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• Eats Beat: Wilson's BBQ is back in Fort Worth

  Bud Kennedy Leroy Wilson is starting all over.After five years of running successful Wilson's BBQ on the west side of Fort Worth, he moved east and opened a tiny takeout stand on Brentwood Stair Road off Loop 820.'The east side needed a barbecue place,' he said, checking the spareribs.He doesn't have many signs.

• All the world's a vase

  By Paige McGlothlin Enjoy the Old World feel of this contemporary-styled vase covered with traditional maps in sepia tones.

• Dallas-Fort Worth filmmakers to take Texas Theatre in new direction

  Some new blood plans to take the Texas Theatre higher tech and ever further from the movie mainstream.

• Robber crawls through drive-through window to steal $400

  By Deanna Boyd FORT WORTH -- A robber who crawled through a store's drive-through window got away with about $400 despite being pelted with a carton of Pepsi cans, police and the store owner said Thursday.'I see what's happening, but it is unbelievable how he got through the window,' said Fares Malalha, owner of the ABC Convenience Store.

• Area briefs: Ex-Fort Worth resident arrested in Louisiana

  Joshua Louis Miner, 20, was named in a second-degree murder warrant.Bail was set at $1 million.

• Murder Anniversary Bittersweet With Recent Arrest

  Share + Sep 2, 2010 4:04 pm US/Central Reporting Marianne Martinez FORT WORTH After almost 26 years, Sharon Hayden Harvey had given up hope that her daughter's murder would be solved.

• Fort Worth officer fired for using excessive force against woman

  Deanna Boyd FORT WORTH -- A Fort Worth police officer has been fired after he was caught on police helicopter video using excessive force against a woman in March who had just led police on a vehicle pursuit, according to a letter filed with the Civil Service Commission on Thursday.Though the woman complied with police orders after finally ...

• Farmers Branch man, 62, convicted of possessing child pornography

  By Deanna Boyd FORT WORTH -- A Farmers Branch man who fled the country in 2007 after being indicted on federal charges of possession of child pornography but later returned -- telling authorities that he'd rather be in prison than Mexico -- is getting his wish.On Friday, a federal jury in Dallas deliberated less than 15 minutes before finding ...

• NC Symphony CEO resigns, takes Texas job

  The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that 42-year-old David Chambless Worters will step down Nov.

• Storms soak Dallas-Fort Worth; more rain on the way tonight

  The thunderstorms that roused many North Texans this morning are expected to churn through the area until about noon.