Man on death row could face new sex charges02:04 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 26, 2003By TIM WYATT / The Dallas Morning News A man serving time for the 1993 abduction-murder of a Plano girl snatched from a soccer field may face new charges of molesting children before an appeals court rules whether his death sentence should be carried out. Acting on information culled from media interviews given by Michael Blair in the last year, Collin County authorities said Tuesday that they filed three charges with Dallas prosecutors that involved two additional victims of the admitted pedophile. “We initiated...
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Man charged in area girls' deaths Ohio child killer suspected in '80s slayings of Christi Meeks, Christie Proctor and Roxann Reyes 05/22/2003 By TIM WYATT and ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News Plano police on Wednesday charged a convicted child killer in Ohio with capital murder in connection with the abduction and slayings of three Dallas-area girls more than 15 years ago. The trail in the strangulation deaths of Christi Lynn Meeks, 5, of Mesquite; Christie Diane Proctor, 9, of Dallas; and Roxann Hope Reyes, 4, of Garland had gone cold. But police revived the cases by bringing three...
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Any Upcoming PRO-Troops, PRO-Bush Rallies in the Dallas/Fort Worth area? If so, where and when?
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Plane lands on Central Expressway 07/31/2002 From Staff Reports A small airplane scheduled to arrive at the Addison Airport early Wednesday morning made an emergency landing on Central Expressway in Plano. Plano police said the plane ran out of gas around 1 a.m. and landed in the southbound lanes of Central near Collin Creek Mall. The pilot, a man, and two women were aboard the four-passenger aircraft. No injuries were reported. The pilot told police he was looking for a place to land, and saw that there was no traffic on the freeway. A wrecker was called in to...
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